“The fact that the Turkish president is in this photo is, to put it mildly, a challenge (for NATO. -

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), so to speak,” she said in an interview with Bild.

Earlier, the Iranian Foreign Ministry issued a final statement saying that Putin, Raisi and Erdogan, following talks in Tehran, decided to hold the next summit in Russia.

Foreign Policy magazine believes that the results of Putin's trip to the Middle East are more successful than the results of American leader Joe Biden.