Erdogan is ready to meet with Putin "in the very near future"

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced his readiness to meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin "in the very near future." He told about this in a telephone conversation with the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, according to a message on the website of the Kazakh leader.

It notes that the telephone conversation took place on the initiative of the Turkish side. The heads of the two states exchanged views on a crisis situation in Syria and an incident with the Russian Su-24M aircraft shot down by the Turkish Air Force on the Turkish-Syrian border last week.

"The President of Kazakhstan expressed regrets about what happened," the report said. It also notes that Nazarbayev expressed “concern of the deterioration of Russian-Turkish relations” that occurred after the incident with the aircraft. He emphasized that the connections between the Russian Federation and Turkey were lined up for many years, and urged to create a bilateral commission to resolve the situation.

Press Secretary of Vladimir Putin said that the meeting of the presidents of the Russian Federation and Turkey is not planned. In addition, the two leaders “not listed in the schedule”, quoted by Dmitry Peskov “Interfax” .

After the incident with the plane, Putin described the actions of the Turkish authorities as a “blow to the back” and demanded official apologies from Ankara. However, Erdogan refused to bring them, defending the correctness of the actions of the Turkish Air Force.

He also stated that almost immediately after the incident with the Su-24 shot down by the Russian bomber, he called Putin, but he refused the conversation. The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Sergei Lavrov, said that Erdogan Putin had no phone call . However, Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that there was a call. He also said that the Russian president was reported to Erdogan’s request to meet on November 30 in Paris at the UN Climate conference. Peskov could not clarify whether Putin had consent to the meeting. Putin’s unwillingness to communicate with his colleague, the assistant to the Russian leader, Yuri Ushakov, explained this: "We see the unpreparedness of the Turkish side to go to an elementary apology in connection with the incident with the plane." At the same time, Reuters, surrounded by Erdogan, stated that the meeting of the two leaders in Paris was likely, but the parties could not agree on time.

The other day, Erdogan still expressed regret in connection with the incident with the Russian bomber. Meanwhile, Putin signed a decree on special economic measures against Turkey. On the Russian side, tourist trips to Turkey were banned , the Foreign Ministry announced the upcoming abolition of a visa -free regime , and the military stopped all the contacts . Inside Russia, the problems began with the suppliers of Turkish goods .