{"id":21124,"date":"2016-08-31T19:27:21","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T19:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2016\/08\/31\/russia-turkey-relations-rapprochement-on-russian-terms\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T21:54:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:54:26","slug":"russia-turkey-relations-rapprochement-on-russian-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/commentary\/2016\/08\/31\/russia-turkey-relations-rapprochement-on-russian-terms\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia-Turkey Relations: Rapprochement on Russian Terms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Barely seven months after a Turkish Air Force pilot shot down a Russian Su-24 fighter jet, relations between  <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\">  Russia <\/st1:country-region> and  <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\"> <st1:place w:st=\"on\">   Turkey  <\/st1:place> <\/st1:country-region> began to thaw. In late June 2016, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan\u00a0dramatically backed down from his former obstinate position of no apology, hence no surrender and wrote a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, gleefully published by the Kremlin. Expressing &#8220;sympathy and profound condolences to the family of the Russian pilot,&#8221; Erdogan asked  <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\"> <st1:place w:st=\"on\">   Russia  <\/st1:place> <\/st1:country-region> to &#8220;excuse us.&#8221; He also said that a Turkish man suspected of killing the pilot would be prosecuted.<\/span><br\/><br\/><span lang=\"EN-GB\">On June 29, Putin spoke to Erdogan on the phone for the first time since the incident. Putin agreed to lift travel restrictions and begin negotiating an end to other economic sanctions. As a result, it can be said that Erdogan\u2019s apology exposed both weakness of the Turkish president, who until an apology was issued was not ready to bend down, and the degree of pragmatism following sweeping economic sanctions imposed by Putin on  <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\"> <st1:place w:st=\"on\">   Turkey  <\/st1:place> <\/st1:country-region> that indeed hurt the Turkish economy.<\/span><br\/><br\/><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The chill in bilateral relations demonstrated that  <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\">  Turkey <\/st1:country-region> is more dependent on  <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\"> <st1:place w:st=\"on\">   Russia  <\/st1:place> <\/st1:country-region> than vice versa. The so-called strategic partnership between  <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\">  Turkey <\/st1:country-region> and  <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\"> <st1:place w:st=\"on\">   Russia  <\/st1:place> <\/st1:country-region> coined by some Turkish analysts and commentators never really existed but was rather a Turkish vision without strategic backup that failed at the first test of worsening relations between the two countries. The recent rapprochement produced a clear winner in the clash of personalities, namely Putin, while Erdogan was cornered without a chance for escape.<\/span><br\/><br\/><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Furthermore, it is evident that rapprochement is not leading back to the same cozy relations that once existed between the presidents. Despite Erdogan calling Putin &#8220;my dear friend,&#8221; there is no reciprocity from the side of Putin. This time it is evident that Putin leads while Erdogan listen and follows. In other words, the dynamic of bilateral relations has worsened for Erdogan, even if he is not yet ready to admit it.<\/span><br\/><br\/><span lang=\"EN-GB\">We need to remember that the failed military coup in Turkey on July 15 put Erdogan in an enviable position. Domestically, Erdogan is cleansing the Gulenists\u00a0\u2014\u00a0those following the Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen, who is\u00a0based in the US and who Erdogan accuses of orchestrating the coup\u00a0\u2014\u00a0and the process has not yet reached its end, while the war in Syria rages as before and the relations between Turkey and its Western allies have worsened to the point that US Secretary of State John Kerry raised an issue of expelling Turkey from NATO.<br\/><\/span><br\/><br\/><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-smg-jwplayer-video\"><atype-video-jwplayer nostick=\"true\" playlisturl=\"https:\/\/cdn.jwplayer.com\/v2\/playlists\/fCzRqMW8?tags=bd0ca02b-f4b1-4750-9435-517deab48080\" aspectratio=\"16 \/ 9\" mute autostart=\"false\"><\/atype-video-jwplayer><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Aaron Stein, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East discusses Turkey\u2019s military vulnerabilities in the wake of its recent coup.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turkish Foreign Affairs Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu noted July 25: &#8220;We have received unconditional support from  <st1:place w:st=\"on\"> <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\">   Russia  <\/st1:country-region> <\/st1:place>, unlike other countries.&#8221; He was likely referring to Western allies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The &#8220;unconditional support&#8221; comes from the same  <st1:place w:st=\"on\"> <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\">   Russia  <\/st1:country-region> <\/st1:place> that strengthened Syria President Bashar Assad&#8217;s regime since March 2011 and continues to do so today. Apparently, Erdogan and the government of Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim have belatedly waken up to the reality that Assad is there to stay whether they like it or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In another relevant case of the two countries&#8217; rapprochement on May 11, Erdogan complained that the  <st1:place w:st=\"on\">  Black Sea <\/st1:place> has become a &#8220;Russian lake.&#8221; Erdogan told NATO Secretary-General Jan Stoltenberg: &#8220;You are absent in the Black Sea and that is why it has nearly become a Russian lake, and we should perform our duty as we are the countries with access to the  <st1:place w:st=\"on\">  Black Sea <\/st1:place>.&#8221; After the rapprochement, the Erdogan statement was discarded and forgotten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In both cases in  <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\">  Syria <\/st1:country-region> and in the Black Sea region,\u00a0 <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\">  Russia <\/st1:country-region> demonstrated to  <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\">  Turkey <\/st1:country-region> that if  <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\">  Turkey <\/st1:country-region> is willing to join  <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\">  Russia <\/st1:country-region> then it should be on clearly articulated Russian terms, namely accepting the reality that  <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\">  Russia <\/st1:country-region> leads while  <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\"> <st1:place w:st=\"on\">   Turkey  <\/st1:place> <\/st1:country-region> follows. 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