Turkey and Russia should look ahead and learn from the lessons of the past, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said in an article published in the Kommersant newspaper.
"Our opinion is that the Turkish and Russian nations expect from us to look ahead by taking lessons from the past experiences. Our sincere wishes are that we should fulfill this expectation, we should build the common future, and we should make a new inception," Cavusoglu said.
Cavusoglu said the relationship between Russia and Turkey would not be based on competition but on friendship and cooperation. "We believe that the two countries have the much of required institutional, economic and sociocultural basis,” Anadolu Agency cited him as saying.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu in Sochi today during a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC).
