Putin Plans to Leave Russia to Visit NATO Ally
Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to leave the country to meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on an undisclosed date.
“The president of Turkey has confirmed his invitation to our president to visit Turkey,” Putin aide Yuri Ushakov told Russian Interfax.
“There are plans, but specific terms have not been discussed yet.”
The pair were last together in person in July 2022 in Tehran, Iran, joined by Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, for discussions about a potential alliance as a result of galvanization in the West following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022.
That was Putin’s second trip outside the country since the start of the war.
His first, in June of last year, was to Tajikistan and Turkmenistan to meet with Raisi, Turkmen President Serdar Berdimuhamedov, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev for the sixth iteration of the Caspian Summit.
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