For his part Erdogan said that he hoped Russia-Turkish ties would become “more robust” and stressed how important it was that Putin offered his support after the coup.
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“The Turkish side has already taken corresponding decisions on the Akkuyu nuclear power plant construction and the Turkish Stream gas pipeline”.
Putin: “Your visit today despite the complicated political situation in Turkey shows that all of us want to resume our dialogue and restore our relations in the interests of the people of Turkey and Russian Federation”.
Turkish F-16s shot down a Russian Su-24 over the Syrian-Turkey border on November 24, 2015, an attack Vladimir Putin described at the time as a “treacherous stab in the back”. “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”.
President Erdogan went on to mention the trade targets between Russian Federation and Turkey.
However, they do not agree on the way forward in Syria.
She said that Washington expects Turkish officials to be responsible while issuing statements about friendly nations, adding that any extradition of Gulen would be “a legal, technical process… governed by the 1981 extradition treaty signed by both of our countries”. “Turkey’s exports to Russian Federation, including food, fell by more than half to $730m in the first six months of this year”.
TURKISH PRESIDENT RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN, on the situation in Syria.
Russian Federation is carrying out a bombing campaign in support of President Bashar Assad while Turkey is fiercely opposed to the Syrian leader. The United States and European countries have taken a dim view of Erdogan’s widespread purge of tens of thousands of judges, police, military and university professors in the wake of the July 15 coup attempt.
Now he tells Turkish media that he’s looking for new levels of cooperation, both militarily and economically, between Ankara and Moscow.
Al Jazeera said that “one of the interesting things about the whole spat between Russian Federation and Turkey is how much of it seemed to be driven by the personalities of the two leaders; not actually to do with any of the interests the two countries shared”.
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The deal, struck in March, helped stem the flow of migrants from Turkey to the nearby Greek islands in exchange for an European Union pledge of funds and visa-free travel for Turks.
