JOE BIDEN

Erdogan clearly indicated that he got what he wanted from the deal regarding Sweden and Finland, and that declared he would leave the summit with his 'hands full'.

The optimism bred by the Kremlin’s announcement that it is withdrawing certain forces from the Russia-Ukraine border proved to be premature.

US President Joe Biden's Summit for Democracy has the prospect of functioning as an alternative to the G20 and it constitutes an important move by participants.

The meeting with the US President comes at a time that US-Turkish relations are at rock bottom and in a period when the Ecumenical Patriarchate has been attacked by the Russian Church and the Kremlin.

The meetings with American officials come at a time that US-Turkish relations are at rock bottom and when the Ecumenical Patriarchate has suffered the attacks of the Russian Church and the Kremlin.

HIncoming President Joe Biden must break the shackles of isolationism and fashion a global plan, in cooperation with the entire Western world, that can stem the recession and make America the motive force of a social contract.

The exceptionally good personal relationship between Donald Trump and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, gave Ankara great leeway in charting its geopolitical moves and to harrass other NATO member-states and to ignore good neighbourly relations.

Though Joe Biden is ahead the closeness of the race indicates that the criteria of American citizens in choosing their leader are entirely different than those of European pundits.