“Moreover, I hope that the relations between Russia and Turkey reach the level that it deserves in the near future”, Erdogan wrote in the letter to the Russian President, while Yildirim voiced a similar wish in his letter to Medvedev.
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“It goes without saying – and Putin said about that, too – that we would like to see normalization of our relations and a return to the period of good and mutually beneficial cooperation”, he stated.
Erdogan wrote in the letter that he would like to build warm and friendly relations with Russian Federation that deserve to enter a distinguished level.
Peskov said that Russian Federation would like to take its relations with Turkey back to the previous high level.
Kremlin believes that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s congratulatory letter to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Russia’s national day requires no response, spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday, Sputniknews reports.
“This is a protocol and common practice in global relations”. In addition, Moscow banned practically all food imports from Turkey, primarily fruits and vegetables, along with most poultry products.
The project was approved by Kaluga region governor Anatoly Artamonov and Russia’s president Vladimir Putin, the Russian news agency TASS reported. It is the first official letter since a year ago, the press service said.
Moscow-Ankara ties plunged to an unprecedentedly low level after a Turkish F-16 fighter destroyed a Russian Sukhoi Su-24 bomber targeting Daesh (also known as ISIL and ISIS) positions in northern Syria in 2015. Turkey said the bomber entered its airspace, while Russian Federation denied its warplane flying into the Turkish skies.
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“God’s willing, an improvement will appear in relations between Turkish-Russian that has begun with plane crisis and results will be taken”, Kurtulmus said. There have been no apologies from Ankara so far.
