Turkey Says Not Picking A Side in Ukraine-Russia Conflict
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Turkey is not picking a side in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Thursday.
President Tayyip Erdogan called at the weekend for an end to “worrying” developments in eastern Ukraine’s Donbass region after meeting his Ukrainian counterpart.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov subsequently said Turkey and other nations should not feed “belligerent sentiment” in Ukraine, Reuters reported.
Fighting has increased in recent weeks in eastern Ukraine, where government forces have battled separatists in a seven-year conflict that Kyiv says has killed 14,000 people.
