Putin was left awkwardly in front of the cameras as he waited to meet the Turkish president.
The conflict in Syria was the focus of Putin's visit to Tehran.
He can be seen striding into the room in the video taken before the meeting.
He moved from foot to foot with a deep expression. A camera operated by Anadolu zooms in on him as he waits. The cameras clicked for 40 seconds before the man arrived to shake his hand.
Joyce Karam, the National journalist, commented on the clip of the incident, saying that it says a lot about Putin's global status.
—Joyce Karam (@Joyce_Karam) July 19, 2022
In the past, Putin has kept leaders waiting for hours when they were in power, but he is not used to it.
Erdoan has been there many times. In 2020, Russian state TV channel Rossiya-1 superimposed a timer over its footage of the two minutes that Putin left the Turkish president waiting with his delegation outside a meeting room in Moscow
The Washington Post said the pause was "sweet payback" for the uproar in Turkey.
Insider has previously reported that both leaders rule their countries as strongmen, with one expert saying that the Turkish leader is more Putin than Putin.
Turkish territory has been staked out as a peacemaker since Putin invaded Ukraine.
Turkey voted in favor of suspending Russia from the UN Human Rights Council despite not following Western countries in punishing Russia.
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