Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Sochi in Russia where he was invited for a meeting by Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
At the center of the talks is
Syria
- where Ankara supports the opposition to President Bashar al Assad while Moscow supports the Damascus regime - in relation to the announced Turkish military operation against Kurdish forces considered terrorists in the north of the country that has not yet had the green light from Putin.
In addition to bilateral relations, Erdogan and Putin
will also discuss the war in Ukraine
, where Ankara has so far managed to mediate between Moscow and Kiev, recently managing to help unblock the export of Ukrainian cereals through safe corridors in the Black Sea that have started in recent days. to be used.
Putin personally thanked Erdogan for the agreements on the export of wheat
, stressing that they do not concern only Ukraine, but also "the export of Russian food and fertilizers", as reported by Tass.
ANSA agency
Ukraine: Ankara confirms the departure of 3 more ships with cereals - Mondo
The boats are bound for Great Britain, Ireland and Turkey.
Kiev: "It is necessary to start 100 per month".
In the morning strong explosions in Mykolaiv.
Orban: "Peace is impossible without talks between Russia and the United States" (ANSA)
Europe should be grateful to Turkey
for being able to buy gas from Russia through the Turkish Stream pipeline, Putin said.
During the meeting, Putin announced that he plans to sign a
memorandum for the development of trade and economic links
between Moscow and Ankara.
This was reported by the Russian state news agency Tass.
"As agreed, I hope that today we will be able to sign a memorandum on the development of our trade and economic ties, taking into account the agreements reached by our delegation while working in Turkey," Putin said according to Tass.
For its part, Turkey stressed the importance of completing the construction of
the Akkuyu nuclear power plant
in southern Turkey on time.
the plant is a project carried out in collaboration with Moscow and has been under construction since the end of 2017. Officially, the first unit of the plant is expected to be completed by 2023.
