U.S. President Joe Biden and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will discuss problematic bilateral ties on Monday including Ankara’s purchase of Russian S-400 missiles, but there is little hope they will resolve any of several disputes that divide NATO.
The two leaders will hold their first face-to-face talks since Biden took office in January on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Brussels.
Turkey has the Western alliance’s second-biggest military after the United States but disagreements over Syria, human rights, the treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire and tensions in the eastern Mediterranean have strained their ties.
As president, Biden has recognised the 1915 massacre of Armenians as genocide and stepped up criticism of Turkey’s human rights record, adopting a cooler tone towards Erdogan than his predecessor Donald Trump.
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the two leaders would also touch on Afghanistan, Libya and China.
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