Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Biden hold bilateral meeting following NATO summit - CNNPolitics

Erdoğan and Biden hold bilateral meeting following NATO summit By Kate Sullivan and Kevin Liptak, CNN Updated 4:38 PM ET, Mon June 14, 2021 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) greets US President Joe Biden (R) at the NATO summit at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization headquarters in Brussels, on June 14, 2021. (CNN)President Joe Biden and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan held a bilateral meeting on Monday following a meeting of NATO leaders in Brussels. The meeting, which took place at the NATO headquarters in Belgium, was expected to be contentious. Biden in April became the first US president in decades to recognize the massacre of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire as a genocide -- a move that risked a potential fracture with Turkey but signaled a commitment to global human rights. More:Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Biden hold bilateral meeting following NATO summit - CNNPolitics