Recep Erdogan in a Russian Minefield
... relations with Vladimir Putin Analysts, journalists and bloggers love to compare the Russian and Turkish leaders. And to be fair, there are a number of obvious parallels... ... likely open up a giant rift in Ankara's relations with Moscow. Intervention in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict . It should come as no surprise that Ankara has firmly and... ... crisis in Russia–Turkey relations. Expansion of military-technical cooperation with Ukraine . Russia and Turkey have always had fundamentally different views on Ukraine...