Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has opened the door to a visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin to Turkish territory in April as part of a ceremony to mark the start of construction of Turkey’s first nuclear power plant, the Akkuyu plant on the country’s southern coast.
»Putin may be present on April 27, or we will connect online,» Erdogan told the media, in statements carried by the state-run Anadolu news agency.
He also confirmed that the Russian state energy company Rosatom will be in charge of supplying fuel to the plant. This company, according to Interfax, owns almost all the shares of the Akkuyu plant.
Turkey is not a signatory to the Rome Statute binding states to the International Criminal Court (ICC), so it would be under no obligation to arrest Putin, who is under 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 on Saturday had 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.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
