As a NATO member, Turkey does not want a war between Russia and Ukraine, “as they have been saying all along,” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at a meeting with Turkish youth in Trabzon on state-run TRT television.
Erdogan announced that he would visit Ukraine for a meeting of the high-level strategic council and that he would then hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. He said he was against the war between Russia and Ukraine, which has been talked about all along, and that it would be a bad sign for the region. As a NATO country, we will not accept that, Erdogan said.
Last month, the Turkish president warned that a military conflict between Russia and Ukraine would be tantamount to a “serious breach of peace” and was unacceptable to Turkey, and offered to mediate again, Reuters reported.
NATO member Turkey has good relations with Kiev and Moscow, but opposes Russia’s policies in Syria and Libya and the annexation of the Crimean peninsula in 2014, the agency said.
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