The Ecumenical Patriarch's meeting with President Biden and the opportunities it presents
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew is set to visit the United States between October 23 and November 3, where he will hold a number of important meetings, including a meeting with US President Joe Biden at the White House. In a recent piece for the Middle East Institute, expert Tuğba Tanyeri-Erdemir argued that this in-person meeting provides the Biden administration a unique opportunity not only to raise human rights and religious freedom issues in Turkey, but also to push back against Russian attempts to undermine the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Tuğba Tanyeri-Erdemir joins The Greek Current today to discuss the upcoming visit by Ecumenical Patriarch to the United States, and the significance of his meeting with President Biden.
Dr. Tuğba Tanyeri-Erdemir is a research associate at the University of Pittsburgh’s Anthropology Department, the coordinator of the Anti-Defamation League's Task Force on Middle East Minorities, and a non-resident scholar with the Middle East Institute’s Turkey Program. She serves as the co-chair of the Middle East Working Group of the International Religious Freedom Roundtable.
Read Tuğba Tanyeri-Erdemir’s latest piece for the Middle East Institute here: Biden’s White House meeting with the Ecumenical Patriarch offers a unique opportunity
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