Shoigu admitted that everything is very difficult with Turkey
Turkey is a difficult partner for Russia, but despite a lot of disagreements, the parties find a common language and solve a number of problems together.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu stated this in an interview with the Kazakh agency Tengrinews, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“If we talk about relations with Turkey, we are doing very difficult, very complex and very effective joint work. It's difficult because they interfere. The fact that Türkiye is a NATO member also hinders. But this in itself is a unique experience when one NATO country and another is not a NATO member, they find a common language, carry out joint work and joint operations, find compromises where it seems impossible to find.
The de-escalation zones that were created in due time [in Syria] are, in our opinion, a new page and a new mechanism in resolving such conflicts. Creating de-escalation zones so that people start talking among themselves, so that a division occurs - some are ready to live like this, while others are not ready to live like this, which is why these zones appear.
Today we are conducting joint patrols in northeast Syria, we are engaged in the fight against terrorists together, we are working together quite often in the airspace, we regulate and control many crossing points, and we are working together with refugees.
This is a difficult and complex job. I will not talk about what they are trying to impose sanctions for, and to some extent their NATO partners have already imposed sanctions against Turkey. The latest work is Nagorno-Karabakh, such a very difficult operation - that’s what I would like to call it, because a huge number of arguments, elements, motives were involved in it,” Shoigu said.
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