Russian President Vladimir Putin says a lot of ground must be covered until relations between Moscow and Ankara are fully healed. Relations between Russia and Turkey soured after Turkey downed a Russian jet close to the Syrian border in 2015. "There is still a lot to do in order to completely re-establish cooperation in all areas," said Putin ...

Alwaght- It was very hard to imagine only after 7 months from the attack on the Russian SU-24 aircraft by Turkeys F-16 fighter (24th of November, 2015) which damaged the relations between Russia and Turkey and started war of words between Erdogan and Putin, the situation would change to the point that in Erdogans visit to Russia in 8th of July,...

Ankara says that an emergency hotline between the offices of the Turkish and Russian army commandersis to be established to avoid unwanted incidents similar tothe last year's downing of a Russian jet by Turkish fighter planes. We have agreed to be in close contact in order to avoid such incidents. In this frame, our chief of general staff and ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan are holding a meeting in the Russian city of St. Petersburg on Tuesday. ST. PETERSBURG (Sputnik) The two presidents, who began the talks witha handshake, are meeting forthe first time sinceTurkey's downing ofa Russian warplane inNovember 2015. Russian President ...

The speed of fluctuations in relations between Russia and Turkey during the past year has been one of the thought-provoking phenomena amid rapid developments of the Middle East, which has been unexpected for many people. Before the breakout of the ongoing crisis in Syria, Ankara was considered as a regional ally for Moscow and both countries pointed ...

The Kremlin said on Friday it did not rule out that Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan could meet before a G20 summit scheduled for September in China. "It looks like now there will be a month or more of pretty intense contacts (with Turkey on restoring ties)," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a conference ...

Tehran, June 30, IRNA Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said that the Islamic Republic welcomes the process of normalization of relations between Ankara and Moscow. 'The Islamic republic of Iran welcomes the will and recent measures of the leaders of the two neighboring countries (Russia and Turkey) in order to begin the normalization trend ...

Turkey apologized for the shooting down of a Russian war plane last year, Russian President Vladimir Putin told a meeting with Russian diplomats on Thursday. Officials in Ankara say they had expressed regret but stopped short of apologizing. By Reuters

President Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian government to launch the process of restoring cooperation with Turkey, including in the spheres of trade and economic ties, after phone conversation with his Turkey counterpart earlier in the day, the Kremlin said Wednesday. "The Russian leader said that he would instruct the government tostart negotiations ...

The Turkish opposition has harshly criticized President Recep Tayyip Erdogans recent political maneuvers, including the normalization of ties with Israel. Opposition parties on Tuesday blasted Recep Tayyip Erdogans recent back-to-back reconciliation with Israel and expression of regret over the downing of a Russian jet by Turkey, Hrriyet Daily ...

President Vladimir Putin will have a phone conversation with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayip Erdogan, on Wednesday the first since Russia-Turkey relations became strained after last years downing of a Russian jet over Syria, the Kremlin reports. The phone conversation between President Putin and President Erdogan will take place tomorrow [on ...

Alwaght- In sudden turnaround, Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has apologized over the downing of a Russian jet last year that ruined the countries relations. Erdogan expressed readiness to restore relations with Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday. Russian President Vladimir Putin has received a letter in which his ...

A senior Russian official says Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogans apology for the last years downing of a Russian military jetis too late and too little, and is the result of his failed foreign policies. "If you follow normal sensible logic, all this should have happened immediately after the incident and even better if that incident had ...

Recent remarks by Turkeys President Recep Tayyip Erdogan about political and economic costs of tensions in bilateral relations between Russia and Turkey and a subsequent letter sent to Russian President Vladimir Putin to congratulate him on the occasion of Russias national day were indicative of the Turkish sides determination for normalization of ...

Alwaght- Just contrary to the Cold War period during which approaches governing the relations between the former Soviet Union and Turkey originated from ideological principles, and also during the 1990s in which the two sides witnessed tense ties, in the recent years the political, economic and geopolitical interests as well as the new globalization ...

The Turkish president's disregard for the rules of diplomacy often gets Recep Tayyip Erdogan into trouble as evidenced by his remarks following the downing of a Russian bomber, Turkey's BirGn newspaper asserted. "Erdogan has openly changed long established trends and generally accepted standards in diplomacy. As a result, he does not notice the ...

The Trade Promotion Organization of Iran (TPOI) has banned its firms from re-exporting Turkish products to Russia, national media cited its deputy director as saying Saturday. MOSCOW (Sputnik) Russia banned an array ofTurkish agricultural products aftera Turkish fighter shot downRussias Su-24 jet overSyria onNovember 24, 2015. Movadvadi stressed ...

The Russian agricultural watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor said Tuesday it had received a letter from Iran vowing that it would take all measures possible to prevent the banned Turkish food products disguised as those from Iran from entering the Russian market. MOSCOW (Sputnik)Rosselkhoznadzor has requested that Iran provide information onthe phytosanitary ...

The Russian government has ratified a set of updated sanctions against Turkey amid a row between the two countries that started after thedowning of a Russian jet by the Turkish military. According to the updated list of Moscows sanctions against Ankara on the Kremlins website, Turkish companies will be banned from constructing buildings or working ...

A senior Iranian official says the ongoing tensions between Moscow and Ankara will not serve the interests ofregional countries, urging all-out efforts to help end the row. Both Turkey and Russia are our neighbors and we do not want to see any tension between [our] neighboring countries, with whom we have friendly relations, Ali-Akbar Velayati, ...