March 30 () –
The President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has opened the door to a visit by the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, to Turkish territory in April, within the framework of a ceremony to mark the start of the construction of the first nuclear power plant in Turkey, the Akkuyu plant, on the southern coast of the country.
“Putin may be present on April 27, or we will connect online,” Erdogan revealed to the media, in statements collected by the state news agency Anadolu.
It has also confirmed that the Russian state energy company Rosatom will be in charge of supplying fuel to the plant. This company, according to ifnorma Interfax, owns almost all the shares of the Akkuyu plant.
Turkey is not one of the signatory countries of the Rome Statute that binds the states to the International Criminal Court (ICC), so it would have no obligation to arrest Putin, who has an arrest warrant issued by the ICC for the deportations of Ukrainian children from Russian-occupied land in Ukraine.
The relationship is good between Erdogan and Putin, who this Saturday held a telephone conversation in which they discussed the extension of the grain export agreement and, in general terms, the evolution of the war in Ukraine.
