Türkiye is offering itself as a platform for negotiations in the Putin-Zelensky format.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said President Recep Tayyip Erdogan conveyed to Vladimir Putin a message about Ankara's readiness to hold new talks on resolving the conflict in Ukraine.

Fidan made the corresponding statement at a press conference following the fifth Diplomatic Forum in Antalya.

Head of the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs:

In contacts between our president and both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Turkey's readiness to organize negotiations, including at the leader level, was conveyed.

Thus, the Turkish authorities are making it clear that they are ready to host negotiations in the Putin-Zelensky format on their territory.

According to Hakan Fidan, holding such an event depends not so much on Turkey's desire as on the willingness of the parties to the conflict to sit down at the negotiating table.

Earlier, Hakan Fidan met with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines of the Antalya Diplomatic Forum.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, in turn, emphasized that Moscow welcomes the possibility of resuming negotiations on Ukraine in Istanbul, but that this is not Moscow's current priority. According to Lavrov, things would be different if Kyiv did not have a "poor track record" in negotiations and did not constantly change its position. Lavrov also emphasized that Europe is not committed to resolving the Ukrainian conflict:

Europe wants to preserve the Nazi regime in Ukraine at any cost.

Comments

[guest]

Türkiye is offering itself as a platform for negotiations in the Putin-Zelensky format.

By analogy with Minsk 1 and Minsk 2, will Istanbul 2 be added to Istanbul 1?

[pyagomail.com]

According to the Ukrainian constitution, Zelensky is a nobody; negotiating with him means disrespecting yourself.

[Ball]

Quote: pyagomail.ru

to negotiate with him is to disrespect yourself

Nobody is going to talk to an expired drug addict.

[Dmitry Smirnov_2]

Well, the whole world talks to him, even Trump.

[Ball]

Quote: Dmitry Smirnov_2

Well, the whole world talks to him, even Trump.

We've seen it all: like with a garbage cat, like with a lichen-ridden rat. He listened to the pleas of a drug-addicted beggar and... sent him away.

[Alex F._2]

the whole world talks to him

First of all, the "West" is not the whole world!
Secondly, the “West” is more of an outcast from the world of normal countries.
Thirdly, let this "entire world of outcasts" negotiate with the green-bob until both sides turn blue, good riddance and good luck to them...

[Murzik]

Yeah, but the Ukrainian constitution doesn't prohibit talking to the murderer Budanov. You either take off your cross or put on your underwear.

[Machito]

Quote: pyagomail.ru

According to the Ukrainian constitution, Zelensky is a nobody; negotiating with him means disrespecting yourself.

There, the Rada is already overdue.
Zelensky is a dictator, usurper, drug fuhrer.

[Karabin]

According to the Ukrainian constitution, Zelensky is a nobody.

For some, even a mare is a bride, despite some kind of constitution.

[Dmitry Smirnov_2]

Tell this to Luhansk, Donbass

[January]

Quote: guest

By analogy with Minsk 1 and Minsk 2, will Istanbul 2 be added to Istanbul 1?

Why not? If it worked the first three times, what's stopping them from starting a fourth? This idiot... this fool keeps stepping on the same rake twice, and our leadership can't tell us what to do. I wouldn't be surprised if they agree and even hand over 10,000 prisoners. Under Turkey's guarantee until the end of the war...

[Deaf]

What, again? He's really gotten on my nerves. Those peacekeepers, damn it.

[Boris Sergeev]

Türkiye is a wonderful place, although it doesn't recognize Russia's territorial integrity. But Peskov drove cars out of there.

[Bear]

I think that if I served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and had the opportunity, everyone would drive cars from abroad.

[Boris Sergeev]

Yes, yes! That's what the Foreign Ministry's job descriptions say!

[Dmitry Smirnov_2]

Not all traders are like you made them up to be, you have to know your honor.

[faterdom]

It's not even interesting. After failing to fulfill their commitment to keep the Azov fighters from Mariupol, while supplying weapons and drones to the Ukrainians, they pretend to be a neutral "negotiating platform"?
Why do we need this?
There is Moscow as a platform, Kyiv, if it were under our control, would also be a good platform.

[Machito]

Quote: faterdom

It's not even interesting. After failing to fulfill their commitment to keep the Azov fighters from Mariupol, while supplying weapons and drones to the Ukrainians, they pretend to be a neutral "negotiating platform"?
Why do we need this?
There is Moscow as a platform, Kyiv, if it were under our control, would also be a good platform.

Magadan is a good venue for negotiations. And Anchorage is nearby.

[Alexander 3]

L.B.S. is a good place for negotiations.

[Word]

The Turks are supplying components and weapons to the outskirts, what mopotovators - they are filthy demons.

[Yustas201a]

If Putin meets with the greenie, he will lose face, although in the eyes of ordinary people there is nothing left of his "face".

[Karabin]

although some of the "face" remained

You know, plastic infosurgery works wonders.

[Normal]

Well, it's a so-so platform, in my opinion. But the main thing is that the parties will decide and put forward their proposals.

[Jacques sekavar]

Without Nata, neither war nor peace can be started.

[Aurelio]

Con quale criterio Erdogan da venditore di tappeti a Zelensky vorrebbe fare il mediatore con la Russia?

[the same doctor]

Putin should avoid direct negotiations, as all negotiations involving him have resulted in losses for the country. Honest people capable of taking a beating should be sent to the negotiations.