Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin, leaders with remarkable similarities who built a new era of cooperation between Turkey and Russia, have suffered a ferocious falling-out that will harm relations for years to come.
The two presidents, who forged a strong friendship in over a decade in power, have traded a slew of insults since Turkey shot down a Russian warplane on November 24 on the Syrian border for alleged repeated violations of its airspace.
Putin has accused the Turkish leadership of importing oil from IS extremists in Syria, an accusation that Erdogan rubbished as a “slander” so untrue that the Russian …read more
Source: Pakistan Today
