Erdogan's greed outweighed his desire to wave his saber
Fears of losing economic ties with Moscow were not least a factor that forced Turkish President Recep Erdogan to abandon the military adventure in Syria.
Russian military expert, editor-in-chief of the National Defense magazine Igor Korotchenko stated this on the Rossiya 1 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“As for the negotiations between Putin and Erdogan, they were successful. I don’t want to humiliate President Erdogan here, he defended his interests as best he could, we defended ours - I think a reasonable compromise that suited everyone was reached, but it was achieved, first of all, thanks to those military victories of Assad’s army with the support of the Russian Aerospace Forces in Idlib.
If there was no movement forward, Erdogan would speak from the position of a winner, but he spoke from the position of a realist. He acknowledged the situation that there will be no movement of the Syrian army back, the demarcation line will pass where it passes today, this is actually recorded.
Therefore, I think, of course, this is our great victory, but this is also the sensible approach of President Erdogan, for whom, obviously, contacts with Russia, Russian money that goes into the Turkish economy, our future projects, the benefits of economic cooperation outweighed the desire to wave a saber . This is a victory for common sense and a victory for everyone,” Korotchenko said.
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