The United States will pay the price if it acts against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the official representative of the Turkish leader, Ibrahim Kalin, wrote on Twitter. Thus, he commented on the statement made in December 2019 by the US presidential candidate, Joseph Biden. The former vice president expressed concern about the approach of the current American administration to Erdogan.
In December 2020, Biden held a meeting with the editors of The New York Times, but a video recording of the meeting gained immense popularity on the Turkish segment of Twitter on August 15. "What I think we should be doing is taking a very different approach to him [Erdogan] now, making it clear that we support opposition leadership," added the former US vice president.