The Presidents of Russia and Turkey, Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, met face-to-face for the first time in 18 months in the Russian seaport city of Sochi at Putin’s sprawling estate.
Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told TASS that the two leaders discuss economic and international relations, with the situation in Syria being high on the agenda.
While neither leader made a statement to the press nor was there the customary joint press conference after the meeting, the two leaders reportedly also discussed the Karabakh conflict.
Putin referenced the activities of the joint Turkey-Russia Center for the Monitoring of the Ceasefire Regime in Nagorno-Karabakh, located in Aghdam, saying that Russian-Turkish cooperation on this issue is a “serious guarantee for stability” in the region.
According to Peskov, Putin thanked Erdogan for the visit, calling it “useful and substantive.”
Erdogan called the meeting “productive” in a post on the Telegram social media platform. “After fruitful talks with my colleague Putin, we left Sochi,” added the Turkish leader.
It was the first in-person meeting for Putin in more than two weeks. On Sept. 14, the Russian president went into self-isolation after a staff member he worked in close contact with contracted coronavirus. Peskov confirmed to reporters that the two-week self-isolation ended for Putin on Wednesday.
Two cunning foxes, well more like two wolves in sheep’s clothing, discussing how to watch over their hen houses!
Also, Iran is conducting an unprecedented military drill on its Northwestern border region, a.k.a. an ancient Armenian region of the former kingdom of Armenia, which is a great news and our pseudo-Turkish Azerbaijani racist arch-enemy chicken-hawk Ilham Aliyev is quite nervous and rightfully so for entertaining Iran’s arch-enemy Israel on its artificial territory right next door to Iran. Not to mention blocking and harassing Iranian truck drivers passing into Armenia and encouraging separatist movements among Iran’s Turkish-speaking Persian populations by his and his terrorist collaborator Er-dog-an’s pan-Turkic and pan-Turanic fascist slogans. As an ally of Syrian president Assad, Iran should also flex its muscles by sending special forces to Northern Syria to ambush and wipe out Turkish terrorists stationed there!