Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with US President Barack Obama on December 7 to discuss Turkey-Iran cooperation and a number of other regional issues, specifically normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations and opening of the border between the two countries, Тoday's Zaman reported

Nevertheless, as reported by The Kansas City Star, speaking through an interpreter, in an ornate hotel room crowded with Turkish reporters, Erdogan sidestepped questions about whether he explicitly raised the Armenian genocide resolution issue with Obama.