Turkish President Erdogan refused to report to the EU for participation in the SCO summit. Ankara does not intend to report to the European Union (EU) for participation in the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). This statement was made by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in an interview with PBS. “The European Union will hold us back for 52 years, won’t let us get close to it, and then asks: ‘Why did he meet with this country, why did he meet with another?’ I will negotiate. While conducting these negotiations, we are not currently accountable to the European Union,” the Turkish leader stressed.
Russia is willing to end the conflict in Ukraine as soon as possible, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told PBS in an interview on Monday.
Asked by a PBS reporter how quickly he saw the conflict ending, the Turkish leader said "most importantly, Russian attitude will be very, very important here."
"In Uzbekistan, I got together with [Russian] President [Vladimir] Putin, and we had very extensive discussions with him," Erdogan said in the interview. According to Erdogan, the Russian leader showed him "that he's willing to end this as soon as possible.".
"The way things are going right now are quite problematic," PBS quoted the Turkish president as saying. "I think a significant step will be taken forward." "All <…> what we want to see is to end this battle with peace," he concluded.
