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Erdogan avoids escalating genocide dispute with Biden

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan makes a speech at a past event. [AFP]

Despite its fury with the United States for calling the Ottoman massacre of Armenians a genocide, Turkey is for now avoiding a showdown which could hurt its fragile economy and scupper hopes of better ties with US-allied Arab states.

President Tayyip Erdogan angrily condemned Joe Biden’s characterisation of the killings a century ago, saying the US president should “look in the mirror” and examine the fate of Native Americans wiped out by settlers who founded his country.

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