Biden and Erdoğan reset US-Turkey relations
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, center, fist bumps with US President Joe Biden, right, as he stands up to greet him during a plenary session at a NATO summit in Brussels, June 14, 2021.
US President Joe Biden and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sat down on Monday for a face-to-face meeting on the sidelines of the NATO summit. In the US, there’s a growing push to require public schools to cover the histories of groups left out of history textbooks. Also, G-7 leaders pledged 1 billion vaccine doses to developing countries and agreed to step up action on climate change, but activists say they are unimpressed. And the Copa America soccer tournament kicked off in Brazil this week. A majority of Brazilians think it’s dangerous to host the games amid COVID-19 concerns.
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