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The Russian government on Wednesday curtly rejected Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s offer to mediate ceasefire talks in the Ukraine war.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a joint statement to the media in Baghdad, Iraq, on April 22, 2024. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky attends a news conference as part of the Ukraine peace summit in Obbürgen, Switzerland, on June 15, 2024. Switzerland is hosting scores of world leaders this weekend to try to map out the first steps toward peace in Ukraine. over the past few years, although it is beginning to taper off as Turkey complies with Western sanctions. Chinese imports to Turkey actually surpassed those of Russia in April.
At an economic forum in June, Putin sniffed that Turkey is “cooperating with Ukraine in some spheres” and advised “our friend President Erdogan” to investigate reports of Ukraine using Turkish drones to attack the pipelines that carry Russian gas to Turkey. Putin could also be losing patience with Erdogan because the Russian dictator sees the Turkish autocrat as a lame duck, his ruling AKP partyby election losses in March. The Erdogan era might be drawing to a close and the new leader of the Turkish opposition, Ozgur Ozel, is much more Russia-friendly than his predecessor Kemal Kilicdaroglu. The Russians might think building a relationship with Ozel is much more productive at this point than making Recep Tayyip Erdogan happy.
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