Story highlights Vice President Joe Biden has played a key role in the Obama administrations relations with Turkey

The US condemned a recent coup attempt

Edgartown, Massachusetts (CNN) Vice President Joe Biden will visit Turkey on August 24, the White House announced on Saturday. He'll be the highest level American visitor to the country since a coup there failed in July.

"While in Ankara, the Vice President will meet with President [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan and Prime Minister [Binali] Yildirim to discuss the US-Turkey relationship and a range of issues of importance to both nations," the White House said in a Saturday statement.

It's expected a Turkish extradition request for US-based cleric Fettulah Gulen, who Ankara accuses of planning the coup, to arise during the stop.

Biden has long helped manage relations with Turkey for the Obama administration, and last visited for meetings and cultural stops in January of this year.

Since then, ties between the two countries have become strained amid differences in the fight against ISIS and the accusations lobbed over Gulen, who lives in Pennsylvania and denies any involvement in the coup.

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