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Vladimir Putin must return the Black Sea peninsula, including Crimea, to its “rightful owners,” Turkey’s President Erdogan says
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Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Russian President Vladimir Putin must return all land that Russia has occupied, including Crimea.
The Black Sea peninsula should be returned to its “rightful owners,” ERDOGAN told PBS NewsHour on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, in comments likely to provoke ire in Moscow.
Asked whether Russia should be allowed to keep Crimea in a negotiated end to the war, Erdoğan said, “These are our descendants at the same time, the people who are living there. If you were to take this step forward, if you could leave us, you would also be relieving the Crimean Tatars and Ukraine as well. That’s what we have always been saying.”
Erdogan said he had been telling Putin this since 2014. “But since then, unfortunately, no step has been taken forward,” he added.
The remarks make him the latest world leader with continuing ties to Russia to deal Putin a rhetorical blow in recent days. India’s Narendra Modi raised concerns last week about the Russian president’s ongoing war on Ukraine, and Putin himself admitted China’s Xi Jinping expressed “concerns” as well.
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