Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, according to the results of 2022, can be called the most successful world politician, the newspaper Kommersant writes.
“All months since the beginning of the Russian military operation in Ukraine, it remains over the fight and retains the status of an almost non -alternative intermediary between the parties to the conflict, receiving both political and considerable economic dividends. And this makes the presidential and parliamentary ones planned for 2023 Elections in Turkey is a fateful foreign policy event: if Mr. Erdogan loses, the entire established model of interaction in a large region will have to be seriously reviewed, ”the article says.
The article of the Russian publication also notes that over the past 12 months, the Turkish leader has been an intermediary between Russia and Ukraine. In addition, Erdogan’s position in the international arena makes the upcoming presidential elections in Turkey fateful for world politics, the author of the article notes.
The article notes that “Recep Tayyip Erdogan has long become a unique partner for both Russia and the West. Earlier, for example, he found the opportunity to purchase Russian S-400 missile systems, despite the anger of NATO allies, as well as Together with the Russian colleague Vladimir Putin, he took up the department of influence zones in Syria. In parallel with this, the Turkish leader negotiated with the United States on the purchase of F -16 fighters, and also sold Ukraine drones of Bayraktar – at the end of 2018, few could think that they would be applied in direct combat clashes with Russia. “
In a large -scale study of the Russian foreign trade, The New York Times indicates that the turnover between Moscow and Ankara with the outbreak of war in Ukraine grew (according to October) by 198%.
The article indicates that “if earlier the words of Erdogan periodically got into the headlines of the Russian media, that he never recognizes Crimea by the territory of Russia, now some statements are even more defiant for Moscow.” For example, he said that Russia should not bear any territorial acquisitions from the Ukrainian conflict … When the Russian troops retreated to the left bank of the Dnieper, the Turkish president said: “The last decision of the Russian side on Kherson is a positive moment, a significant decision.” There was no official reaction of Moscow to these words. A special approach to Turkey manifested itself when the Russian Foreign Ministry expressed bewilderment in connection with the supply of a party of generators for Ukraine Azerbaijan. A few days before, the Turkish company announced its intention to moor in the Odessa port of several floating power plants – and there was no Moscow reaction … In the summer, Kyiv and Ankara agreed on the construction of the Bayraktar drone factory in Ukraine, and one of the founders of the company Haluk Bayractar even He stated that this cooperation is more ideological than commercial. “