Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s workplace has clarified that he seeks to organise a gathering between the leaders of Russia and Ukraine, not Russia and the USA, following a misquote within the media.

Supply: European Pravda

Particulars: Earlier, Turkish media quoted Erdoğan throughout a press convention on Friday, the place he spoke of plans to carry talks with Russian ruler Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump "to deliver these leaders collectively in Istanbul".

Türkiye’s Directorate of Communications later clarified these remarks in an announcement: "By holding talks with President Putin and President Trump within the interval forward, possibly subsequent week, we are going to try to see if we are able to deliver these leaders [Putin and Zelenskyy] collectively in Istanbul". [N.B. Ukrainska Pravda does not recognise Putin as president – ed.]

This means that Erdoğan goals to rearrange a gathering between Zelenskyy and Putin by means of his contact with the Russian and US leaders.

Background:

• On 23 July, a 3rd spherical of peace talks between the Ukrainian and Russian delegations befell in Istanbul. The primary spherical of talks was held in Istanbul on 16 Might this 12 months, and the second on 2 June.
• At a briefing following the talks, Oleksandr Bevz, a member of the Ukrainian delegation, stated that the Ukrainian facet had as soon as once more proposed holding a leaders’ assembly in August.

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