“It can hardly be that we are entering a period of some kind of special warming between Turkey and the United States. Rather, the United States is now forced to take those steps that will help them build relations with their NATO ally, because more recently they have taken decisions of a negative nature. So now it’s about trying to balance this situation, ”Novikov said.

Trump said earlier that the US will lift the sanctions imposed on Turkey on October 14.

On October 14, the US president signed a decree imposing sanctions against Turkey in connection with a military operation.