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#Russia_Turkey: Relations with Turkey differ in many ways from Russia's with China. In recent phone conversations between Putin and Erdogan, they made no mention of Western sanctions at all. Although Ankara faces sanctions from the US, those coming from the EU are rolling back⤵️
Russia would be happy to replicate the anti-Western talks it has with China in the Turkish direction. But Turkey has little desire to enter into a confrontational relationship with the West. However, Turkey sees in the partnership with Russia cooperation in the joint supply & ⤵️
joint production of Sputnik V (including to attract Russian tourists), security cooperation in Karabakh, Syria and Libya and support in the construction of the Istanbul canal, along with the existing ones (1936 Montreux Convention regarding the regime of the Straits).
