there Turkey opens a chasm that has only partially emerged between the various powers that make it up Born. And it risks inaugurating a new series of confrontation with the United Statesnot only in the context of the conflict in Ukrainewhich has been running for years and sees the connections To fly and Ankara Point of friction between the two main powers of the alliance. This time it’s the foreign minister who’s making a fresh start Mevlut Cavusogluwho explained in an interview with CNN Turk that “some countries within NATO They want the war to continuethey want them Russia is getting weaker“.
No direct reference, but it is evident that the message is aimed particularly at the two powers that have been pushing hard for support for Ukraine during these two months of conflict, abandoning any attempt at mediation between the Europeans and the other Wladimir Putin with statements aimed at conflict from the start: United States and Great Britain. Totally opposite approach to that of the country Recep Tayyip Erdogan which, on the other hand, was trying to work out a even before the invasion ordered by Putin role of mediator between the parties, inviting the two leaders of Russia and Ukraine to a meeting a Istanbul for peace talks given its privileged relationship with both the alliance of which it is a part and with Russia, although it has called the Kremlin’s actions in Ukraine “unacceptable”. The first meeting of foreign ministers of Russia and Ukraine also took place in Turkey. Sergey Lavrov and Dmytro Kulebawhile in the past few weeks the delegations from Moscow and Kyiv met for talks in the city on the Bosporus.
During these two months of conflict, Ankara has repeatedly demonstrated its willingness to avoid a clear line on one side or the other and to maintain a sort of neutrality it hopes to enforce at a possible negotiating table. As a member of NATO, like other countries that are part of the pact, he handed over the infamous to Kyiv Bayraktar Battle Drones responsible for destroying dozens of Russian tanks. At the same time, however, it is one of the few countries that has decided to do so not to impose sanctions on the federal government.