Erdogan discussed energy, citing the potential to construct a natural gas pipeline between the two nations running under the Black Sea.
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Pressed by reporters to confirm the United States reaction, Trudeau said, “We’ve been very clear that if Russian Federation is interested in fighting against (the IS group)”, then “we would welcome that”. He said on August 11 that two officials in Bangladesh fled to NY and another official had fled to Japan through Moscow. Turkish officials accused the airplane of violating Turkish airspace. “Either big concessions in terms of supporting the opposition, or Russian Federation wants Turkey to pressure the Syrian opposition into the negotiations”, he added. Erdogan issued an apology for the incident in June.
Moscow is one of the principle backers of Bashar al-Assad’s government and militarily intervened in the war in Syria on his behalf in October 2015.
“Many countries are engaged in Syria actively”.
Zarif, for his part, welcomed cooperation between Turkey and Russian Federation. Russian Federation and Iran recognize Assad as the only legitimate authority in Syria. “I’m not going to put a timeline on it”, she said. Golts now works as a visiting researcher at Uppsula University in Sweden.
Those in Turkey’s ruling AKP who believe that the United States is conspiring to bring down Erdogan might be tempted to see Russian support as valuable purely from the perspective of political survival. The “loss of more than 4 million tourists made quite a blow on the economy”, he said.
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.
Erdogan visited Russia’s second city of Saint Petersburg on Tuesday – his first trip overseas since the July 15 coup attempt. Turkey has complained of a lack of solidarity from Western allies who have raised concerns over Turkey’s massive crackdown on alleged supporters of a movement led by USA -based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen.
Since 1999, Gulen has lived in self-imposed exile in a rural compound in the USA state Pennsylvania. Turkish officials want him extradited to Turkey for trial.
Asked if the U.S.is concerned about the high number of people rounded up for supposed coup involvement, State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau told reporters Thursday, “I’m not an intelligence agent”. He said Erdogan may be willing to negotiate on the issue.
Despite the warming ties with Russia, Turkish officials maintain that Assad must eventually step down and say relations with Moscow will not take the place of its Western allies.
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Daniel Schearf reported this story for VOANews.com.
