Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to hold a phone conversation with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday.
It will be their first phone conversation after a number of major events, including the termination of the grain deal and Ankara’s decision to transfer leaders of the Azov nationalist battalion (deemed a terrorist organization and outlawed in Russia) to Ukraine.
The Russian leader first announced his plans to talk to Erdogan by phone on July 29, during a media briefing to sum up the results of the Russia-Africa summit. According to the Russian president, the two leaders were planning to talk to each other at an earlier date, but failed to find a convenient time, eventually setting the conversation for August 2.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed the plans on Monday.
The previous phone conversation between the leaders of Russia and Turkey took place on June 24, when Putin informed his Turkish counterpart about the situation in his country in connection with an attempted mutiny. Overall, Putin and Erdogan have already had nine phone conversations this year. In April, they jointly participated via a video linkup in a ceremony to load nuclear fuel into the Akkuyu nuclear power plant that Russia is building in Turkey.
Their latest in-person meeting took place in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana in October 2022.
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