Tagged: Recep Tayyip Erdogan

21st July 2021

Erdogan presses hard line on Cyprus, pushes to reopen ghost town

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan insisted Tuesday on a two-state solution in Cyprus and threw his weight behind plans for a coastal resort that was emptied of its original Greek Cypriot residents to be...

United States / Middle East Monitor

4th June 2021

Biden’s Use of the G-Word Furthers Turkey’s Isolation

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: President Joe Biden’s use of the word “genocide” on Armenian Remembrance Day was not a game-changer in US-Turkish relations, which are plagued by more fundamental problems. But it enhances Turkey’s political isolation, weakens its arguments on whether...

United States / Middle East Monitor

19th May 2021

US condemns Erdogan ‘anti-Semitic’ remarks

The United States on Tuesday sharply criticized Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for what it called “anti-Semitic” remarks amid his denunciations of Israel’s strikes in Gaza. “The United States strongly condemns President Erdogan’s recent...