Turkey was expecting Russian President Vladimir Putin to make his expected visit to Turkey on February 12. But Turkish officials recently informed the Russian "TASS" agency that the visit was postponed to another date.
Never before in the history of Turkish-Russian relations, since they began to grow closely in recent years, has the ambiguity over setting the date for the two presidents’ visits to each other lasted this long. The failure of the visit to take place last April can be attributed to Putin’s heeding of the results of the Turkish presidential elections that took place last May.