European foreign policy of the Barack Obama administration signal to the Muslim world and firmly anchor the country in Europe. The trip marked Obama's first visit to a Muslim majority country. Obama has asserted that a close relationship with a stable, democratic, Western-oriented Republic of Turkey is an important U.S. national interest. His administration declared that the U.S. will support the promotion of democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression in Turkey and support its efforts to join the European Union, which the president confirmed on his April visit. While Obama has gone on the record in the past as referring to the massacre of Armenians under the
Barak Sultan death of Barak Sultan opened opportunities to expand Russian Empire over the Kazakh Steppe. https://books.google.com/books?id=BbRsMq03dh0C&pg=PA45&lpg=PA45&dq=barak+sultan&source=bl&ots=MQqmazwEGL&sig=gdut03JOhbqo2M9xFKeur3TMGSM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjztqL12cHLAhWBZiYKHYXHBp4Q6AEIMTAF#v=onepage&q=barak%20sultan&f=false Barak Sultan Barak Sultan (; 1731–1750) was a descendant of Genghis Khan and a member of the last House of Genghis Khan in human history in Kazakh Khanate (1221-1847). He was Sultan of the Middle Juz. He is a son of Tursun Khan and great grandfather of Alikhan Bukeikhanov. Barak Sultan was notable for having murdered his rival beheading the first Kazakh Khan in Kazakh history who took citizenship of Russia - Khan of Junior Juz Abulkhair Khan. It was revenge for Abulkhair Khan's pro-Russian