After the signing of an agreement on grain exports between Ukraine and Russia, will Turkey achieve diplomatic success.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visits Vladimir Putin.

The two presidents meet in Sochi on the Black Sea.

On the menu: the war in Ukraine.

Turkey wants to try to obtain the opening of negotiations for a truce, between the Russian president and the Ukrainian, Volodymyr Zelensky, if possible in Istanbul.

“We discussed (to see) whether the grain agreement could be an opportunity for a lasting ceasefire,” Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Cavusoglu said on Wednesday after meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergei. Lavrov in Asia.

Discord in Syria and drones

Except that these efforts are complicated by Ankara's repeated threats of military operations in Syria, where Russian and Turkish interests collide.

Moscow has largely backed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the face of groups backed in part by Turkey.

Today, Erdogan wants to cross the border again to establish a security zone in an area where Russian troops and their cronies are already patrolling, but from where he wants to drive out the Kurdish groups he considers "terrorists".

In Tehran last month, he was clearly warned by the Russian president against any further military operations in Syria aimed at repelling Kurdish fighters from the PKK, the Kurdistan Workers' Party and its allies.

“It is likely that the meeting (on Friday) will focus on a possible incursion into Syria, for which Turkey did not obtain the green light from Russia or Iran”, remarks the specialist in international relations Soli Ozel, from Has University in Istanbul.

"Russia should get something in return," he said.

For some Turkish media, this "thing in return" that Vladimir Putin wants is Bayraktar-TB2 combat drones that Ankara has provided to Ukraine and whose effectiveness has been proven against Russian tanks.

If a Turkish official assures that President Erdogan was joking when he reported on his return from Tehran a request from Putin to this effect, the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov for his part assured that "military and technological cooperation always figures on the agenda of both countries.

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