{"id":4881,"date":"2020-11-11T12:09:46","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T12:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/?p=4881"},"modified":"2020-11-11T12:27:44","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T12:27:44","slug":"turkeys-erdogan-belatedly-joins-leaders-congratulating-biden-urges-closer-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/2020\/11\/11\/turkeys-erdogan-belatedly-joins-leaders-congratulating-biden-urges-closer-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey\u2019s Erdogan belatedly joins leaders congratulating Biden, urges closer ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"city\">TurKey<\/span><span class=\"country\">&#8211;<\/span>Turkish President\u00a0Recep\u00a0Tayyip Erdogan\u00a0on Tuesday congratulated Joe Biden on his victory over Donald Trump in the US presidential election, urging closer ties between the two NATO allies.<\/p>\n<p>Erdogan\u2019s statement came a full three days after US media called the election in Biden\u2019s favor, underscoring the close personal bond the Turkish leader enjoyed with Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Erdogan\u2019s statement came a full three days after US media called the election in Biden\u2019s favor, underscoring the close personal bond the Turkish leader enjoyed with Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI congratulate you on your election success and convey my sincere wishes for the peace and welfare of the US people,\u201d Erdogan said in a statement published by his office, urging \u201cstrong cooperation\u201d between the sides.<\/p>\n<p>Other issues standing between Ankara and Washington include Turkey\u2019s purchase of a high-tech Russian missile defense system, and US refusal to extradite a Muslim cleric Erdogan blames for staging a failed 2016 coup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe challenges we face today, on the global and regional levels, require us to further develop and strengthen those relations, which are based in mutual interests and shared values,\u201d\u00a0Erdogan\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish officials have been\u00a0 alarmed by an intervew Biden gave to The New York Times in December in which he called Erdogan an \u201cautocrat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"fi_inContectMark\">Biden criticized the Turkish leader\u2019s policies towards the Kurds and said Washington needed to \u201cembolden\u201d his rivals to allow them \u201cto take on and defeat Erdogan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"fi_inContectMark\">Erdogan\u2019s spokesman said in August that the remarks showed \u201cpure ignorance, arrogance and hypocrisy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"fi_inContectMark\">The Turkish leader did not directly address them in his statement Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look forward to working with both of you to further strengthen the special alliance between the US and Israel,\u201d Netanyahu said.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts pointed out that in his tweets and subsequent remarks to the cabinet, Netanyahu, like Erdogan, did not address Biden as \u201cpresident-elect\u201d and did not explicitly state that the former vice president and Delaware senator had won the elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fi_inContectMark\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TurKey&#8211;Turkish President\u00a0Recep\u00a0Tayyip Erdogan\u00a0on Tuesday congratulated Joe Biden on his victory over Donald Trump in the US presidential election, urging closer ties between the two NATO allies. Erdogan\u2019s statement came a full three days after US media called the election in Biden\u2019s favor, underscoring the close personal bond the Turkish leader enjoyed with Trump. Erdogan\u2019s statement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4881"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4896,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4881\/revisions\/4896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}