Erdogan visits Kiev as Turkiye attempts to ease Ukraine-Russia strains

KIEV 03 FEBURARY 2022 (VOE WORLD) 

Turkiye's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is visiting Kiev at the greeting of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as Ankara puts forth political attempts to facilitate a deadlock among Russia and Ukraine.

Erdogan's Thursday visit comes in the setting of Turkiye proposing to play go between in the continuous emergency.

In front of his takeoff from Ankara, Erdogan said: "We desire to stop any type of a showdown among Russia and Ukraine."

In Kiev, Erdogan and Zelenskyy will go to the tenth gathering of the High-Level Strategic Council between their nations.

The different sides will trade sees on territorial and worldwide issues and talk about opportunities for additional extending respective collaboration.

They are likewise expected to consent to different arrangements and memoranda of comprehension, including a notable international alliance.

"Our relations with Ukraine have enrolled wonderful advancement lately based on shared arrangement, trust and normal interests," the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in an assertion on Thursday, denoting the 30th year of conciliatory ties.

The assertion added that the relations, which are as of now at the degree of vital organization, contribute "to the harmony, solidness and flourishing of our area".

It underlined Turkiye's help for Ukraine's regional respectability and power, while repeating that Ankara doesn't perceive the "unlawful addition of Crimea".

In front of Erdogan's visit, Turkish Presidential Spokesperson Ibrahim Kalin and US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan examined the emergency in Ukraine.

The White House said in an assertion on Tuesday that the two authorities talked with regards to their obligation to "discourage further Russian hostility against Ukraine".

Turkiye presented in November to intercede in the emergency, and political sources said last month both Russia and Ukraine were available to the possibility of Ankara making a difference.

Turkiye is an oceanic neighbor of both Ukraine and Russia, in the Black Sea, and has great binds with both.

Erdogan has said already Turkiye doesn't need a conflict among Russia and Ukraine and expectations the issue will be settled calmly.

With Russia positioning around 100,000 soldiers close to Ukraine's boundary, the West feelings of trepidation that Moscow is arranging an attack. Russia denies the charge and says it is allowed to move its soldiers inside its region.