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Russian President Vladimir Putin may visit his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan later this month, Turkish media reported today, as Ankara seeks to revive the Black Sea grain deal.
Erdogan's cabinet will meet on Monday to discuss "Russian President Vladimir Putin's possible visit to Turkey later this month," pro-government daily Hürriyet reported.
During Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's visit to Istanbul last month, the Turkish president announced that Putin would travel to Turkey in August to discuss extending the agreement that allowed Ukraine to continue exporting its agricultural goods through the Black Sea after the Russian invasion. in full scale.
But the deal, brokered by the United Nations and Turkey in the wake of last year's invasion, ended last month after Russia unilaterally pulled out of the deal.
Erdogan has played a strategic balancing act over the course of Russia's war. While widely condemning the illegality of Putin's occupation and the sale of Turkish-made drones to Ukrainian forces, Ankara has also emerged as a key avenue for evading sanctions and is keen not to alienate Moscow because of its heavy energy dependence on Russia.
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