The New York Times, one of the leading newspapers in the USA, evaluated the recently increasing relations between Russia and Turkey. New York Times columnist Steve Erlanger, “While Erdogan is preparing for a risky election and planning a new cross-border operation in Syria, Turkey is in search of cash, gas and trade, and Putin needs friends to escape Western sanctions,” he said. made its assessment.
Steve Erlanger, in his article describing the “variable” for President Erdogan of AKP, wrote that the central bank has dried up, the annual inflation is around 80 percent and Erdogan entered the 2023 elections with difficulty.
Erlanger stated that Russian President Putin has his own problems and is stuck in the war in Ukraine, and Western sanctions hit the Russian industry hard.
Erlanger said that the meeting of Erdogan and Putin twice in the last three weeks caused anxiety on the part of NATO and that NATO began to question Erdogan’s loyalty, adding that Putin made a hole in Western sanctions thanks to Erdogan.
Erlanger also “Erdogan is doing badly in the polls for the 2023 election. Erdogan’s bad luck in the polls is because the deteriorating economy is destroying people and Turkish citizens are losing patience with the millions of refugees entering the country.” said.
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