Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Monday ruled out the possibility of Ankara joining the US and European Union sanctions program against Russia in connection with its invasion of Ukraine.
Cavusoglu said the Ankara government would not join “one-sided” sanctions against Moscow in an attempt to maintain a neutral position on the issue, the head of Turkish diplomacy told Lider Haber TV channel.
In this sense, the minister stressed that Turkey will continue to “take into account” the interests of its own country, cherishing the well-being of Turkey, which is running for elections this month.
“We enforce the Montreux Convention,” Cavusoglu said, referring to the international agreement on maritime traffic in the Bosporus and Dardanelles, which regulates the navigation of foreign warships.
The head of Ankara’s diplomacy directly criticized the comments of Turkey’s main opponent, Kemal Kılıçdaroglu, who recently admitted that if he wins the next elections on May 14, he gives “priority to relations with the West, not with the Kremlin.”
For Cavusoglu, this is an incoherent statement because, as Minister Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu accused, he had said in the past “that he would not do anything that could threaten relations between Turkey and Russia.”
On May 14, general and presidential elections are held in Turkey.
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Source: CM Jornal
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