“The issue of the exchange of prisoners was discussed for more than three months. At first there were 15 names on the list, but in the end it was possible to exchange five Azov commanders. This was stated by the press secretary of the Turkish President Ibrahim Kalin in an interview with CNN Türk.
He noted that Recep Tayyip Erdogan was very warm about this issue of exchange.
“We discussed this issue with our colleagues for about 3-3.5 months. We could not agree on 15 names. The list did not reach Lviv, where the presidents of Turkey and Ukraine met. At the very end, these were reduced to 5 names. These are these. 5 people will remain safe with us until the end of the war, ”said Kalin.
According to him, this list was discussed during the visit of Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Lviv, and then it was discussed during the meeting of the Turkish leader with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Samarkand.