... apology itself can be interpreted differently (it is addressed to the families of the deceased pilots and in Turkish, sounds somewhat like “Alright, guys, we made a mistake, no hard feelings, OK?”), there is no doubt that the President of Turkey intended his letter to be taken as an apology. Judging by the reaction from the Kremlin, and given the fact that the Press Secretary for the President of Russia, Dmitry Peskov, is fluent in Turkish, it would seem that the text of the apology has ...
On May 17, 2016 the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) hosted a meeting of its Director General Andrey Kortunov with Umit Yardim, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Turkey to the Russian Federation.
The meeting was attended by RIAC Deputy Program Director Timur Makhmutov, RIAC Program Manager Lyudmila Filippova and Second Secretary of the Turkish Embassy Fatih Topaloglu.
The RIAC Director General and the Turkish ...
... Rotational Force which is dispatched at the Mihail Kogălniceanu airbase, and provides the US with a naval support facility in Deveselu.
This NATO flotilla would primarily rely on NATO Black Sea members naval capabilities (i.e. Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey), but would not be restricted to them, with prospects to join already offered to Ukraine and Georgia, while some Western navies would be contributing as well (in particular the US, Italian and German).[1] Taking into account that all Black Sea ...
... been a forum in which partners can participate on an equal footing in their national capacity. If that had been the case, the Council would have had to discuss the incident within the framework of its own format, i.e. with the participation of Russia, Turkey and other member countries of the RNC. This did not happen, however, and the question why did not arise.
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Igor Ivanov:
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the 21st Century?
The principle of dialogue on an equal footing ...
... okay with the erosion of democratic values and a deeply undemocratic military occupation of the West Bank as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict stifles Israel’s left and drives its people further to the right. The assault on democratic norms in Turkey by its government is far worse. Still worse in that region, the Arab Spring has, in general, become a massive tragedy.
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Additionally, democracy by no means appears stable or secure overall in either Sub-Saharan Africa or in Latin America....
... the Kremlin has tried to come up with what Fenenko describes as “a balanced partnership” — “maintaining the collaborative relations with Armenia” and “a strategic partnership with Azerbaijan.” However, given Turkey’s political stakes in Azerbaijan and the sharp decline in Moscow-Ankara relations resulting from Turkey’s downing of a Russian jet near the Syrian border last year, the Kremlin’s attempts to straddle between Yerevan and Baku might ...
... international media with full titles and affiliations, something that they were previously denied of.
To many, this raised hopes for a re-launch of peace process in its initial setting, with the participation of the Nagorno-Karabakh
Russia the dealmaker, and Turkey the dealbreaker
Some authors however suggest that Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the President of Turkey, whose eternal hug with Aliyev in Ankara weeks before had become a source of inspiration in social media, could have been behind encouraging Aliyev ...
... following Russia’s cancellation of South Stream which became a casualty of Russia-Ukrainian conflict and faced high opposition from the EU with regard to its anti-monopoly laws. The original plan for landfall in the EU (Bulgaria) will now occur in Turkey, while the distribution hub for Europe will be located at the border of Turkey and Greece. Being a strategically important transit point for Russian gas going to Europe and bypassing Ukraine, Turkey tries to increase its bargaining power and engages ...
... Institute for the Development of Scientific Cooperation (
MIRNaS
), the
RAS Institute of Oriental Studies
, and the Russian International Affairs Council.
The meeting was attended by experts, journalists, civil society leaders of Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkey, who discussed international terrorism, security in the Middle East and Eurasia, coupling Eurasian integration projects, and the role of scientific and educational cooperation in promoting multilateral interaction among Eurasian states.
The Russian ...
... unresolved. My personal guess is that a Russian – Saudi agreement on the future of the Middle East is more likely to be achieved in a multilateral format than in the framework of the bilateral relationship.
Regarding recent events between Russia and Turkey impinging on the cordial bilateral trade ties and economic cooperation, how do you predict the future of Russia-Turkey relations?
I would argue that the crisis between our two countries had been ripening for a long time, and the SU-24 grounding ...
