Putin and Erdogan meet in Kazakhstan to discuss war in Ukraine
According to the Kremlin, Russian presidents Vladimir Putin and Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet this Thursday in Astana to discuss the war in Ukraine and a possible negotiation between Moscow and the West. The bilateral meeting, which will take place on the margins of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Measures in Asia (CICA), attended by more than twenty heads of state and government, will be the fourth between the two leaders this year.
They met face-to-face in Tehran in July, in the Russian resort town of Sochi in August, and in the Uzbek city of Samarkand in September. The two leaders talk on the phone frequently as Erdogan tries to act as a mediator in the Ukraine war, with Ankara diplomatically supporting Kiev, but without imposing sanctions on Russia and maintaining good relations with Moscow.