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Erdogan and Putin: A new Chapter?
Russia’s President Putin received his Turkish counterpart Erdogan in St. Petersburg. The Meeting aims to resolve the deep crisis between the two countries. Erdogan already sees a new Chapter in relations.
At the start of his meeting with President Vladimir Putin in his home city of St. Petersburg, the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said: “I believe that we are entering with this step and future steps in a very different Phase.” The solidarity between the two countries will help to solve problems in the Region.
Putin said as a greeting, both sides wanted to capture the “dialogue and relations”. It is the first meeting of the two heads of state since the Downing of a Russian fighter jet by Turkey in the Syrian border area in November. The incident had strained relationships for months. According to information from Moscow, Ankara apologized later, but.
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Erdogan travels to Putin to St. Petersburg
At the Meeting in St. Petersburg to, among other things, to the abolition of the sanctions that Russia imposed after the launch at the end of November. “Today we have an opportunity to speak in the strict and in the big circle, the whole complex of our relations. Also about the restoration of trade relations and the fight against terrorism,” Putin said. “I am very glad to have this opportunity.”
Tensions with Western countries
Erdogan thanked for the prompt condemnation of the coup attempt in Turkey by Putin. The personal call a day after the coup attempt of 15. July had made “our people happy”. The Turkish President criticized the lack of solidarity of Western States, which he accused: “The West has taken the side of the putschists.” Putin stressed: “We have always been against anti-constitutional actions, that is our basic Position.”
After the talks, the Turkish state broadcaster TRT reported, the two heads of state had discussed an hour and a half. A high ranking representative of the Turkish President’s office said the atmosphere was “very positive”. It’ll give a clear consensus to normalize relations. Both sides are also determined “to advance relations”. The Russian Agency Tass, the two heads of state came together then in a larger circle, with their delegations.
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Shortly before the trip of Erdogan, the Turkish authorities lifted up as a sign of good will, a barrier of the state-owned Russian news website “Sputnik”. The telecommunications authority had released access, reported the Turkish news Agency Anadolu. The Website is accessible from Turkey again. In the Wake of the diplomatic ice age, after the shooting down of the Plane, Turkey had blocked the “Sputnik”.
Economic Cooperation
At the Meeting in St. Petersburg also economic issues are likely to be on the Agenda, such as the planned Gas Pipeline TurkStream, as well as the target of the first nuclear power plant in Turkey, which wants to build a Turkish-Russian consortium in the southern Akkuyu.
No Worries in Berlin
The Federal government, with a view to the rapprochement between Turkey and Russia left. Of Russia-the Federal government Commissioner, Gernot Erler, language of the fears in Germany radio that the visit of the Turkish President to the Russian head of state, a Europe-oriented Alliance.
He saw, rather, a “European interest in this ice age, between Turkey and Russia is finished,” said Erler, because they prevent solutions from conflicts such as in Syria or in the Caucasus. However, the Meeting was also a Signal in the direction of Europe, the need to work on relations with Russia and Turkey.
wl/fw/kle (rtr, dpa, afp, rtr, dlf)