Joe Biden

Turkey and the US have agreed on many issues in Syria and Iraq, but not on the status of the PYDTurkey and the United States are singing the same tune on a number of key regional issues including a Turkish military camp on Iraqi soil and the total closure of a key stretch of the Turkish border with Syria, but they remain in disagreement over the Democratic Union Party (PYD) in northern Syria, f

Nobody was expecting a meeting of the minds and hearts, but it seems that U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's visit to Turkey went worse than expected. The most controversial topics were the disagreement on the inclusion of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) in the Geneva meeting regarding the future of Syria and exposed differences on the understanding of democratic freedoms.

Conducting terrorist propaganda is beyond the limits of free speech, President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has stressed during a meeting with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, a day after the latter emphasized the need for freedom of speech and press in Turkey in an address to NGOs and reporters.  

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said on Jan. 23 that Washington recognized the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Turkey was as much of a threat to Ankara as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
(ISIL), condemning it as "a terror group plain and simple."

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has responded to U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's recent remarks over differentiating the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Democratic Union Party (PYD) in northern Syria.

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, who is scheduled to meet with Turkish Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu on Jan. 23, highlighted the need for freedom of speech and press in his address to NGOs and reporters on Jan. 22, as he also backed a group academics who are under fire after a petition. 

It's clear that U.S. Vice President Joe Biden deliberately decided to spare his Friday for issues of serious concerns abroad on the future of Turkish democracy, the rule of law and human rights. 

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, whom we are hosting in Istanbul today, lost his 46-year-old son to cancer last May. When his son Beau was diagnosed with cancer, he was the attorney general of Delaware. Because he was to resign from his post and lose his salary, Joe Biden and his wife Jill thought over what they would do to finance the treatment costs.

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will visit Turkey on Jan. 23 at a crucial time in the country's history. 

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is in Turkey for a two-day visit to hold talks with the country's president and prime minister regarding Syria, the international coalition against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and Turkey's fight against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).