{"id":26447,"date":"2022-10-12T20:14:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T20:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=26447"},"modified":"2022-10-12T20:14:14","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T20:14:14","slug":"erdogan-summons-putin-for-crunch-meeting-tomorrow-turkey-to-demand-ukraine-peace-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/10\/12\/erdogan-summons-putin-for-crunch-meeting-tomorrow-turkey-to-demand-ukraine-peace-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Erdogan summons Putin for crunch meeting tomorrow &#8211; Turkey to demand Ukraine peace talks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turkish\u00a0President\u00a0Recep Tayyip Erdogan\u00a0has summoned\u00a0Vladimir Putin\u00a0for a crunch meeting tomorrow, in which he is expected to demand he negotiate peace with\u00a0Ukraine. Speaking to reporters today,\u00a0Kremlin\u00a0aide Yuri Ushakov confirmed the two would descend on Kazakhstan for a \u201cvery interesting\u201d meeting. He said: &#8220;Now many say that the Turks are ready to come up with other initiatives in the context of the settlement of the Ukrainian conflict.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;There are reports in the press that the Turkish side is putting forward specific considerations in this regard, I do not exclude that Erdo\u011fan will actively touch on this topic during the Astana contact. So a very interesting and, I hope, useful discussion awaits us.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The leaders will arrive in the Kazakh capital of Astana on October 13 and speak on the sidelines of the sixth Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA) summit.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their orbiting meeting may touch on talks between Russia and the west, Kremlin spokesman&nbsp;Dmitry Peskov has previously suggested.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russia and Turkey are two of 11 nations represented in Astana on Thursday for the CICA conference.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/78\/590x\/erdogan-ukraine-peace-talks-putin-Kazakhstan-meeting-russia-war-1681803.jpg?r=1665600984625\" alt=\"Turkey vs Russia: Erdogan and Putin\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Erdogan set to demand Ukraine peace talks as he summons Putin for crunch meeting tomorrow&nbsp;(Image: GETTY)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/78\/590x\/secondary\/erodgan-vs-putin-CICA-conference-4337629.jpg?r=1665600984638\" alt=\"Erdogan vs Putin: CICA\" title=\"Erdogan vs Putin: CICA\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Erdogan vs Putin: This year&#8217;s CICA conference is the sixth\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The other nine are Azerbaijan, Iraq, Iran, Qatar, Kyrgyzstan, Palestine, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus and a key Russia ally, will also attend as an &#8220;observer&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And it will include Vice Presidents from Vietnam and China as organisers anticipate &#8220;one of the significant post-pandemic foreign policy events in the country and on the continent&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While CICA will welcome Russia and other western critics, the rest of the world is more boldly rejecting Putin and his regime.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/78\/590x\/secondary\/erdogan-vs-putin-united-nations-4337630.jpg?r=1665600984683\" alt=\"Erdogan vs Putin: Ukraine \" title=\"Erdogan vs Putin: Ukraine \" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Erdogan vs Putin: Ukraine&#8217;s UN representative said Russia has left a &#8220;trail of blood&#8221;&nbsp;(Image: GETTY)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The United Nations (UN), of which Russia is a member, has publicly rejected a request from Russian officials to hold a secret ballot on recognising Putin&#8217;s recent power grab.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On October 10, the UN General Assembly voted to reject calls for 193 members to participate in a secret ballot to determine whether they would condemn the Kremlin&#8217;s move to annex four occupied Ukrainian regions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead, 107 delegates voted for a public vote on a draft resolution to condemn Russia&#8217;s &#8220;illegal so-called referenda&#8221; and the &#8220;attempted illegal annexation&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Only 13 countries opposed, while another 39 abstained and the remainder chose not to vote.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/78\/590x\/secondary\/erdogan-vs-putin-russia-un-representative-4337631.jpg?r=1665600984728\" alt=\"Erdogan vs Putin: Russian UN representative\" title=\"Erdogan vs Putin: Russian UN representative\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Erdogan vs Putin: Russia attempted to call a secret ballot at the UN\u00a0(Image: GETTY<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russia and China were among the nations represented on the council that did not cast a ballot.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officials have planned to hold the vote on either October 12 or 13, when Putin and Mr Erdogan plan to meet.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While rejecting the request, several delegates made statements in support of Ukraine.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anthony Blinken, the US Secretary of State for defence, described Russia&#8217;s actions as &#8220;completely unacceptable&#8221; in a brief statement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish\u00a0President\u00a0Recep Tayyip Erdogan\u00a0has summoned\u00a0Vladimir Putin\u00a0for a crunch meeting tomorrow, in which he is expected to demand he negotiate peace with\u00a0Ukraine. Speaking to reporters today,\u00a0Kremlin\u00a0aide Yuri Ushakov confirmed the two would descend on Kazakhstan for a \u201cvery interesting\u201d meeting. He said: &#8220;Now many say that the Turks are ready to come up with other initiatives in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":26436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[8196,7273,6087,5274,5463,6044,11583,10767,11337,6712,10321,6581,1152,9833,12085,7968,11973,8637,5485,5396,8232,9126,3805,71,8552,3457,5217,2570,3151,5180,5555,5465,1687,7999,6348,1151,10024,694,3954,36],"class_list":["post-26447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-alexander-lukashenko","tag-anthony","tag-anthony-blinken","tag-asia","tag-belarus","tag-blinken","tag-capital","tag-conflict","tag-demand","tag-dmitry-peskov","tag-illegal","tag-iraq","tag-kremlin","tag-meeting","tag-nations","tag-nine","tag-one","tag-palestine","tag-pandemic","tag-peace","tag-peace-talk","tag-peace-talks","tag-president","tag-putin","tag-qatar","tag-russia","tag-russian","tag-turkey","tag-turkeys-president-recep-tayyip-erdogan","tag-ukraine","tag-ukrainian","tag-un","tag-un-general-assembly","tag-united-nations","tag-us","tag-us-secretary-of-state","tag-vietnam","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-will","tag-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}