Yesterday the Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that Ankara is ready to discuss the option of a joint operation against Daesh with Russia, including Ankara's decision to use military aircraft. The Turkish Foreign Minister's statement came after a meeting between Presidents Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan in St. Petersburg on August 9. The heads of state expressed a desire to return to the pre-crisis level of relations, to restore trade and economic relations and to unfreeze the Turkish Stream project.
"After six months or a year, Russian-Turkish relations will be even better than they were before the crisis... Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan have shown an example of how diplomacy should be conducted. Great political will to overcome a very tough crisis was shown. Turkey and Russia are demonstrating a modern type of diplomacy, when the leaders find the political will to have very good relations in other spheres, despite sharp contradictions in one sphere, such as Syria. Such multi-faceted diplomacy has become a triumph of reason over emotion," a political expert and a member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, Sergey Markov, believes.
According to him, the Russian embargo in the field of agriculture is being fully lifted, negotiations on the admission of Russian producers to the Turkish market are being held and Russian tourists are returning to Turkish resorts.
"Russian tourist companies need time to recover aircraft charter services in this direction. It is the peak of the tourist season and the planes are busy in other directions," Markov noted.
In addition, according to Markov, Turkish companies are returning to the Russian construction market, negotiations on the elimination of the visa regime for Turkish citizens are also being started.
