Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was received on Wednesday June 8 in Ankara. The opportunity for the Turkish press to recall the special relationship between the two countries and to come back to some hot topics. “Welcome to NATO airspace, dear to Mr. Lavrov,” headlined an editorial in the Islamo-conservative daily on June 8. New Dawn in reference to the rout encountered the week before by Lavrov, who, wanting to go to Serbia, was refused the flight over Montenegro, Bulgaria and North Macedonia.
Although a member of NATO, Ankara has not followed the same path: “After the humiliation it suffered, Turkey, NATO’s second power [en nombre de militaires], opens its doors to him. Hope this puts him in a good mood. […] on the issue of gas and nuclear energy, Syria, the Caucasus, trade and tourism. Russia and Turkey have a relationship of vital importance,” recalls the newspaper.
Project of a “wheat corridor” in the Black Sea
On the program of these Russian-Turkish discussions was