This official White House photograph shows US President Barack Obama (R) meeting with Armenian Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandian (L), Swiss Foreign Minister (and mediator) Micheline Calmy-Rey (2L), Turkish undersecretary of the foreign ministry Ertugul Apakan (C), and Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan (2R) during a reception in Istanbul, Turkey on April 6, 2009. The President met with the foreign ministers to commend them on recent progress in Armenia-Turkey normalization and urged them to complete an agreement between those two important countries. Getty Images logo Getty Images 7 months ago

This official White House photograph shows US President Barack Obama (R) meeting with Armenian Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandian (L), Swiss Foreign Minister (and mediator) Micheline Calmy-Rey (2L), Turkish undersecretary of the foreign ministry Ertugul Apakan (C), and Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan (2R) during a reception in Istanbul, Turkey on April 6, 2009. The President met with the foreign ministers to commend them on recent progress in Armenia-Turkey normalization and urged them to complete an agreement between those two important countries.

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  2. ISTANBUL, TURKEY - OCTOBER 6: In this handout image supplied by the IMF, International Monetary Fund's Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan (L), Chairman of the Board of Governors Nguyen Van Giau (2nd L), World Bank President Robert Zoellick (C), Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (2nd R), International Monetary Fund's Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (R) pose prior to attending the Opening Plenary of the 2009 IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings at the Istanbul Congress Center on October 6, 2009 in Istanbul, Turkey. The 2009 Annual Meetings of the Boards of Governors of the World Bank Group and the IMF will be held on October 6-7 to discuss the future work of the two institutions and were preceded by meetings of the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC), the Development Committee.

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