US President Joe Biden is assembly with Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on the G20 summit website in Rome on Sunday.
In a brief picture op earlier than the assembly, President Biden stated he’s planning to have a “good dialog” together with his Turkish counterpart in Rome.
Talking Sunday alongside Erdoğan, Biden would not reply questions on whether or not he deliberate to boost human rights or whether or not he believed Turkey was too near Russia.
Forward of the sit-down, a senior administration official stated Biden would warn Erdogan that “precipitous motion just isn’t going to profit the US-Turkey partnership and alliance.” Officers stated regional points like Syria and Libya can be up for dialogue.
The US-Turkey relationship has grown tense in recent times. Turkey’s buy of a Russian air protection system has contributed to the pressure.
The sit-down comes a few week after Erdoğan ordered 10 ambassadors — together with these from the US, France, and Germany — be declared “persona non grata” after calling for the discharge of jailed Turkish businessman and philanthropist Osman Kavala.
The 2 leaders final met one-on-one in June at NATO headquarters in Brussels, a gathering which Biden stated was “positive and productive.” It was a carefully watched assembly after Biden in April grew to become the primary US president in a long time to recognize the bloodbath of Armenians underneath the Ottoman Empire as a genocide — a transfer that risked a possible fracture with Turkey however signaled a dedication to international human rights.
