Erdoğan Meets Putin in Sochi
Erdoğan Meets Putin in Sochi

Author(s): Aleksandra Maria Spancerska
Subject(s): Politics, Economic policy, Environmental and Energy policy, International relations/trade, Security and defense
Published by: PISM Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych
Keywords: Turkey; Russia; foreign policy; Erdoğan; Putin;
Summary/Abstract: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited Sochi, Russia, on 5 August and met with Vladimir Putin. This was the first visit of the Turkish president to Russia since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Erdoğan, despite participating in the implementation of agreements to ship grain from Ukraine, failed to achieve his main goal of obtaining Putin’s approval for Türkiye to conduct a new military operation in northeastern Syria. Nevertheless, he won a Russian declaration of the necessity to further implement the Istanbul agreement and an assurance about the intensification of bilateral cooperation in the economic and energy spheres.

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