I wouldn’t call Erdogan a buddy of Putin per se unless you’re meaning in purely the economic sense. Turkish foreign policy has been acting contrary to the Russian one in many instances. They recognize and aid and sell weapons to Ukraine on a pretty large scale, to the point of building a drone factory in Kyiv (that was bombed by Russia about a year ago). They protected dissident Chechens fighting as jihadists in Syria from destruction in Idlib and backed groups like HTS there which ultimately destroyed Russian backed Assad forces and lost Russia a ton of bases in Syria, and they’ve also been backing opposite sides elsewhere in other recently active conflicts (notably Libya). They shot down a Russian jet back some years back when it flew over their territory. Refused to allow warships to travel inside or outside the Black Sea which was more damaging to Russia than anyone else.
Economically however they are pretty strongly linked and the Turkish economy is not looking amazing so Turkey has very little appetite for the sanctions so in an economic sense sure. Even so, some economic moves like the recent signing of Turkish-supported TRIPP are problematic for Russia; that one sets up another east-west route from Turkey to Central Asia. That route bypasses Russia so if that doesn’t wind up being vaporware (which is very possible) then that’s more dings at Russia’s economy and international leverage.
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Israel is more of a buddy of russia than Turkey
I wouldn’t call Erdogan a buddy of Putin per se unless you’re meaning in purely the economic sense. Turkish foreign policy has been acting contrary to the Russian one in many instances. They recognize and aid and sell weapons to Ukraine on a pretty large scale, to the point of building a drone factory in Kyiv (that was bombed by Russia about a year ago). They protected dissident Chechens fighting as jihadists in Syria from destruction in Idlib and backed groups like HTS there which ultimately destroyed Russian backed Assad forces and lost Russia a ton of bases in Syria, and they’ve also been backing opposite sides elsewhere in other recently active conflicts (notably Libya). They shot down a Russian jet back some years back when it flew over their territory. Refused to allow warships to travel inside or outside the Black Sea which was more damaging to Russia than anyone else.
Economically however they are pretty strongly linked and the Turkish economy is not looking amazing so Turkey has very little appetite for the sanctions so in an economic sense sure. Even so, some economic moves like the recent signing of Turkish-supported TRIPP are problematic for Russia; that one sets up another east-west route from Turkey to Central Asia. That route bypasses Russia so if that doesn’t wind up being vaporware (which is very possible) then that’s more dings at Russia’s economy and international leverage.
LoL if you think Turkey and Russia are friends, then your read on global politics is very misdirected.
Who do you think Russia has been fighting in Syria all these years?