NATO member suggests ‘ideal host’ for next Ukraine talks
Türkiye is an “ideal” country for hosting negotiations between the US, Russia and Ukraine, President Erdogan said
19 Feb, 2025 02:50
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he was ready to mediate the next round of negotiations between Kiev, Moscow and Washington
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) and Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky (L) at a press conference, Ankara, Türkiye, February 18, 2025. © Getty Images / Ercin Erturk/Anadolu
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that his country would be the best place to host new negotiations to end the Ukraine conflict. He made his statement during a meeting with Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky on Tuesday, who was not invited to high-profile Russian-US talks held the same day in Saudi Arabia.
“Our country will be an ideal host for possible talks between Russia, Ukraine and the United States,” Erdogan said, according to news agency Anadolu.
“In order for a just peace to be possible, the countries that we know to be powerful must show their attitude in favor of peace,” Erdogan stated at a press conference with Zelensky in Ankara.
The president noted that Russia and Ukraine negotiated Istanbul in March 2022, and later that summer Türkiye helped broker an agreement to facilitate the safe shipping of grain from Ukraine’s Black Sea ports.
“In all these efforts, we have sincerely endeavored to be a reliable mediator for both sides, and we have achieved concrete results,” Erdogan said.
Speaking at the same event, Zelensky said that Türkiye, together with the EU, the UK and the US, should be involved in devising “necessary security guarantees” for Kiev. He thanked Ankara for supporting Ukraine’s “sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
Zelensky previously complained that Ukraine was not invited to the US-Russian meeting in Riyadh and vowed not to accept any settlement reached without Kiev’s involvement. Officials in Kiev and the EU have voiced frustration that Trump launched direct negotiations with Russia without their advice and approval.
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Trump said that he was “very disappointed” with Kiev’s reaction and blamed Ukraine for failing to reach a deal with Russia over the course of the conflict.
According to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the talks in Istanbul broke down because the Ukrainian abruptly walked back from previously agreed terms, including the transformation of Ukraine into a permanently neutral country with a downsized army.
Victoria Nuland, a former senior State Department official, later confirmed that the US and other Western countries advised Ukraine against accepting Russia’s terms. In a recent interview with the Guardian, Zelensky insisted that in 2022 he rejected Moscow’s demands on his own.
Moscow has reiterated recently that Ukraine must renounce its plans to join NATO and abandon claims on Crimea and four other regions that are now part of Russia. Putin also said that he no longer considers Zelensky a legitimate leader of Ukraine because his five-year presidential term expired in May 2024 and no new elections were called due to martial law.
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