WASHINGTON (HRNW) – Turkey hopes for a positive start with US President-elect Joe Biden, a senior official said Wednesday, after pre-election friction as the Democrat criticized President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
“We believe we can have a good start with the Biden administration,” Ibrahim Kalin, Erdogan s spokesman, told a virtual event at the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
Biden “knows our president personally” and “I believe he and his team appreciate Turkey s geopolitical and strategic value,” Kalin said from Azerbaijan, where he was visiting.
Biden caused a stir during the campaign by telling The New York Times that the United States should embolden rivals to defeat the “autocrat” Erdogan.
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