Turkey summons US ambassador after Biden recognizes Armenian genocide
By Zeynep Bilginsoy
House votes overwhelmingly to recognize Armenian genocide
Historians estimate that up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed around World War I, and many scholars see it as the 20th century s first genocide.
ISTANBUL (AP) - 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.
Deputy Foreign Minister Sedat Onal met with David Satterfield late Saturday to express Ankara’s strong condemnation. The statement does not have legal ground in terms of international law and has hurt the Turkish people, opening a wound that’s hard to fix in our relations, the ministry said.
Turkey summons US ambassador after Biden recognizes Armenian genocide
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Arturo Di Modica, Sculptor Of Wall Street Bronze Bull Sculpture, Dies Aged 80
Arturo Di Modica, the Italian artist who sculpted the “charging bull” in New York has died at the age of 80 in his hometown of Vittoria in Italy.
Arturo Di Modica, the man who sculpted the charging bull in New York has died at the age of 80 in his hometown of Vittoria in Italy. The celebrated artist had been ill for some time and finally succumbed to bad health late on Friday, February 19. It was in 1989, that the artist had installed the bronze statue in the New York s Financial District and since then it had become a symbol of American economic resilience.