Biden's recognition of Armenian genocide exposes Erdogan's weakness
President Biden’s recognition of the 1915 Armenian genocide exposed Erdogan’s weakness and the dramatic shift in Turkey’s geopolitical value in the United States' strategic outlook.
It is no secret that since the day of Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was nervously waiting to be called by the President of the United States. That call would be interpreted as affirmation that relations between the two countries would go on as business as usual.
Numerous government trolls and media under strict control of Erdogan were waiting for the call to use the occasion to gratify Erdogan and humiliate his domestic critics.
On the other end of the Turkish political spectrum, the long wait had become a source of mockery.
And on April 23, the call finally came. But it did not come in a way that Erdogan wished or his trolls could manipulate.
