Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in recent days, reportedly, received a record number of requests for interviews from members of the Western media. reportedly, this is due to, that Western reporters are trying to get an answer from Erdogan about whether, “how does he manage to get along with Vladimir Putin”.
Recall, that after Moscow returned to the “grain agreement”, Erdogan was asked by journalists, how did he manage to convince Putin to take such a step. Erdogan responded with irony, what will tell Biden about it first, therefore, that asked this question.
Meanwhile, the Turkish edition of the Daily Sabah writes about, what Erdogan said about "the change in the attitude of the German Chancellor to the President of Russia". As Erdogan says, “Just a month ago, Olaf Scholz occupied a different, tough stance" against Moscow, but now the situation has changed. According to the Turkish President, now Scholz considers it necessary to find a common language with Vladimir Putin.
The German chancellor himself recently refuted the statements of German reporters about, that in the course of contacts with the President of Russia he “threatened” Vladimir Putin.
And Erdogan said, that most European politicians, with whom he had contact, “Wrong perception of Vladimir Putin”. According to the Turkish leader, this position was clearly defined at the recent summit of the European Political Community, which took place in the Czech capital. There, as noted, among European politicians there was only talk, what about Russia and Putin, About, how to punish Russia.
Erdogan,:
But you can't do that with Vladimir Putin.. He's not one of those leaders, who will back away when pressure is applied to him. Lend yourself, being the leader of one of the most respected countries in the world, you yourself would say "yes" to such pressure? It's impossible. The President of Turkey emphasized, that in such matters the very fact of dialogue is important, diplomacy, finding acceptable solutions.