With Turkey's prospects for joining the European Union growing more elusive and the country reaching out to predominantly Muslim countries with a vigor not seen in years, a longstanding question is vexing the United States and Europe: Is this large, secular Muslim country turning East instead of West?

President Barack Obama hailed the Armenia-Turkey protocols and pledged US support for the process as Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erodagan, on the eve of his meeting with the president,...

WASHINGTON (AP)- The Obama administration is urging Congress to hold off on voting to approve a resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide.

President Obama, once again, refused to recognize the Armenian genocide in his annual message on this the 95th anniversary of the genocide. This marks the second year that he has broken his campaign pledge to properly recognise the genocide.

US President Barack Obama has urged Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev to do a better job protecting human rights in his country during a rare face-to-face meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.

WASHINGTON-US President Barack Obama spoke by telephone with Turkish President Abdullah Gul on Sunday before leaving Washington for arms reduction talks in Moscow with his Russian counterpart Dmitri Medvedev, the White House reported.