...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
against what he said were attempts to fuel "militaristic sentiment" in Ukraine after Ankara moved to boost cooperation with Kyiv.
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...last month pledged support to Kyiv amid a buildup of Russian forces along its border with Ukraine.
Erdogan said at the time that Turkey, a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants...
member, and Ukraine had launched a platform with their foreign and defense ministers to discuss defense industry cooperation, but added that this was "not in any way a move against third countries".
"We strongly recommend that our
He said that encouraging "aggressive" Ukrainian actions towards Russian-annexed Crimea amounted to encroachment on Russia’s territorial integrity.
"We hope Ankara will adjust its line based on our legitimate concerns."
Turkey, along with the rest of NATO, criticized Moscow’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and voiced support for Ukraine’s territorial integrity as Kyiv’s forces battle pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.
Turkey, which faces Ukraine and Russia across the Black Sea to the north, also sold drones to Kyiv in 2019.
But Ankara has also forged close cooperation with Moscow over conflicts in Syria, Libya, and Nagorno-Karabakh as well as in the areas of defense and energy.
Moscow’s ties with the West have languished at post-Cold War lows since the annexation of Crimea, which resulted in a flurry of sanctions being imposed against Russia.