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Turkey's busy diplomatic agenda: Egypt, Ukraine, Libya
April 15, 2021The European Union’s leaders are still preoccupied with the "protocol crisis" they conjured up last week, as Turkey launches a diplomatic offensive.
The European Union’s leaders are still preoccupied with the "protocol crisis" they conjured up last week, as Turkey launches a diplomatic offensive.
In recent days, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spoke by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin before hosting his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskiy to mark the 10th anniversary of Ankara and Kyiv’s strategic partnership. Turkey’s message to both leaders was that it favored a diplomatic solution to the Donbass conflict.
On April 12, Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh attended a meeting of the Turkey-Libya High Level Strategic Cooperation Council in the capital Ankara, along with five deputy prime ministers, 14 Cabinet ministers and Turkey's top military commander. The large Libyan delegation’s visit signaled that Tripoli attached special importance to its relations with the Turks at a time when European leaders continue to frequent the Libyan capital.
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