Russian President Vladimir Putin tried to dissuade world leaders from participating in the Crimean Platform summit. In particular, the Russian president persuaded to abandon this idea of the leader of Turkey Recep Erdogan. Such a statement in an interview with the publication “Crimea. Realia” was made by the leader of the Crimean Tatar people Mustafa Dzhemilev.
According to Dzhemilev, Niger and the Republic of Congo at the last moment abandoned the summit. Ghana also planned to participate in the summit, but for “technical reasons” I could not.
The leader of the Crimean Tatars noted that the Russian president allegedly persuaded the President of Turkey Erdogan to refuse to participate in the Crimean Platform, and in return promised to open the flow of tourists to Turkey. “They told me that Putin told Erdogan: they say, we will open the flow of tourists, we will expand trading, if only Turkey would not participate in the summit. And Erdogan says: my relatives live there; I will tell them that I exchanged them for tourists? And then Ukraine? And then Ukraine? “Our neighbor, and the neighbors should help each other on the Qur’an. And this time he himself spoke with a good speech,” said Dzhemilev.