‘Arrogance and hypocrisy’: Turkey bashes Biden over resurfaced comments about Erdogan

Published August 17, 2020 10:03pm ET



Turkish officials are upset at Joe Biden after a monthsold video of him criticizing President Recep Tayyip Erdogan resurfaced over the weekend.

During a New York Times interview in December, Biden called Erdogan an “autocrat” and advocated for the United States to embolden Turkish opposition “to be able to take on and defeat Erdogan. Not by a coup, not by a coup, but by the electoral process.”

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