Biden’s comments to New York Times editors, where he advocated a new U.S. approach to the “autocrat” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and support for opposition parties, resurfaced in a video that made him the most popular topic on Twitter in Turkey on Aug. 15.

In the video, Biden says the U.S. should adopt an approach against Erdogan which makes “it clear that we are in a position where we have a way which was working for a while to integrate the Kurdish population who wanted to participate in the process in their parliament, etc. Because we have to speak out about what we in fact think is wrong.”

“There are sentences [in Biden’s comments] which overstep the limit. We have fought the [Turkish] War of Independence and Çanakkale war with our Kurdish brothers. Our Kurdish brothers were also in the Constituent Assembly [of the Turkish Republic]. So, who are you to say we made it possible for Kurds to enter parliament?” Cavusoglu said.

Cavusoglu made the remarks to Turkey’s Anadolu Agency following his meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in the Dominican Republic on Aug. 16.

According to Duvar he also said it was “strange” that a person who has been nominated to lead the U.S. made such “ignorant comments” on Turkey.

Cavusoglu also criticized Biden for his comments in which he urged “a very different approach” to Erdogan by “engaging” with the elements of the Turkish opposition leadership. Cavusoglu said that that Turkish elections are held democratically and transparently.

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