A hitch during the meeting of the heads of Russia and Turkey, Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was due to differences in the opening traditions of such events and does not indicate any tension. This was stated by Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov.
"As for tension, there has not been any tension. First, there was no silence, there was a hitch, related only to the fact that Erdogan practically never says anything at meetings (at the beginning of a meeting in the presence of the media). It's just not in their practice to say something at the beginning of a meeting to speak to the media. We just have different traditions in this regard, so there was a hitch," RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.
