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ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan stated on Tuesday he became sending his overseas minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, to Moscow and Kyiv this week as a part of Turkey's mediation efforts to secure a ceasefire in Ukraine.
NATO member Turkey shares a maritime border with Ukraine and Russia in the Black Sea, has decent ties with both and has provided to mediate between the warring nations. It has voiced support for Ukraine, however additionally antagonistic sanctions on Moscow.
"i am sending my international minister to Russia tonight. he will cling talks in Moscow day after today, and travel to Kyiv on Thursday," Erdogan talked about after a cupboard assembly.
Erdogan also referred to he would meet Polish President Andrzej Duda for talks in Ankara on Wednesday, including that Turkey had turn into "a symbol of hope" after it hosted the Russian and Ukrainian international ministers ultimate week for the primary excessive-stage talks between the warring facets.
closing week's talks within the lodge of Antalya, which Cavusoglu also attended, didn't yield any concrete outcomes.
Ukraine referred to on Sunday it became working with Turkey and Israel as mediators to set a place and framework for negotiations with Russia.
whereas forging shut ties with Russia on power, defence and exchange and relying closely on Russian travelers, Turkey has additionally offered drones to Ukraine, angering Moscow. It also opposes Russian policies in Syria and Libya, as well as its annexation of Crimea in 2014.
Erdogan has many times stated Turkey will no longer abandon its ties with Russia or Ukraine, saying Ankara's potential to speak to each side turned into an asset.
EVACUATION EFFORTS
Cavusoglu mentioned earlier that Turkish officials had held talks with Ukrainian negotiators and that contacts would intensify, as Ankara additionally works to evacuate its residents from Ukraine.
He said he expected Turks stranded in a mosque within the heavily bombarded port city of Mariupol to be evacuated inside the week after a cell name with Russian overseas Minister Sergei Lavrov. He referred to some 15,000 Turks had been evacuated from Ukraine up to now.
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Turkish defence ministry sources observed Ankara turned into looking forward to Russian popularity of the mosque evacuation, pending a security evaluation. Landmines in the enviornment had been cleared and work became ongoing to open humanitarian corridors, they referred to.
Russia calls its movements in Ukraine a "particular operation" whose goal is to demilitarise and "denazify" the former Soviet republic. It denies focused on civilian areas.
(additional reporting by means of Yesim Dikmen and Ezgi Erkoyun in Istanbul, Ece Toksabay in Ankara; Writing via Ali Kucukgocmen and Ece Toksabay; modifying with the aid of Andrew Heavens, Jonathan Spicer and Gareth Jones)
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