Expressing support for Türkiye’s interest in joining the BRICS, Russian President Vladimir Putin said, “We welcome Türkiye’s interest in the work of BRICS, Undoubtedly, we will fully support this aspiration and desire to be together with the countries of this union, to be closer, and to solve common problems.”
Putin made his comments during his meeting in the Kremlin with Türkiye’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan June 11. Putin also said he hopes to meet President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan during the July 3-4 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Kazakhstan’s capital of Astana, to ‘'discuss all current issues.” Putin also praised Ankara’s efforts to resolve the Russia-Ukraine war.
Fidan had been in Nizhny Novgorod, to attend the June 10-11 meetings of BRICS and of BRICS-Plus/BRICS-Outreach foreign ministers, representing one of 15 or so nations invited by the BRICS to attend. Fidan addressed one of the foreign ministers’ meeting sessions that focussed on the humanitarian situation in Gaza. The Turkish foreign minister and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had talks together, which covered bilateral and regional relations, with a particular focus on the latest situation in Gaza.
