The agreement was reached at a meeting between the President Putin and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in Saint Petersburg.
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The visiting leader said the two countries will restore their yearly bilateral trade target of 100 billion dollars and will speed up the resumption of charter flights from Russian Federation to Turkey. Russia promptly cut ties with Turkey over the incident, banned Turkish vegetables, restricted Russian tourists’ access to Turkey and blocked some Turkish companies from working on its market.
Russia’s Kommersant newspaper wrote that the meeting between Erdogan and Putin had ended the crisis and removed tensions on bilateral relations. “He also conveyed his condolences for those who had lost their lives during the coup attempt”, it added.
Mr Putin was one of the first foreign leaders to phone Mr Erdogan offering support after the coup attempt and shares none of the scruples of European Union leaders about the ensuing crackdown.
So what are the issues at play in the rekindled relationship? In Moscow, he also implied that Gulenists in the military may have been responsible for the downing of the Russian jet previous year, telling a Turkish-Russian business council that they had “clearly taken aim at ties between our countries”, although he stopped short of blaming them outright.
Russian Federation is a main, key and very important player in establishing peace in Syria.
Earlier, Bloomberg reported that Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said “Bulgaria and Russian Federation agreed to resurrect the canceled South Stream natural gas pipeline across the Black Sea, and the Belene nuclear power plant”.
Russian Media reported on July 26 of the year that Russia and Turkey have resumed talks on the establishment of a joint investment fund.
“That terrorist head will come to Turkey and be brought to account”.
The Russian president categorically condemned the failed military coup.
Turkey has formally arrested 16,000 people in connection to the failed coup.
Turkish officials don’t appear to be keen on backing away from the allegations, with pro-government newspapers accusing the US-based Woodrow Wilson Center of being in on the coup, and the Justice Ministry issuing a statement warning that the United States is risking bilateral relations by not handing over exiled cleric Fethullah Gulen. “At the same time, I do not believe that relations between the two countries will become so close that Russian Federation can offer Turkey an alternative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation security partnership”. “We’re seeing the results of that right now”.
Gulen has denied the accusations levelled against him, but Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan is pressing to have him extradited from the US.
Both countries are also key players in the war in Syria. The Directorate said some of them were employed overseas. “Both sides are determined to take relations forward”.
Moscow could use economic levers to force Turkey to compromise on Syria. “I believe that our solidarity will help toward the resolution of regional problems”, he said.
Mr Erdogan, who has said the trip represents a “new milestone”, told Mr Putin that ties had entered a “very different phase”, and thanked the Kremlin leader for his backing after the coup attempt. “We need to set up our own defense system and develop our own technology in cooperation with other countries”, Cavusoglu said.
The deal also promised Turkey billions in funding as well as various political concessions, including visa-free travel for Turks in Europe.
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Supporters of of President Erdogan in Antalya last month, following the attempted coup in Turkey.
