Turkey, a NATO member country with the second largest army in the western alliance, will consider elevating its relations with the security bloc led by China and Russia, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Wednesday.
“Turkey’s prospect of becoming a full-fledged member of the organization does not imply a break from any other bloc or from the West,” Erdogan argued, according to a transcript of the statements he made to journalists during the return flight from Kyrgyzstan, as reported by Reuters and News.ro agencies.
Erdogan participated on Tuesday in Bishkek at a SCO summit, where Turkey is a “dialogue partner”.
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A photograph taken there is widely spread on social networks. The image was published by Pul Pervogo, the Telegram channel associated with the press service of Aleksandr Lukashenko, the President of Belarus.
The photograph shows Aleksandr Lukashenko, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Vladimir Putin sitting on the same couch, engaged in an informal discussion, with interpreters behind them. The Turkish leader has a relaxed demeanor and seems to be the center of attention, while Putin holds some papers in his hand, and Lukashenko watches him attentively. Lukashenko’s channel has published several frames of the meeting with the caption “Lukashenko, Putin, and Erdogan. Non-stop negotiations.”
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