Turkey has now taken up a major role in mediating in the Russian-Ukraine war, making it clear at the outset that it condemns Russia’s invasion of Ukraine but also that it does not support sanctions against Russia. Of course, Turkey has its own paramount economic interests in mind.
Turkey has also long worked to expand its global influence. Turkey is a key Muslim Brotherhood supporter and funder, and a significant player in the spread of the Salafist ideology in the West (including in the U.S.). Erdogan has ambitions for a revived Ottoman Empire.
America, meanwhile, under the Biden administration’s feeble “progressive” agenda, no longer stands on its strong, historic foundations, or upon the ethic proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence.
“Turkey juggles relationships with Russia, Ukraine amid economic crisis,” by Tom Wheeldon, France 24, March 30, 2022:
Turkey has played a major role in the search for an end to the Ukraine war as the host for this week’s talks between Moscow and Kyiv – the product of an ambivalent stance experts say is largely rooted in the troubled Turkish economy’s deep links to both countries.
Weeks before Russia and Ukraine agreed on Istanbul as the site for the March 28-30 peace talks, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made Turkey’s equivocal position clear, saying “we cannot give up” on either nation the day before Russia invaded.
Ankara has stayed true to this approach. The Turkish foreign ministry called the invasion “unacceptable” and a “grave violation of international law” when it began on February 24. Four days later Turkey followed Ukraine’s request to recognise the conflict as a war, allowing it to close the Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits to most warships under the 1936 Montreux Convention.
However, Turkey also opposes the Western sanctions imposed on Russia – with Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu emphasising that Russian oligarchs are “of course” welcome in Turkey and free to do business there in accordance with international law.
These statements exemplify Turkey’s distinct position on the conflict – “pro-Ukrainian” but “not outright anti-Russian”, as summarised by Ozgur Unluhisarcikli, director of the German Marshall Fund’s Ankara bureau, in an interview with FRANCE 24….
born saturday says
it is ironic, or maybe part of the new ottomaniac chalifate daily gebels tactics statements and practises, that an islamist country like theirs is becoming the epicenter of peace talks, while they have thousants of jihadis on payroll fighting in syria in iraq, in libya and again recently in armenia where the turkish military it self participates in the invasions…. a chalifate whose wars ethnic cleansing and massacres of civilians can have no less than inspired (if not incited) the invasion of ukraine by russia….
the epicenter of the start of the world war in syria and iraq negotiating for peace in ukraine, while it occupies land in three countries including cyprous iraq and syria….
ironic is the least… it is ineffective and bount to not work out well at all…
ofcourse we all heard some words but in the battlefield bussiness is as usual…
Falsafa says
I can only laugh at such biased anti Turkish uneducated comments, but hey whatever makes you happy…
born saturday says
supporting terrorism in europe, africa and america,
declaring piratic and illegal according to international maritime law exclusive financial zone that includes foreign islandsand foreign financial zones,
made a deal with pakistan for cooperation in developing nuclear weapons,
manufactures missiles which it places on the brorders,
threatens the neighbors he is not at war with yet with war,
maintains the impoverisation of its own hypnotized citizens,
exterminates the kurds in various regions,
has turned the most historic temple of christianity along with other ancient temples into mosques,
jailed hundends of journalists and God knows how many other from military to judiciaries,
is responsible for the whole of the jihadist genocides in syria and iraq….
this is just for recently as wherever you look in history you discover that turkey has a criminal record rather than history, just like most muslim nations….
gravenimage says
Note that the absurdly self-styled “Falsafa” does not actually refute anything that born saturday says–but then, why would he? Jihad is perfectly Islamic.
Infidel says
I sympathize w/ Ukraine, but they don’t have a choice, since the other option was Belarus, which is only waiting for Moscow to tell it whether or not to join the war
SAFI says
“but also that it does not support sanctions against Russia”
“Russian oligarchs are “of course” welcome in Turkey and free to do business”
In plain words Erdogan hopes to make some bucks by becoming the loophole through whom Russian oil and other goods can reach western markets (…and through which Russian oligarchs can access western made luxury goods?) He’s done similar things in the past with Iranian sanctions. Very shrewd business guy, he sees an opportunity to smuggle contraband, he takes it. (pay no attention to how he wrecked Turkey’s currency and economy in recent years, that was because he followed Quranic prescriptions with regards to interest rates, but there’s nothing in the Quran against war profiteering, or is there?)
OLD GUY says
ERDOGAN, trusting him is like believing that HITLER loved the Jewish people. He’s a DICTATOR plain and simple.
gravenimage says
Turkey playing major role in Russia-Ukraine war
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Utter insanity. Erdogan hates all Infidels.