Russian Telegram sources report with anonymous diplomatic references that the visit of Russian President Putin to Turkey may be postponed again and take place not in the April-May period, but in June or later. The reason, according to publications, is that the parties have certain disagreements in terms of agreeing on the agenda of the visit, the issues to be discussed and their content.
Putin’s visit to Turkey has been postponed for months. The Turkish side announced about it back in February, but later the visit was moved after the election of the Russian president, then after the local government election in Turkey and the inauguration ceremony of the Russian president, and now they are talking about June. Moreover, it is noticeable that Turkey has high expectations for the visit and Russia is not particularly enthusiastic.
Moreover, the complexity of disagreements was evident in Erdogan’s condolence phone call to Putin on the occasion of terrorism. In the version spread by Turkey, it was mentioned that Erdogan expressed his condolences and noted that terrorism shows the need to settle regional conflicts as quickly as possible. Of course, Putin will know the bottom line, but it is noteworthy that after that it is announced that the visit can be postponed again. This means that the phone conversation did not bring the parties closer, but pushed them further apart. T:
and how much, it is not clear. That circumstance naturally receives attention in Armenia, and in some sense also with a certain enthusiasm that this removal or freezing weakens Armenia’s challenges, which were generated by Russian-Turkish agreements. On the one hand, it is certainly so, on the other hand, there is the following. If the Russian-Turkish agreements in the region squeeze Armenia, then the Russian-Turkish freezing can open a space and create the opposite: the danger and risks of a vacuum. In other words, from one extreme, we can find ourselves in another extreme and dangerous situation.
Of course, Armenia does not decide the regime of Russian-Turkish relations, but for Armenia, the cooling caused by that regime certainly requires vigilance as much as the warming requires. Because it is absolutely not necessary to exclude the fact that Russian-Turkish freezing is a mutually acceptable regime for Ankara and Moscow, in order to capitalize on that regime in other directions. Moreover, as he noticed a few days ago, Erdogan’s visit to Washington and meeting with President Biden was announced in May. In the article published in this regard, I raised the question whether Putin’s visit to Turkey will be before that meeting or after it. And here is the information spread yesterday that the visit is being postponed again and Putin will probably leave for Turkey after May. That is, after Erdogan’s visit to Washington.
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