Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan demonstrated a master class on how to negotiate with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian publicist, analyst and political analyst Andrei Piontkovsky said on Freed.
According to him, earlier Russia announced the exit from the grain agreement, but after negotiations with Turkey, it sharply changed its position.
“a very indicative lesson, the master class gave the Western leaders Erdogan how to talk with Putin,” the political scientist emphasized.
He recalled that on November 1, the Kremlin stated that they were leaving the “grain transaction”, they told how to destroy the ports in Odessa and Ochakovo, torpedoing the ships. “And now … Putin said that he resumes a grain agreement. A conversation with Erdogan was very working. Moreover, it is significant that all decisions and statements were public as a result of the contacts of the Minister of Defense of Turkey and the Minister of Defense of Russia,” the Russian political scientist said.
According to him, Ankara reminded Moscow who is the master in the Black Sea and what the Turkish navy is capable of. Andrei Piontkovsky noted that Recep Tayyip Erdogan clearly announced his ambitions in the region during the Second Karabakh War, where he openly supported Azerbaijan.
“Erdogan showed that he was an alpha male once and for all during the Karabakh war, when he openly supported his ally-Azerbaijan … Then there were still some conversations about the Second Army in the world, but a demonstration of the state of the Russian army In Ukraine, it shows what Turkey would do with the Russian army nearby … ”said Piontkovsky.