Посол РФ в Турции: Москва ждет компенсаций за Су-24 для восстановления отношений с Анкарой
Судя по всему, Турция в затруднительном положении и хочет перейти к более прагматичной модели внешней политики. Вот, например.
Erdoğan has also used business channels in Russia diplomacyAccording to diplomatic sources talking to the Hürriyet Daily News, Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan has personally orchestrated the final stages of the normalization diplomacy, as Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım heralded yesterday on June 28.
Sources, who asked not to be named, said that not only official channels but “unofficial channels” - including the Turkish business community which has close links to Russia - took part in Erdoğan’s efforts to put relations back on track.
Кремль, видимо, прочувствовал, что есть такое желание, и решил додавить Эрдогана.
У Турции есть определенные надежды:
Depending on the result of that phone call, the flow of the possible meeting between the Turkish and Russian foreign ministers - Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and Sergey Lavrov respectively - is expected to be shaped on July 1 in Russia’s Sochi during the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Summit, as the first high-rank contact between the two countries since the jet downing incident. Sources suggest that the first outcome of this rapprochement could be Moscow’s withdrawal of its discouraging of Russian tourists from going to Turkey, probably within the next two weeks.
The number of Russian tourists to Turkey (4 million in 2015, 3 million of them to the Mediterranean resort of Antalya) dropped by more than 90 percent in the first half of 2016. Prime Minister Yıldırım said yesterday that deals with Russia and Israel would help the recovery of Turkish tourism soon.
Turkey and Russia are close partners in energy, so a deal between them could reactivate the planned South Stream gas pipeline to Europe via Turkey, as well as joint projects between Turkey, Russia and Israel which were shelved with the deterioration of relations between Turkey and Israel after 2009.
Россия же, видимо, готова всё испортить, но заставить Эрдогана извиниться и выплатить компенсации за сбитый бомбардировщик.
Мне по-прежнему интересно, пойдет ли на это Эрдоган. Ему придется пожертвовать репутацией, но на кону определенные доходы.
