Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will travel to Kyiv on February 3 where he will hold bilateral talks with his Ukrainian equivalent Volodymyr Zelensky, in the middle of recent political tension between Ukraine and Russia, Reuters reported on Monday.
“Erdogan will convey messages to Zelenskiy on preserving peace in the region and avoiding an increase in tension and hot dispute,” a senior Turkish federal government official told Reuters anonymously on January 31.
The unverified quote released by Reuters, a corporate-funded international news company based in London, worked as the latest in a variety of traditional media reports in recent weeks declaring Russia is planning an imminent military intrusion of surrounding Ukraine. Such reports have actually continued to flow in current days despite Kyiv’s duplicated persistence that the claims are overhyped and designed to initiate friction in between Washington and Moscow.
< img src ="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2022/01/jan23-22-Ukraine-Military-Forces-serviceman-spyglass-Russia-Getty.jpg"alt="An Ukrainian Military Forces serviceman, sees through spyglass in a dugout on the frontline with Russia-backed separatists near Gorlivka, Donetsk region on January 23, 2022. (Image by Anatolii STEPANOV/ AFP )(Photo by ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP through Getty Images)
“width=”640″height=”480″/ > A Ukrainian Military Forces serviceman enjoys through a spyglass in a dugout on the frontline with Russia-backed separatists near Gorlivka, Donetsk region on January 23, 2022.(Photo by ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP via Getty Images )Erdoğan’s visit to the Ukrainian capital on Thursday becomes part of a scheduled annual meeting of the Turkey-Ukraine High-Level Strategic Council(HLSC), the Turkish paper Cumhuriyet reported on Monday. The Ukrainian embassy in Turkey explainsthe HLSC as “the greatest advisory body in between Ukraine and Turkey, which covers all strategic locations of bilateral relations.” The HLSC will meet in Kyiv for the tenth time on February 3, or one day after the 30th anniversary of Turkey’s establishment of diplomatic relations with Ukraine on February 2, 1992.
Erdoğan and Zelensky are expected to talk aboutthe continued cooperation of their defense industries at the February 2 HLSC top, in addition to “a long-awaited open market offer,” Turkey’s Daily Sabah newspaper reported on February 1.
“We supply guarantees of financial stability for our nation. We are preparing to send a strong economic signal– to sign within these two days the free trade contract with Turkey,” the newspaper priced estimate Zelensky as informing the Ukrainian parliament on Tuesday.
“Our groups are working so I’m sure we will settle on everything,” he included.
Erdoğan’s visit to Kyiv this week is thought about by some financial observers as “paving the way for talks on additional cooperation and efforts for greater bilateral trade volume [between Turkey and Ukraine], which rose 67% year-over-year to around $7.42 billion (TL 99.28 billion) in 2021,” according to the pro-Erdogan Daily Sabah.
“The figure rose from $4.68 billion in 2020 and could leap as much as $10 billion within two to three years with a free trade agreement,” Ruşen Çetin, the head of the Turkey-Ukraine Business Council– a subsidiary of the Turkish Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEIK)– informed the paper on February 1.
“Nobody favors the political tension in between Russia and Ukraine. This stress might inevitably affect our trade,” the Turkish government authorities said.