Turkey increased its purchases from Russia by 105%. The brand of Russian goods is changed to Turkish to circumvent sanctions. This scheme brought Moscow up to 3 billion euros in 2023. It is necessary to increase control over exports and imports from the Russian Federation to the EU.”

2 comments

1. Unfortunately, Turkiye controls all marine traffic into the Black Sea, so there is not a lot the EU can do in the way of sanctions without putting several EU states at severe risk of reprisals. Erdogan is not a man that can be trusted to do the right thing. All the EU can do, practically, is bribe him so he will do the right thing even if it is for the wrong reason.

2. Turkey is a shitty member of NATO. I doubt they could ever be relied upon to fulfil their treaty commitments