During a press conference on board a plane while returning from his visit to Hungary, the president recalled the upcoming meeting of the Group of 20 (G20) in India and the United Nations General Assembly, scheduled for September.

If we have the opportunity, we will meet face to face with Putin’, said the head of state and added that Ankara could be a mediator in the Ukrainian conflict, a subject discussed during the visit of President Volodymir Zelenski to the Turkish city of Istanbul last July.

This possibility also emerged from the meetings held by Türkiye at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Summit in Vilma, capital of Lithuania, Erdogan said.

According to the Anadolu news agency, he plans to send Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan to Russia in order to achieve concrete results in the negotiations on the resumption of the food agreement.

In addition, early this August, Putin and Erdogan agreed in a telephone conversation on a meeting in Türkiye and, according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, the agreement on the date and other details of the exchange will go through diplomatic channels.

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