it is being said that the President is thinking of reneging on a pre-election pledge to call the Armenian genocide of 1915 what it was, genocide, because the votes of Armenian-Americans are not worth as much as the good will of Turkey in the Middle East. Wrong, Barry O. Turkey is moving on this issue - about four years ago I personally heard the then Foreign Minister of Turkey refer to it as a "ma...

Ankara has frozen its efforts to strengthen defence, energy and trade ties after a congressional panel labelled the Ottoman-era killing of Armenians as 'genocide', Turkey's minister for foreign trade said

Congress has avoided a diplomatic clash with an important ally, Turkey, by deciding not to take up a resolution declaring the mass killings of Armenians in the early 20th century a genocide.

The poverty industry is big business and those within it require an endless conveyor belt of OTT headlines to keep their snouts in the taxpayer trough. "There were calls today for child poverty to be tackled as the Government confirmed that almost 100,000 children in Northern Ireland are still living in deprivation. 100,000 children - wow, that's a huge figure! And all fantasy, of course. The...

Turkey vehemently denies massacre of Armenians in what was then the eastern frontiers of the crumbling Ottoman empire, amounted to genocide

With Turkey as a member, the European Union would become "the most important peace project in world history," Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan claimed during an official visit to France yesterday (7 April). EurActiv France and EurActiv Turkey report.

Turkey and Armenia signed a landmark peace accord on Saturday (10 October) to restore ties and open their shared border after a century of hostility stemming from the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman forces in the First World War. But the next day a speech by Turkey's prime minister made the agreement seem problematic.

The US ambassador to Turkey has been summoned to the foreign ministry in Ankara after a congressional panel approved describing the Ottoman-era massacres of Armenians as genocide

There is some good news coming out of Washington tonight: The House Foreign Affairs Committee voted narrowly on Thursday to condemn as genocide the mass killings of Armenians early in the last century, defying a last-minute plea from the Obama administration to forgo a vote that seemed sure to offend Turkey {...} The vote on the nonbinding resolution, a perennial point of friction addressing a dar...

Is Turkey going to end its bid for accession to the European Union? This is the way it looks after the opening of the NATO summit, where Turkey seems to have vetoed the candidacy of Danish premier Anders Fogh Rasmussen to become the next Secretary General. The Turkish reforms were already down to snail’s pace, so perhaps Turkey’s prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has just decided to ...