Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday slammed Russia’s recognition of Ukraine’s breakaway regions as “unacceptable” in comments carried by the official Anadolu news agency.
“We consider the decision unacceptable,” said Erdogan, who is currently in Senegal.
“We invite the parties concerned to act with common sense and comply with the international law.”
Erdogan, who has friendly ties with both Russia and Ukraine, has sought to host the two countries’ leaders for a three-way summit in Turkey to ease tensions.
He visited Kyiv earlier this month for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky whom he said looked “favorably” to a Turkey-hosted summit.
And he was expecting a response from Russian President Vladimir Putin
