Russian TV is airing footage of Turkey's President Erdogan being kept waiting for almost 2 minutes by Vladimir Putin before their meeting in Moscow last week pic.twitter.com/BQNoNbffNl
— BBC Monitoring (@BBCMonitoring) March 9, 2020
Deal including ‘safety corridor’ preserves some Assad gains, while keeping Turkish foothold
Russia and Turkey have said they have agreed to a ceasefire in Syria’s Idlib province after clashes left scores of Turkish and Syrian soldiers dead in a dangerous escalation of violence.
Aynı salon, aynı Putin farklı heyetler
Zimbabve, Sırbistan, Yunanistan ve Türkiye pic.twitter.com/dpDutWN164— Levent Tamer (@LvntTmr) March 6, 2020
Incredible. Can there be any greater symbol of the war than this peace deal, which mentions neither the Syrian government nor opposition, and ends by saying the document is valid in "Turkish, Russian and English". No version in Arabic, the language I always thought Syrians spoke. https://t.co/WZtrWkS76s
— Richard Spencer (@RichardJSpencer) March 5, 2020
Erdoğan to hold talks with EU officials in bid to revise migrant deal
Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca has said that he told an Iranian delegation planning to visit Turkey to not come, but suggested talking over Skype instead, amid the coronavirus outbreak in Iran.
Criticizing Iranian authorities, Koca said that the country started to take the outbreak seriously until it was too late.
So humiliating! Putin really made clear who's the boss. Who is a geopolitical and who is just a regional power. https://t.co/qEoBU2AdUV
— Frank Nordhausen (@NordhausenFrank) March 9, 2020
https://twitter.com/uzobey/status/1235586274926432256?s=09
Hardcore trolling (messaging?) by #Kremlin protocol to #Erdogan while on visit to #Moscow
1. Statue of Catherine the Great (defeated Ottomans in 1768-74 and 1787-92, annexed Crimea in 1783)
2. Bronze sculpture feat. #Russia/n soldiers who defeated #Turkey in Bulgaria in 1877-1878 pic.twitter.com/mqndQafO3I— Maxim A. Suchkov (@m_suchkov) March 6, 2020
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