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By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com
When U.S. Vice President openly chastised Turkey for allowing foreign militant fighters to cross its territory into Syria to join Islamist State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), President Vladimir Putin of Russia picked up the phone.
Putin, estranged from the international community for his Ukraine gambit, called Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Oct. 11 to offer sympathy and support.
Although Biden, who is known for being prone to gaffes of all sizes and types, apologized to Erdogan for his remarks which blamed Turkey for the rise of ISIL, the Turkish president was furious still.
“If Biden said such a thing, he is history to me,” Erdogan was quoted as saying by Turkish press.
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