Confusion over Putin-Erdogan meeting: “No date has been announced”. Putin's trip to Turkey is likely to be the first to NATO territory since the outbreak of the Ukraine war.
Meeting will be “above all symbolic political” for Recep Tayyip Erdogan, according to an expert from the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Istanbul. Turkey is helping Moscow circumvent Western sanctions by continuing its trade with Russia. On the other hand, Turkey sells weapons to Ukraine and has acted as a mediator on several occasions - such as in the grain deal.