Genocide denial
Attempt to deny the scale and severity of genocide
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| June 2025 | Erdoğan condemned Israeli strikes on Iran as 'state terrorism'. |
| February 18 2025 | Stated that Turkey would be an 'ideal host' for potential talks between Russia, Ukraine, and the USA, emphasizing Turkey's position as a 'reliable mediator' for both countries. |
| 2024 | Yael Eisenstat, head of the ADL's Center for Technology and Society, resigned, with anonymous sources suggesting her departure was due to disagreements with leadership's policies. |
| 2024 | ADL presented Jared Kushner an award for his work on the Abraham Accords, a decision that was criticized by both ADL supporters and board members. |
| 2024 | According to Georgetown University's Bridge Initiative, the ADL's CEO made an offensive analogy comparing the Palestinian keffiyeh to the Nazi swastika. |
| 2024 | The ADL asserted that Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) had violated federal law concerning material support for Hamas, a claim criticized by The Nation, The Intercept, ACLU, and CAIR as unsubstantiated. |
| 2024 |
Ilham Aliyev
Wins presidential election, continuing his long-standing presidency.
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| June 2024 | The English Wikipedia community reached a consensus that the ADL was 'generally unreliable' on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a decision the ADL condemned and which was also criticized by over 40 Jewish organizations. |
| March 8 2024 | Declared his intention to retire once his presidential term ends in 2028. |
| February 2024 | ADL's media and entertainment institute appointed documentary producer and journalist Deborah Camiel as its leader. |
| January 2024 | ADL reports over 3,283 antisemitic incidents in the United States since October 7, 2023, with two-thirds tied to the Gaza war, including the classification of anti-war protests by Jewish groups as 'anti-Israel'. |
| January 2024 | Two ADL staff members quit the organization in response to its pro-Israel advocacy during the Israel-Hamas war. |
| January 25 2024 | Erdoğan formally signed and approved the Turkish parliament's decision to ratify Swedish NATO membership. |
| 2023 | Erdoğan openly spoke against LGBT people, declaring his Coalition 'are against the LGBT' and accusing the Turkish opposition of being LGBT. He blamed LGBTQ+ people for 'undermining family values' and used derogatory language towards his political opponents. |
| 2023 | ADL released a report indicating white supremacists were responsible for 45% of right-wing extremism in the US from 2017 to 2022. |
| December 2023 | ADL ended its long-running anti-bias education program A World of Difference (AWOD), removing curricula materials and reassigning or laying off staff. |
| December 5 2023 | ADL supported a US Congress resolution that officially described anti-Zionism as antisemitism. |
| November 15 2023 | Erdoğan condemned Israel as a 'terrorist state' and accused it of committing genocide against Palestinians. |
| October 2023 | Inaugurated the first church built with government backing in Turkey since the end of the Ottoman state. |
| October 2023 | The ADL sent letters to almost 200 college presidents condemning Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapters, alleging potential links to Hamas funding. National SJP organization denied these claims. |
| October 25 2023 | Erdoğan stated that Hamas is not a terrorist organization but a liberation group fighting to protect Palestinian lands and people. |
| October 23 2023 | Erdoğan approved Sweden's pending NATO membership bid and sent the accession protocol to the Turkish Parliament for ratification. |
| October 7 2023 | Following the Hamas attack, ADL significantly broadened its definition of antisemitic incidents, including anti-war protest events in its tally of over 3,283 antisemitic incidents in the United States. |
| September 2023 | Erdoğan announced a potential rupture in Turkey's relations with the European Union during the EU membership process. |
| September 2023 | ADL launched a media and entertainment institute aimed at combating antisemitism and improving depictions of Jewish people in entertainment. |
| September 2023 |
Ilham Aliyev
Azerbaijan initiated a military offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh, resulting in the surrender of the self-declared Republic of Artsakh and the mass displacement of over 100,000 ethnic Armenians from the region.
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| May 28 2023 | Won the presidential election runoff against Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, receiving 52.18% of the vote. |
| April 1 2023 | Erdoğan confirmed and signed the Turkish Grand National Assembly's ratification of Finnish NATO membership, sealing Finland's entry to NATO. |
| March 23 2023 | The Turkish parliament's foreign relations committee confirmed Finnish NATO membership application and sent the process to parliament's plenary session. |
| February 6 2023 | A catastrophic earthquake struck south-central Turkey and northwestern Syria, killing more than 50,000 people during Erdoğan's administration. |
| January 2023 | The ADL attempted to pressure Bard College to cancel a course titled 'Apartheid in Israel-Palestine' taught by Nathan Thrall, which was also opposed by an Israeli consul. Bard's president Leon Botstein characterized the interaction with ADL CEO Greenblatt as 'not civil'. |
| 2022 | Revised its definition of racism to focus on more favorable treatment based on race or ethnicity. |
| 2022 | Reiterated Turkey's stance that Russia must return Crimea to Ukraine in accordance with international law. |
| 2022 | Responds to the Russian invasion of Ukraine by closing the Bosphorus to Russian naval reinforcements, brokers a grain export deal between Russia and Ukraine, and mediates a prisoner exchange. |
| 2022 | ADL revised its definition of racism to focus on favorable treatment based on race or ethnicity. |
| 2022 | ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt delivered a speech to ADL leaders asserting that 'anti-Zionism is antisemitism', which sparked internal controversy and disagreement within the organization. |
| 2022 | ADL's CEO denounced Jewish Voice for Peace and Students for Justice in Palestine as the 'photo inverse of the extreme right', a statement condemned by over 50 American Muslim and civil rights groups. |
| 2022 | ADL criticized the Israeli government formed by Benjamin Netanyahu in his sixth term, specifically highlighting concerns about the inclusion of far-right parties Otzma Yehudit and Religious Zionist Party, led by Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich. |
| 2022 | The United Nations Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect issued a policy paper linking genocide denial to hate speech, providing recommendations for states and UN officials on addressing genocide denial. |
| November 2022 | ADL acquired JLens, a pro-Israel advocacy group that campaigns against economic disengagement with Israel in ESG investing guidelines. |
| September 21 2022 | Mediated a prisoner exchange resulting in the release of 215 Ukrainian soldiers, including Azovstal Iron and Steel Works defenders, with the freed captives to remain in Turkey until the war's end. |
| August 2022 | Turkey and Israel agreed to restore diplomatic relations. |
| August 22 2022 |
Ilham Aliyev
Received the Order of the Golden Eagle from Kazakhstan.
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| July 22 2022 | Brokered a deal with the United Nations to facilitate grain exports from Ukrainian ports, addressing the 2022 food crisis. |
| June 2022 | Launched his campaign for the 2023 presidential election, which was contested by the opposition for potentially violating constitutional term limits. |
| May 2022 | Erdoğan voiced opposition to Finland and Sweden joining NATO, accusing them of tolerating groups Turkey considers terrorist organizations. |
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