ERDOGAN: WORLD SHOULD HAVE SPOKEN UP IN 2014

Fri 11 March 2022:

Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has suggested that the conflict in Ukraine could have been avoided had the world spoken out against Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea.

“Would we have faced such a picture if the West, the whole world, had raised their voices?” Erdogan asked. “Those who remained silent in the face of Crimea’s invasion are now saying some things.”

Erdogan spoke at a diplomacy forum near the Türkiye’s Mediterranean city of Antalya, where the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba met a day earlier for talks facilitated by Türkiye’s foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu.

Erdogan said Türkiye would continue its efforts for peace.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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