Joe Biden

Turkey has been hosting three key Americans over the last three days. One is Vice President Joe Biden. The second is John Allen, the U.S. Special Envoy for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) strategy. The third is General James Jones, the U.S.’s former National Security Adviser and currently the chairman of the American-Turkish Council.

A scandal has erupted between two allies, the U.S. and Turkey. On a speech delivered on Oct. 2; U.S. Vice President Joe Biden had mentioned Turkey’s relations to organizations like the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and had said President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan regretted foreign fighters’ passage to Syria via Turkey.

US Vice President Joe Biden is to meet Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios on Saturday, November 22.

Biden will hold talks with the spiritual leader of Orthodox Christians in Istanbul after meeting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu a day earlier.

The muddle over U.S. Vice President Joe Biden’s remarks about Turkey has been further complicated, after a White House spokesman contradicted Biden’s denial that he apologized to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan over the issue.

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said he has not apologized to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, contradicting a previous White House statement that claimed he did.

Instead, Biden said he told Erdoğan that his alleged accusation that Turkey helped to fuel the growth of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) was misreported.

US Vice President Biden telephones president of Greek Cyprus to express concern over renewed tension with Turkey U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has telephoned the president of Greek Cyprus to express concern over renewed tension with Turkey in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden next month visits Ukraine as well as Turkey, where fighting across the border in the Syrian town of Kobane has sparked tensions with Washington.

During the week of November 17, the U.S vice president travel on to Morocco and Turkey, where he nis expected to meet with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Serbian PM has another phone conversation with U.S. VP

BELGRADE -- Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić and U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden spoke on the phone on Wednesday, it has been announced.

During the conversation Biden "underlined that the United States fully supports Serbia's European path," said a government statement.

BELGRADE - In a telephone conversation with Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, US Vice President Joseph Biden underlined that the United States fully supports Serbia's European path.

Significant progress has been made in bilateral cooperation, Vucic and Biden agreed on Wednesday.

Vučić meets with U.S. senator

BELGRADE -- Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić met on Wednesday at the Serbian government with U.S. Senator Christopher Murphy.