Biden, Erdogan exchange criticism amid worries White House giving Turkey the cold shoulder

After verbal jabs with Russia and China last week, President Biden criticized ally Turkey's withdrawal from a European convention on violence against women, adding to the diplomatic tensions facing the early days of Biden's presidency.

Biden called Turkey's withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention "a disheartening step backward for the international movement to end violence against women globally." Last week, Biden called Putin "a killer." Less than a day later, Chinese State Councilor Wang Yi told Secretary of State Antony Blinken "the United States does not have the qualification to say that it wants to speak to China from a position of strength," during the first face-to-face, high-level talks between the two countries since Biden entered the Oval Office.