Putin’s rapid phone call expressing his solidarity to Erdogan in the wake of the failed putsch had been a “psychological boost”, the Turkish president said.
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“Iran, Russia, and Turkey are key players in the region and need to engage in dialogue and cooperation”.
On the issue of Turkish schools and institutions in Nigeria, the ambassador said his government and the Nigerian government were already talking to find a solution to the issue saying, “The government of Turkey will never do anything against the Nigerian people”.
Turkey’s attempt at warming ties with Russian Federation has caused some consternation in the West over the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation member’s positions, but Turkish officials have stressed they are not looking to abandon their ties to the West.
Turkey has also cancelled the work permits of 27,424 people in the education sector as part of its investigations, Education Minister Ismet Yilmaz said on Thursday. Turkey’s state-run news agency reports Friday, Aug. 12, 2016, authorities have issued an arrest warrant for former soccer star and legislator Hakan Sukur over his alleged links to a US -based Muslim cleric, accused by Turkey of masterminding last month’s failed coup.
The ruling AK Party founded by Erdogan has long had testy relations with the military, which for decades saw itself as the guardian of Turkey’s secular order and the legacy of the nation’s founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
The three-person Turkish delegation in Moscow, made up of representatives from the military, intelligence and foreign service, is tasked with implementing decisions made at Tuesday’s summit including coordination on Syria, Cavusoglu said.
Speaking to the exporters, Erdogan urged the businessmen to inform “prosecutors and police” on Gulen supporters they know, and to inform business contacts overseas that the Gulen movement was “not only a threat to our country but to the whole world”.
Western allies are concerned President Tayyip Erdogan’s purge of the military and government may affect Turkey’s stability.
“Either the coup-plotting terrorist FETO or the democratic country Turkey”. “On one hand, he wanted to be closer to the West, to show that he is on their side”. Erdogan won’t withdraw from North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, and he isn’t likely to cut ties with the U.S. But he will improve relations with Russian Federation and China where he can-if only to show he can make Western critics sweat. “Much depends on the positions of voters, whose incomes are falling and then his legitimacy is fading”.
This is a significant shift, however, and comes immediately after a comparable agreement between the Turkish government and Russian Federation over Syria, suggesting the Erdogan government is dramatically rethinking its position on the civil war.
He repeated, however, Turkey’s demand that the US extradite Gulen.
That has chilled relations with Washington and the European Union, bringing repeated Turkish warnings about an EU deal to stem the flow of migrants. Erdogan issued an apology for the incident in June.
Russian officials answered the Turkish move by ordering economic and diplomatic sanctions on its neighbor.
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“Syria should develop its future”. Russian Federation denied crossing the border and called the act a planned provocation by supporters of terrorism.
