The United States highly appreciates Turkey’s efforts to terminate the Putin’s “barbaric war” in Ukraine, said the representative of the State Department of NED Price, the American correspondent Turan.
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“Throughout this conflict, Turkey tried to use its relations with Ukraine and Russia in addition to its position of NATO member and good relations with the international community to promote the prospects of the world,” Price said at a daily briefing, answering a question whose question is, to whose The side was Ankara.
“Turkey was a constructive player in an attempt to establish a dialogue, constructive diplomacy,” said Price.
The comments of the American side appeared after Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday called on Putin to announce a unilateral ceasefire to promote peace negotiations in Ukraine.
In a telephone conversation with the Kremlin leader, Erdogan recalled the “positive results” of negotiations on the exchange of prisoners, efforts to protect the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant and the Black Sea grain initiative.
It is noteworthy that this is the first time when the Turkish leader urged the Kremlin to suspend the fighting without the obligation of Ukraine to do the same.
Price said: “Of course, it is President Putin that will have to listen to the calls of President Erdogan and many other colleagues around the world in order to put an end to a meaningless war.”
Then he added: “No one more Ukrainians want this war to end, but the fact is that Russia remains the only obstacle to the world, and President Putin again and again demonstrates that he has no such intentions.”
as reported, from now on the State Department will use the name “Türkiye” in its public speeches and documents. The Turkish Embassy asked the United States to use this spelling, which was approved by the US Council by geographical names.