Erdogan’s Putin Meeting Was More About Damage Control Than Grain - The Washington Post

Erdogan’s Putin Meeting Was More About Damage Control Than Grain Analysis by Marc Champion | Bloomberg September 5, 2023 at 12:15 a.m. EDT It’s hard to think of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a strongman whose bizarre ideas on economics have brought his country close to catastrophe, as a pragmatist. But that’s how to understand his foreign policy swings, and why he’s stuck in a loveless triangle with Russia and NATO.On Monday, Erdogan went to see Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, with much of his government in tow. He stated the obvious on his way in: “Everyone,” he said, was watching whether they could revive the grain deal that allowed Ukraine to export 33 million tons of wheat and other More:Erdogan’s Putin Meeting Was More About Damage Control Than Grain - The Washington Post