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Biden erdogan. Biden who called erdogan an autocrat last december is expected to be tougher on turkey particularly over its weakening of human rights and democratic norms and could impose sanctions over. Biden has said little. In remarks that drew sharp criticism from ankara biden in december advocated a new approach to the autocrat erdogan and fretted over close turkish cooperation with russia. When he served as obama s vice president biden repeatedly met with erdogan who was both prime minister and president at the time and had adopted an attitude that was not prone to surprises.
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Paula tsoni oct 13 2020. The animosity between erdogan and biden runs deep rogin said citing an alleged incident after biden met opposition figures in turkey. One such hedge was turkey s testing of the russian. According to a poll by fox tv an ardent defender of president donald trump he is 8 points ahead.
The difference is more than what hillary clinton appeared to have over trump in polls four years ago. As world leaders including greece s kyriakos mitsotakis rushed to congratulate joe biden for his victory in the 2020 presidential elections turkey s president recep tayyip erdogan remained silent. Some of his more assertive policies may in fact be designed to hedge against the uncertainty of a joe biden presidency which appears to be the likely outcome as we go to press. Democrat candidates joe biden and kamala harris.
Biden has indicated that he would take a more assertive stance on turkey telling the new york times that erdoğan has to pay a price. Nov 6 2020 americans may be glued to the televisions and social media but turkish president recep tayyip erdogan is not taking the week off for the us election. In 2016 turkish strongman recep tayyip erdogan asked then vice president joe biden to lean on federal prosecutors who were investigating a turkish bank for financial crimes and to hand over a.