Erdogan Meets Putin to Repair Ties Amidst Tense Relations with West

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin met on Tuesday in St. Petersburg, highlighting efforts to renew their strained relationship and indicating a joint effort to find common ground in the Syrian crisis is in the cards.

The meeting — Erdogan’s first foreign visit following the failed July coup in Turkey — aimed at helping to repair ties between the two countries following Turkey’s downing of a Russian warplane along the Turkish-Syrian border last November. Erdogan sent Putin a letter in June apologizing for the incident, which Putin at the time called a “stab in the back” and caused relations between Moscow and Ankara to sour.

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