With a number of way, the Turkish leader has surfaced as a crucial player in the shot to bring Ukraine and Russia to the negotiating table.
Since the explosion of the Ukraine conflict in February, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has made multitudinous attempts to move Moscow and Kiev to end their conflict.
On Thursday, Erdogan was on yet another peace charge, alongside the UN Secretary- General Antonio Guterres, meeting his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Lviv, a megacity close to the Ukraine border with Poland.
During his meeting, Erdogan reiterated the need to have immediate conclusion of fighting in the region. “ The main focus was how to conclude the war, ” he said after the meeting with Zelenskyy, who praised the Turkish leader’s sweats.
“I continue to have faith that the war will end at the negotiating table. Mr Zelenskyy and Mr Putin are of the same opinion. The whole matter is determining the shortest and fairest path to the negotiating table,” said Erdogan.
Before this month, Erdogan had also met with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Sochi, a Black Sea harborage megacity, to bandy the ongoing conflict and other issues.
Erdogan invited both Putin and Zelenskyy to Türkiye to have a particular discussion, which could lead to a possible peace deal.
The US and its abettors have assessed profitable warrants on Russia in a shot to weaken Moscow’s resoluteness in carrying out a Ukraine- suchlike operation away. But Türkiye acted else and pursued a politic result as its leaders saw a prolonged conflict hurting indigenous and global peace.
As a result, rather than defending warrants on Russia and pushing Ukraine’s stretched military force to fight a bloody conflict, Ankara has surfaced as a arsonist deliverer for dialogue to resolve the differences between the warring neighbours.
While prompting peace to both sides, Türkiye has always underscored its passionate defence of Ukraine’s territorial integrity and its opposition to Russian annexation of the Crimean promontory, a strategic area in the Black Sea.
Türkiye defends the territorial integrity of Ukraine, opposing the Russian annexation of the Crimean Peninsula. But Ankara also believes chastising Russia roughly might not help address the conflict.
Türkiye’s peace strategy
Türkiye is uniquely placed to play the part of interceder. It’s a NATO member and also enjoys good ties with Russia, from where millions of excursionists visit Türkiye every time.
Ankara along with the UN successfully worked out a deal which allows Ukraine to export its ranch affair, proving that Moscow and Kiev can work together indeed as they fight.
“While the West is right to stand up to Russia for its irruption of Ukraine, it’s important to honor that a multifaceted connectivity strategy that combines pressure with formative engagement along the lines of Türkiye’s approach can be more effective in yielding results when it comes to dealing with Moscow,” wrote Eugene Chausovsky, a elderly critic at the Newlines Institute, who preliminarily served as elderly Eurasia critic at the geopolitical analysis establishment Stratfor.
In this perspective, Erdogan’s first visit to Ukraine after the Russian attack on the country inspired praises from both the transnational community and individual countries like Poland, which has profoundly felt the consequences of the war since its original stages.
Poland’s President Andrzej Duda thanked Erdogan for his “ formative ” sweats in trying to resolve the conflict.
A successful grain tactfulness
Duda also praised Erdogan’s part in the grain deal, which allowed millions of tons of grains to be exported from Ukrainian Black Sea anchorages, which have been under a Russian leaguer.
On his recent trip to Ukraine, Erdogan called for expediting the process to export grains from Ukrainian anchorages.
Since the opening of the Istanbul- grounded Joint Coordination Center( JCC), which oversees the payload process through the Black Sea to Türkiye’s woe and European requests, further than two dozen vessels have sailed carrying further than,000 tonnes of grain demanded to ease food dearths.
Erdogan has played a critical part for the grain import deal. He speaks during the opening form of the Istanbul- grounded Joint Coordination Center, which monitors the perpetration of the deal.
“Not only Ukraine, but the whole world has begun feeling positive goods of the major Istanbul deal to renew Ukrainian grain exports,” said the Turkish chairman.
Reconstruction of Ukrainian structure
Erdogan’s visit also eased an important structure deal between Ukraine and Türkiye.
The two countries will form a business platform, which will seek profitable cooperation and develop systems, icing “the participation of the Turkish side” to reconstruct Ukraine, according to the deal.
“Turkish business and government structures will be suitable to develop specific reconstruction systems, as well as give consulting and specialized backing” to Ukraine, said the country’s structure ministry in a statement after the signing form.
Nuclear factory impasse
In Lviv, Erdogan also bandied with both his UN and Ukrainian counterparts the dangerous escalation in the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power factory, Europe’s biggest similar installation, which has been under Russian control since March, prompting all sides not to fight in the vicinity of the factory.
Both Ukraine and Russia condemn each other for firing ordnance shells near the nuclear installation.
“We don’t want to witness a new Chernobyl,” Erdogan advised.
Among other motifs, Erdogan, Zelenskyy and Guterres also bandied how to apply internee exchange between Ukrainians and Russians. Türkiye believes that icing the exchange of captures might be another measure to lessen pressures.
Source: TRT World