Time.news – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan harshly criticizes Western countriesi for the policies implemented since the beginning of the war in Ukraine.
The Turkish leader has it for everyone, who first he speaks of a “provocative policy” towards Russiaa strategy he has said “openly” not to share, in full contrast to the “balanced position taken by Turkey”, which will continue along the same path.
Erdogan, who sought mediation from the beginning, managing to get the two countries to talk and mediate for the passage of Ukrainian wheat across the Black Sea, said “not to feel victorious”, for a very simple reason, “peace appears far away”.
And if it appears distant, it is also because of the “provocative” approach taken by the West, which it maintains “attitude of disdain” towards Russia, a country that “we cannot disdain”only to find ourselves later, remembers the Turkish leader, to “deal with the gas problem”.
Words that could also have been expected because they were spoken in Belgrade on the sidelines of a meeting with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, in a country that has always been pro-Russian which, like Turkey, has avoided applying sanctions against Moscow.
However, Erdogan went much further, accusing the lack of effectiveness of the aid sent to Ukraine.
Erdogan not only always took sides openly against the Russian attack and never accepted the Russian annexation of Crimea, but he also TB2 Bayraktar drones sent to Kiev, indigestible to the Russians since the days of Libya and deadly in slowing the Moscow offensive in the Donbass.
What about the West instead? “You don’t even need to list them”, the countries that instead of arms sent “the old irons that were found”while all the money that the various countries do not fail to remember having collected and sent “no one knows where it went”.
Erdogan certainly had some pebbles to take off his shoes for some time, left alone in the attempt of mediation at the beginning and also in the negotiation for the grain aislewhere it had the full support, paradoxically the only one, of the United Nations alone.
During a recent visit to Lviv, Ukraine, on the sidelines of a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky, the Turkish leader had launched an appeal for the international community to take the field to seek a political solution to the conflict.
This appeal has evidently led to nothing, just as the trafficking of delegations and heads of state from all over the world into Ankara in recent months has not been followed up from a diplomatic point of view.