PUTIN KEPT WAITING FOR ERDOGAN AHEAD OF TEHRAN TALKS IN AWKWARD MOMENT (VIDEOS)

Wed 20 July 2022:

Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, has been forced to wait to meet Recep Tayyip Erdoan in front of a press while awkwardly standing in a room.

On camera, Putin fidgets, shifts his weight, and makes a series of uncomfortable faces for nearly a minute before being greeted by Erdoan, according to footage from the meeting’s prelude on Tuesday.

It was unfamiliar terrain for the Russian leader who has developed a reputation for keeping world leaders waiting, on purpose, sometimes for hours after scheduled talks were due to begin. Some speculated it may have been payback for a 2020 meeting in Moscow that saw Erdoğan wait so long to enter the meeting room that he took a seat.

Russian President Vladimir Putin was left waiting and fidgeting for 50 seconds by Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan ahead of talks in Tehran.#Putin #Erdogan #Tehran #UkraineRussianWar pic.twitter.com/yv6B8eoXry

— INDEPENDENT PRESS (@IpIndependent) July 20, 2022

Reporters captured the moment Putin strode into the room on Tuesday in the expectation Erdoğan would swiftly follow suit. Instead, he was left standing amid the sound of camera shutters.

With his hands clasped in front of him, the usually stoic Russian leader was seen shuffling his feet and sucking his cheeks during the 50-second wait. Finally, Putin let his hands fall by his sides with a hint of exasperation as Erdoğan casually emerged and the pair shook hands.

“Those 50 seconds that Erdoğan made Putin wait, looking frazzled in front of cameras say plenty of how much has changed after Ukraine,” Joyce Karam, senior correspondent at Middle Eastern media organisation National News, said in a Twitter post.

Sweet payback? In 2020, Erdogan waited for Putin two minutes before a meeting.#Putin #Erdogan #Tehran #UkraineRussianWar pic.twitter.com/8B3rLjYt2I

— INDEPENDENT PRESS (@IpIndependent) July 20, 2022

Karam called the exchange “sweet payback” for Erdoğan after Putin left the Turkish leader waiting for around two minutes before a meeting in 2020. Turkish media reported at the time that Erdoğan and his entourage were left humiliated after they were forced to wait outside in an antechamber in footage shared widely by Russian news outlets.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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