full screen Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russia’s Vladimir Putin during a meeting last October. Archive image. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev/AP/TT
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is planning a trip to Russia to discuss the Ukraine-Russia grain deal with President Vladimir Putin.
The trip and the meeting in Sochi will be “soon”, according to a spokesperson for Erdogan’s AKP party. The president will try there to “avoid a looming food crisis”, according to spokesperson Omer Celik.
Russia in July pulled out of the grain deal negotiated with the help of Turkey and the United Nations, allowing Ukraine to export more than 30 million tons of grain from three Black Sea ports despite the war.