Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan for Ankara’s contribution to closing of the grain deal, but also noted the necessity to lift restrictions on Russian exports of food and fertilizers, the press service of the Kremlin said in a statement following a telephone conversation between the leaders on Thursday.

Turkey’s state bank Ziraat bankasi has suspended the service of cards of the Russian Mir payment system in Turkey, Reuters reported citing chief executive Alpaslan Cakar on Thursday.

… Turkey , he said, would use “all the means at our disposal, when necessary” to defend its rights….

Turkey will not have any problems with the supply of gasin the upcoming winter period, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday.

The decision of Turkish banks to stop using Russia’s Mir payment cards was made under unprecedented pressure from the United States.

…Erdoğan had previously praised “serious progress” on expanding the use of Mir cards in Turkey ….

Turkey’s booming wartime trade with Moscow took a giant step back on Wednesday with confirmation that the last three banks still processing Russian card payments were pulling out under pressure from Washington.

Turkey may buy Russian Su-35 fighter jets if the United States refuses to sell F-16 to it, Turkish Undersecretary for Defense Industries Ismail Demir told CNN Turk.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday said that he wants to set up a meeting of Russian and Ukrainian presidents Vladimir Putin and Vladimir Zelensky as soon as possible.

Turkey is not going to recognize the accession of the Donetsk and the Lugansk People’s Republics as well as the Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions to Russia, just as it never recognized Crimea’s, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said at a news conference in Tokyo on Monday.