After treatment with the long-awaited apology to the Turkish President, the Russian leader unexpectedly quickly she forgave him everything and even later, while stretched out a hand. In any case, the media and the Internet exaggerate in full theme as Putin saved his Turkish colleague from certain death, to which he was condemned coup.
Leaked details of the report of the security Council of the Russian Federation also show that during the recent telephone conversation of Putin with Erdogan the Turkish leader thanked his colleague for saving his life and agreed to meet in the near future. It seems that at the same time, Erdogan vowed to take revenge on the Americans for organizing that failed, fortunately, a military coup.
Became known date Dating Putin and Erdogan: it will be held in St. Petersburg on August 9, as reported by the Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek during a meeting with his Russian counterpart Arkady Dvorkovich.
Russian-Turkish summit is significant not only because it will take place after 9 months of extremely tense relationship and immediately after the failed coup, but also because it will occur against the background of sharply deteriorating relations of Turkey with the West. Erdogan reminded the EU about the debt to three billion euros promised at the reception, development and maintenance of migrants.
“We have received only a small amount,” — said Erdogan, noting that Turkey has taken three million refugees, spending 12 billion euros.
“We are fulfilling our promise. And the Europeans?” — outraged the President of Turkey.
Quarrel due to their grievances with the European Union, Erdogan apparently decided it was time to improve relations with Moscow. And he goes to Russia not with empty hands, but with a package of proposals on anti-Western measures. Moscow is very necessary ally, to limit for US the entrance to the Black sea and to moderate appetites of the West in the region.
Analyzing the upcoming Erdogan’s visit to Petersburg, a political scientist Zardusht Alizade noted that this meeting will give new impetus to relations between Moscow and Ankara.
“Erdogan and Putin reconciled, embrace each other and forget old grudges. The Russian tourists again will go to Turkish resorts, Turkish builders will again build in Russia. Yes, there was a misunderstanding with the downed Russian fighter, but the interests of the country dictate who else — should be tolerated. I think that Putin and Erdogan will be able to cover all the angles”, says Alizadeh.
At the same time, the analyst does not doubt that relations between Turkey and the United States, contrary to the predictions of some experts, will not undergo any changes.
“For Turkey, NATO is a gold chip, the participation gives Ankara respectability, respect. If Turkey was not a member of NATO, it would now have been in the same situation as Syria, Egypt. Ankara has a weight in world politics it is thanks to NATO,” he said.
Touching upon the Karabakh issue, Z. Alizadeh clearly stated that neither Turkey nor any other country is not able to resolve this conflict.
“This confrontation is under the complete monopoly of Russia, and she manipulates as Armenia and Azerbaijan. Why to resolve this conflict, if it is happy with everything,” he said.
No doubt the strengthening of Russian-Turkish relations and Deputy Director of the Institute of history, Moscow state pedagogical University, Vladimir Shapovalov. He even suggests that Turkey will agree to certain concessions.
“It is in this vein were consultations between the Russian and Turkish sides. In General, it should be emphasized that the main goal of Turkey in the Syrian conflict has always been connected with the Kurdish problem. The overthrow of the Assad regime is not a key target of the Turkish state. Before the civil war in Syria, the relationship between the Erdogan and Assad were quite constructive. The deterioration of relations was a result of the hostile action against Assad, which has taken Turkey in the framework of the Syrian conflict. It is possible that the package of corrective measures, which now takes the Turkish government in foreign policy — and that the normalization of relations with Russia, with Israel — will include normalization of relations with the Assad government.
Russian-Turkish rapprochement is impossible without the normalization of Syrian-Turkish relations. Because of the involvement, hostility of Turkey to the Syrian government took the incident with the Russian plane, which was the cause of the conflict between Russia and Turkey,” — said the Russian analyst.
However, as suggested by Shapovalov, the difference of the positions on the Kurdish issue, Turkey and Russia will continue, although we expect some correction of the position of Turkey against the Syrian government.
“The position will not be able to fully reconcile because Russia perceives the Kurdish community in Syria as a possible partner in Syria’s internal dialogue and the fight against ISIS (banned in Russia organization — approx. ed.). For Turkey is the Syrian Kurds are potential allies of the Turkish Kurds, so it is unlikely that Turkey’s position will be changed in the direction of easing. It is unlikely that Russia will meet Turkey and change their attitude to the Kurds as potential partners in the internal Syrian dialogue,” he said.
Your opinion haqqin.az of alleged rapprochement between Moscow and Ankara expressed and political correspondent of the Polish Gazeta Wyborcza, Waclaw Radziwinowicz.
He believes that the establishment of Russian-Turkish relations will lose the Crimea. As noted radzivinovicz, two previous holiday season was a failure for the Crimea, and the authorities of the Peninsula are expected to the influx of Russians after the closing of Egypt and Turkey. “After the lifting of sanctions Turks drawn Russian tourists to itself, offering higher standards and lower prices Crimea”, — said Polish expert.
Head of the Department of international relations at the University of Ufuk in Ankara, former member of the Turkish Parliament, the Oia Akgonenc Mughisuddin in an interview with haqqin.az noted that Ankara has enough motivation for reconciliation with Moscow.
“Regarding the reasons for the steps of Turkey towards normalization of bilateral relations, they can be considered under several points of view. First, Turkey due to the deterioration of relations with Russia suffered serious losses. In the period when the interaction was developing, trade and economic cooperation between the two countries has expanded in almost all areas, from industry to tourism.
Further, Russia and Turkey are the two powers, from the nature of the interaction between which depends on regional stability. The deterioration of the situation in the region in one way or another affected our countries. And it’s been bothering Turkey. Secondly, it is known that at present Europe is going through not the easiest times. And Turkey is now profitable to build relations with Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan. Ankara understands that Europe is not the same and she is unable to help her,” says Mohiuddin.
In any case, whatever concessions and agreements go, the leaders during their meeting, the rapprochement between Russia and Turkey will create a new geopolitical picture in the region, which is still long time to analyze. For our country, however, one thing is clear: the Turkish-Russian enmity does not suit Azerbaijan and the cooperation both in politics and in the economy of these two Nations is in our interest.
