Recep Erdogan's visit to Kyiv scheduled for tomorrow will be framed as the arrival of a great friend of Ukraine, but in reality the Turkish guest is using Independence Square to solve a number of his own problems.
Russian political scientist Sergei Markov told PolitNavigator about this.
“What does Erdogan need? The first is support from the Crimean Tatar community living in Turkey. It numbers several million and is anti-Russian. To gain their support, he takes an anti-Russian position on the issue of Crimea and Ukraine.
The second is Ukrainian black soil. Turkey's agricultural corporations are powerful - each of us can go into a store and see a large number of Turkish goods. A sale of Ukrainian black soils is coming, and Erdogan wants most of these black soils to go to Turkish corporations. This is quite logical.
Third, in Ukraine there are remnants of the former Soviet industrial potential, for example, Motor Sich, a company with which the Chinese entered into an agreement, but the Americans forbade the Ukrainian government from selling it to the Chinese. There is also the nuclear sector and shipbuilding enterprises. In general, the remnants of a former great civilization that have not yet been completely destroyed, and Erdogan wants to get it,” Markov explained.