Biden may speak with Erdogan this week after Mitsotakis call

Joe Biden may speak with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as early as this week, ending months of silence from the new occupant of the White House. Sources in Washington told on Sunday that White House officials informed Turkish diplomats that there was a likelihood that Biden would make a phone call to Erdogan now that he has called Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. He spoke with Mitsotakis on March 25, the 200th anniversary of Greece’s independence from the Ottoman Empire. For decades, there has been a diplomatic tradition of sorts that incoming U.S. presidents conduct their initial outreach to…