Turkey has a “special” and growing relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin despite mounting pressure on Ankara to help bolster Western sanctions against Moscow, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in an exclusive interview
“We are not at a point where we would impose sanctions on Russia like the West have done. We are not bound by the West’s sanctions,” Erdogan told CNN’s Becky Anderson. “We are a strong state and we have a positive relationship with Russia.” “Russia and Turkey need each other in every field possible,” he added. Erdogan is the apparent frontrunner in the Turkish presidential race which heads to a runoff vote on May 28.
“Stability and confidence are very important and people who look for stability will do what is necessary at the polls,” he said. Neither candidate surpassed the 50% threshold needed to clinch the presidential win in the first round. The result defied opinion polls, which predicted a slight lead for Kilicdaroglu, the 74-year-old bureaucrat and leader of the left-leaning CHP.
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