Erdogan promises Putin «full support» in the fight against the Wagner boss
The Turkish president and Putin spoke to each other on the phone. On Ankara’s initiative, the telephone call is said to have come about. He supports all the steps taken by Russia, Erdogan confirmed. According to rumors, Putin has already left Moscow. The Kremlin denies.
Karin Silvina Hiebaum – International Press
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin spoke with Recep Tayyip Erdogan about the situation in Russia after the uprising of the mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigoshin. What the Turkish head of state has certainly not forgotten: Putin’s help in the failed coup in Turkey in August 2016. The Russian head of state, it is said, warned the Turkish president against putschists approaching on the plane. Putin relied on Russian radar observations. «My expensive Vladimir!» Erdogan exclaimed at the subsequent meeting. Since then, relations between the two states have improved noticeably.
Seven years later, it is clear to Erdogan who he is on whose side he stands in the conflict between Putin and Prigoschin. In a phone call, he explained to the Russian president his «full support for the steps taken by the Russian leadership,» the Kremlin told the state news agency Tass on Saturday. The telephone call was made on the initiative of Turkey.
Anti-terror emergency imposed
Previously, the months-long power struggle between the Russian military and Prigoschin had escalated. According to his own information, the head of the private Wagner force brought important military facilities under his control in Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia. In Moscow, the anti-terrorist emergency was then imposed. Putin branded his former confidant as a «traitor.» Russia has been waging a war of aggression against neighboring Ukraine for 16 months. In addition to the Russian army, the Wagner mercenaries have also been an important unit so far.
Putin continues to be in the Kremlin, according to the spokesman
It is unclear whether Vladimir Putin is still in Moscow. A Russian government plane used by the president is said to have left Moscow’s Vnnikovo Airport in the direction of St. Petersburg at 2:16 p.m. local time and then disappeared from the radar. Apparently, the pilots stopped transmitting data when the Ilyjuschin aircraft was a little south of the Russian city of Tver. This is reported by several media, citing data from the tracking service Flightradar.
Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied on Saturday, according to the Russian news agency Tass, that the president had left the capital. Putin works «normally» in the Kremlin, he explained.
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