Turkish Foreign Minister meets with Putin in the Kremlin

“Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday evening,” the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The meeting started at 4:50 pm local time and continues. “

Earlier, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Putin and Fidan’s visit would be brief.

Hours before the meeting, a diplomatic source in Ankara had announced that Fidan had met with Russian negotiating chairman Vladimir Madinsky in Istanbul talks and discussed the process of peace talks on the Ukrainian crisis.

The source also confirmed that during his trip to Moscow, Fidan was also expected to meet Putin and talk to the head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Sergei Narcishkin.

According to the diplomatic official, the process of negotiations to resolve the Ukrainian crisis has been discussed.

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