6/2 Armenia has received an invitation to participate in the inauguration ceremony of Turkey’s President-elect Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Armenian News-NEWS.am has learned from the PM's Office. And Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan on Saturday will travel to Turkish capital Ankara to attend this ceremony.”
9/9 Bosniaks girls, members of the Islamic community of Sisak, greeting the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at the opening of the mosque and Islamic center today. Croatian President Zoran Milanović is standing behind/next to Erdoğan.
The benefits for Moscow of signing the grain deal were always modest. It’s likely that Russian President Vladimir Putin simply wanted to have an additional means of exerting pressure on the West. From his point of view, now is the time to wield that power.
7/18 GRU's Gen. Alexeev, seen here a few days ago in Istanbul as a Russian representative at the Turkey-brokered "peace talks". Considering the % of GRU officers on the Russian side of the delegation (at least 2 out of 5), I doubt *peace* is the goal of these meetings.
7/13 Guterres was more cautious, however, on whether a final agreement will be signed next week. “I never like to make predictions,”“We are hoping we are able to reconvene very soon, I’m sure next week, and hopefully we’ll be able to have a final agreement.”
7/7 .@RepMalliotakis on board/cosponsored F16s amendment “despite Greece's legitimate concerns @POTUS signaled willingness to provide Turkey with US warplanes/kits which would only heighten threat against some of our country's strongest allies, including Greece, Cyprus, Israel”
6/29 Milorad Dodik〜recently called Erdogan a “great statesman” who understands the situation in the Balkan country./ In 2019, Serbia even granted Turkish police the ability to operate on its soil. ”
Russia,which initially said the fighters should surrender,has said little publicly about the talks. Kalın said theRu position"changes day to day." "They look at the security situation on the ground and other dynamics,their negotiations,their own internal coordination,""So sometimes it is hard to get
opposition by citing Sweden&〜 alleged support for Kurdish militants&〜did not want to repeat Turkey’s past “mistake” from when it agreed to readmit Greece intoNATO’s military wing in1980. He claimed the action had allowedGreece “to take an attitude agnst Turkey” with NATO’s backing.
5/7 Nikola Mikovic /Acc to some reports,Iranian forces have already deployed to parts ofSyria previously controlled byRu troops.〜ButPutin’sUkrainian adventure has disrupted supply chains&now, acc to Russian sources, Iran has become the main supplier of petrol and other fuels to theAssad regime./
5/3 Armenia, Turkey agree to go ahead with normalization without preconditions/ The envoys held their first meeting inMoscow onJan14&the2nd one,in Vienna onFeb24.Yerevan has made a positive comment on progress in the negotiations,add that opening the border withTurkey was one ofArmenia’s prioritie
Ru’s isolation〜will undoubtedly have an impact on its positions in theSCaucasus〜That is why fears inYerevan are growing thatTurkey will eventually increase its influence inYe,&even crowdRu out of the region–a move which would forceArmenia to make significant concessions toAnkara&its allyAzer
I thought it was unbelievable, but the latest signals from Erdogan and Zelensky that suddenly there are opportunities for an agreement indicate that Putin most likely understands the dead end of the situation
Schröder met in Istanbul’s Dolmabahçe Palace onMon afternoon with a Ukrainian delegation, led by Rustem Umerov, a Ukrainian MP who took part in the recent cease-fire talks with Moscow in Belarus. (Umerov has not commented on Schröder’s initiative.)