The meeting between Russian and Turkish Presidents Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan was scheduled for mid-December / Alexey Nikolsky / RIA Novosti

There will be no Russian-Turkish summit in the near future, it is not planned. As reported by the Vedomosti correspondent, this was stated to journalists on December 14 by the presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov. The meeting of the presidents of Russia and Turkey Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan was scheduled for mid-December and was to take place in St. Petersburg. An agreement on this was reached at the G20 summit in Antalya. At the end of November, Peskov said that at that time the meeting had not been officially cancelled, although there were many questions "in the air" about the possibility of such an event, and that holding the summit was in doubt.

Earlier, the head of Rossotrudnichestvo Lyubov Glebova announced the cancellation of the Russian-Turkish forum, TASS recalls . The forum - the High-Level Cooperation Council - was planned after the meeting of the two presidents. As co-chair of the forum, Glebova specified that now the forum will begin work after the summit meeting and this postponement "does not mean that we are curtailing or reducing Russian-Turkish relations."

Also, the presidents of Russia and Turkey did not meet in Paris at the climate summit on November 30.

On November 24, a Russian Su-24 bomber was shot down in Syria. Putin called it a big mistake by Ankara and a stab in the back after all the agreements reached. In his address to the Federal Assembly in December, the president noted that the Turks would not get off with just "tomatoes." At the Defense Ministry board meeting on December 11, he ordered the military in Syria to immediately destroy everything that threatened them.

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"It is very difficult to repair the devastating damage to bilateral relations. This [the downed Su-24] is too serious an incident with very serious inevitable consequences. We valued our bilateral relations very much - partnership, mutually beneficial and promising. Naturally, we are still waiting for realistic explanations from the Turkish side," Peskov said on November 26. On the same day, Putin said that the Russian side expects Turkey to make a "clear apology," a promise to punish "the criminals for the crime they committed," and offers to compensate for the damage. Since then, Moscow and Ankara have exchanged accusations of buying contraband oil from the Islamic State (a group banned in Russia). Russia accused the Turkish side of supporting terrorists; Turkey, on the one hand, spoke out in favor of reconciliation, but also advised Moscow not to play with fire. Russia imposed economic sanctions against Turkey.

On December 13, the Russian Navy patrol ship Smetlivy fired small arms at a Turkish fishing seiner in the Aegean Sea, which was dangerously approaching the ship and did not respond to attempts to contact it or visual signals. After this, the Russian Defense Ministry summoned the Turkish military attaché and told him that such provocative actions were unacceptable. The captain of the seiner then said that he had decided that the ship was NATO and did not even realize that his vessel was being shot at. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Sunday that Ankara is against maintaining tensions. In his opinion, the consequences of the incident should be overcome through dialogue ( quotes from Daily Sabah).

On December 14, President Erdogan - before Peskov's conversation with journalists - stated that Ankara supports the development of strategic relations with Russia, which have been successfully developing over the past 10-11 years, and expressed a desire for the parties to "fix everything" in the near future ( quotes from TASS). He named the Russian pilot's error as the cause of the incident with the Su-24. On the same day, Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN Vitaly Churkin did not rule out that Moscow could raise the issue of imposing sanctions against Turkey in the UN Security Council for purchasing contraband oil from the "Islamic State".