The Turkish President believes that an agreement between Russia and Ukraine is still possible. Erdogan wants to speak to Selenskyj on Friday – and then to Putin in the coming days.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on Vladimir Putin to make an “honorable withdrawal” from Ukraine.
“We must now say, ‘Now you must be the architect of the step that must be taken towards peace,'” Erdogan said to the Russian president, according to the Turkish Presidential Office.
Erdogan reiterated that he did not want to impose sanctions on Russia. It is impossible for Turkey to break ties with Russia. He couldn’t leave his people in the cold in winter and snow, and he couldn’t completely transform the industry either.
Turkey is also dependent on Moscow for gas and other energy supplies, among other things. In addition, the largest number of tourists from Russia come to Turkey every year.
Turkish nuclear power plant under Russian leadership
The country’s first nuclear power plant is currently being built in southern Turkey under Russian leadership. After completion, the nuclear power plant will cover about ten percent of Turkey’s energy needs – roughly the consumption of the metropolis of Istanbul.
Erdogan and the Turkish government were heavily involved as mediators in the war. Ankara maintains close ties with Kyiv and Moscow. Erdogan wants to speak again with the Ukrainian head of state Volodymyr Zelenskyj on Friday and with Putin in the coming days.
Erdogan said that an agreement between Russia and Ukraine is still possible, but there is still disagreement on some negotiation points: “Of course, Ukraine does not feel particularly comfortable with issues like Crimea and Donbass,” Erdogan said.
For example, Moscow is demanding that Ukraine renounce NATO membership and that the eastern Ukrainian separatist areas of Donetsk and Luhansk be recognized as independent states and the annexed Black Sea peninsula of Crimea as Russian territory.
Source: Stern
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