Turkish foreign minister to visit Russia and Ukraine this week
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efforts to broker
cease-fire between Moscow and
Kyiv:
The conflict between the two countries has left
in a
precarious spot: It considers Ukraine
an ally; has supplied armed drones to Kyiv and
condemned the Russia invasion as illegal. Turkey
also has important commercial and energy ties to
Russia. And more than 100 Turkish citizens remain
trapped in besieged Mariupol, sheltering in a
mosque
has already carried out evacuations of
nearly 15,000 of its citizens from Ukraine; but a
few hundred remain, Turkish Foreign Minister
Mevlut Cavusoglu said Tuesday during
news
conference in Ankara. He said he had spoken to
both Russia and Ukraine about getting the Turkish
nationals out of Mariupol. "Conditions for the
evacuations from Mariupol are slowly
forming;
we
are
waiting for the good news today or tomorow;
he said.
Last week; Turkey hosted Russian Foreign Minister
Sergei Lavrov and his Ukrainian counterpart for
talks that ended with no breakthrough_
Erdogan,
speaking
visit to
Monday by
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, said the two
leaders had "agreed that diplomatic efforts for a
solution should he accelerated
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