Turkey still considers the Crimea part of Ukraine and assesses its relations with Russia as “cold”. It on a press-conferences in Kiev has declared Jonet Jan Tezel, Ambassador extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Turkish Republic in Ukraine.
“We are not in the relationship with Russia, we are quite cold. We do not have a positive attitude to the Crimea.
Ukraine is a strategic ally of Turkey, our neighbor. And it is in our interest that Ukraine was a strong, independent, with good reforms, democratic, integrated with Europe, a country with territorial integrity, including Crimea and sovereignty. This is the basic questions.
It was always over the crisis in Ukraine and during our crisis with Russia. Relations with Ukraine and our attitude towards the Crimea has not changed. And it is known to Russia and to our allies.
I nodded his blood when I hear about it, about the question of the Crimean Tatars, who are our brothers. Now the leaders of the Crimean Tatar people can’t even live in their territory, they were deported,” – said the representative of Turkey.
