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Turkish flags and banners depicting Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, decorate a street outside the United States embassy in Ankara, Turkey, Sunday, April 25, 2021. Turkey's foreign ministry has summoned the U.S. Ambassador in Ankara to protest the U.S. decision to mark the deportation and killing of Armenians during the Ottoman Empire as &quot;genocide.&quot; On Saturday, U.S. President Joe Biden followed through on a campaign promise to recognize the events that began in 1915 and killed an estimated 1.5 million Ottoman Armenians as genocide. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Turkey summons US ambassador over genocide announcement

By Zeynep Bilginsoy - Associated Press

Turkish flags decorate a street outside the United States embassy in Ankara, Turkey, Sunday, April 25, 2021. Turkey's foreign ministry has summoned the U.S. Ambassador in Ankara to protest the U.S. decision to mark the deportation and killing of Armenians during the Ottoman Empire as "genocide." On Saturday, U.S. President Joe Biden followed through on a campaign promise to recognize the events that began in 1915 and killed an estimated 1.5 million Ottoman Armenians as genocide. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Turkey summons U.S. ambassador after Biden declaration on Armenian genocide

By Dave Boyer and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE -- In this April 8, 2021 file photo Italian Premier Mario Draghi speaks during a press conference in Rome . Turkey demanded Friday that Italy's premier apologize for having called President Tayyip Erdogan a “dictator,” adding fuel to the scandal over the perceived seating snub of the European Commission president and deepening the EU-Turkey rift at the precise moment both sides were hoping for rapprochement. (Riccardo Antimiani/Pool Photo via AP)

Turkey demands apology after Draghi calls Erdogan a dictator

By NICOLE WINFIELD and SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press

EU top officials to meet Turkish president next week

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A protester from the Uyghur community living in Turkey waves a Turkish flag during a protest against the visit of China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi to Turkey, in Istanbul, Thursday, March 25, 2021. Hundreds of Uyghurs staged protests in Istanbul and the capital Ankara, denouncing Wang Yi's visit to Turkey and demanding that the Turkish government take a stronger stance against human rights abuses in China's far-western Xinjiang region. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Uyghurs in Turkey protest Chinese foreign minister’s visit

By MEHMET GUZEL and SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, March 20, 2016 file photo, the sun rises as migrants and refugees on a dinghy arrive at the shore of the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos, after crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey. Five years on, the deal between European Union and Turkey is no longer working but at a summit next week EU leaders will discuss ways to improve relations with Turkey and could try to revive the agreement. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)

5 years on, stalled EU Turkey migrant deal remains a model

By LORNE COOK and SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press

Turkey says Greek FM to visit Ankara next month

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Muhammed Emin, a member of the Uighur community, looks outside in his bakery in Istanbul's Zeytinburnu neighborhood, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021. Because of shared cultural ties, Turkey has long been a safe haven for the Uighurs, a Turkic group native to China's far west Xinjiang region. Opposition legislators in Turkey are accusing Ankara's leaders of secretly selling out Uighurs to China in exchange for coronavirus vaccines. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Turkey Uighurs fear sellout to China in exchange for vaccine

By Dake Kang and Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

Turkey seeks arrest of judges, prosecutors over coup ties

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Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, left, and European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell give a joint statement prior to their meeting in Brussels, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021. (Stephanie Lecocq/Pool Photo via AP)

Turkey launches charm offensive to ease tensions with EU

Associated Press

Germany, Turkey seek better EU-Turkish ties as tensions ease

By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY - Associated Press

Military vehicles and equipment, parts of the S-400 air defense systems, are unloaded from a Russian transport aircraft, at Murted military airport in Ankara, Turkey, Friday, July 12, 2019. (Turkish Defence Ministry via AP, Pool) ** FILE **

U.S. sanctions Turkey over the acquisition of Russian S-400 missile defense system

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019 file photo, a truck carrying parts of the S-400 air defense systems, exits a Russian transport aircraft after landing at Murted military airport outside Ankara, Turkey. NATO-member Turkey has tested its Russian-made advanced air defense missile system, Turkish media reports said Friday, Oct. 16, 2020, raising the specter of a new standoff with the United States. (Turkish Defence Ministry via AP, Pool, File)

US sanctions NATO ally Turkey over Russian missile defense

By MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan talks during a joint news conference with Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev, in Baku, Azerbaijan, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020. Following the approval of European leaders Friday Dec. 11, 2020 of expanding sanctions against Ankara, Turkey called on the European Union to act as an 'honest mediator' in its dispute with EU members Greece and Cyprus over the exploration of gas reserves in the Mediterranean. The leaders said early Friday that Turkey has &quot;engaged in unilateral actions and provocations and escalated its rhetoric against the EU.&quot;&quot;(Turkish Presidency via AP, Pool)

Turkey summons Iranian ambassador over Azeri poem tensions

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Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias talks to the media during a press conference after a meeting with his Cyprus counterpart Nicos Christodoulides at the foreign ministry house in divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Dec. 4, 2020. Dendias and Christodoulides were meeting to coordinate their course of action ahead of a summit of European Union leaders next week to decide on a Turkish hydrocarbons search in waters where Cyprus and Greece claim exclusive rights and which EU officials have called &quot; provocative&quot;and &quot;unlawful.&quot; (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, Pool)

Greek FM: Turkey’s moves to ease tensions ‘unconvincing’

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2020 file photo, Turkey's research vessel Oruc Reis is anchored off the coast of Antalya on the Mediterranean Sea in Turkey. In a tweet Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, Turkey’s energy ministry said the Oruc Reis had returned to port in Antalya after completing two-dimensional seismic research in the Demre field. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici, File)

Turkish research ship in port after Mediterranean survey

By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY - Associated Press

Protesters hold placards with a depiction of Eiffel Tower in Paris, right, marked with a shoe stamp a sign of disrespect, and one, left with a slogan reading in Turkish: "May my mother and father be sacrificed in your name, Prophet!", during a protest by members of Islamic groups against France in Istanbul, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020. There had been tension between France and Turkey after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said France's President Emmanuel Macron needed mental health treatment and made other comments that the French government described as unacceptably rude. Erdogan questioned his French counterpart's mental condition while criticizing Macron's attitude toward Islam and Muslims. (AP Photo)

Recep Tayyip Erdogan interference worries Turkey friends, angers foes

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

People attend funeral of fighters killed in an airstrike in the town of Idlib, Syria, Monday, Oct. 26, 2020. An airstrike on a rebel training camp in northwestern Syria on Monday killed dozens of Turkish-backed fighters and wounded nearly as many, in one of the heaviest blows to the opposition's strongest groups, a spokesman and a war monitor said. (AP Photo)

Turkey-backed Syria fighters retaliate for deadly airstrike

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades, center, Greece's Prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, left, and Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi clad due during their meeting at the presidential palace in capital Nicosia, Cyprus, on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020. The leaders of Cyprus, Egypt and Greece meet in the Cypriot capital for talks on forging closer ties and boosting cooperation on issues including energy following the discovery of gas deposits in the east Mediterranean. (Iakovos Hatzistavrou Pool via AP)

Cyprus, Greece, Egypt to Turkey: drop the rancor, join us

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS - Associated Press

Turkey evacuates large military post in northwest Syria

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press