Pres. Joe Biden plans to tell Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a morning meeting at the Group of 20 summit that the two nations need to find ways to avoid crises with each other.
U.S. President Joe Biden, left, shakes hands with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ahead of the opening session of the G20 summit at the La Nuvola conference center, in Rome, Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021. The two-day Group of 20 summit is the first in-person gathering of leaders of the world's biggest economies since the COVID-19 pandemic started.
Turkey's role as a NATO ally has come under sharp scrutiny in recent weeks. Erdogan at an Oct. 23 rally said that 10 foreign ambassadors who called for the release of a jailed philanthropist should be declared persona non grata. The envoys, including the U.S., French and German representatives, had previously issued a statement seeking to resolve the case of Osman Kavala, a businessman and philanthropist held in prison since 2017 despite not having been convicted of a crime.
The two leaders didn’t meet for bilateral talks on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly. Since Biden became president, they have met only in June at a NATO summit where they discussed the possibility of Turkey securing and operating the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. But those plans evaporated as the Taliban the swiftly took control of Afghanistan amid the U.S. military departure.
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