‘Unacceptable’: Erdogan slams Biden over ‘killer’ Putin comment

US President Joe Biden called the Russian president a ‘killer’, with Putin responding that ‘it takes one to know one’.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that United States President Joe Biden’s comments about Russia’s Vladimir Putin, in which he called him a “killer”, were “unacceptable” and “not fitting of a president”. In a TV interview broadcast on Wednesday, Biden said “I do” when asked if he believed the Russian president was a killer, plunging diplomatic ties to a new low. Putin responded that “it takes one to know one”. “Mr Biden’s comment about Putin does not suit a head of state,” the Turkish president told reporters after Friday prayers in Istanbul, lauding Putin for giving a “smart” and “classy response”.