Posted on 04/07/2022 7:36:36 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Mounting evidence of atrocities against Ukrainian civilians allegedly by Russian troops has stalled Turkey’s efforts to mediate a ceasefire and broader settlement between the two countries, a senior Turkish official has said.
Ibrahim Kalin, a senior adviser to Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, told the Financial Times that the horrific images of dead civilians in towns such as Bucha and Borodyanka had affected Ukraine’s willingness to continue negotiations.
In Ankara’s strongest condemnation yet of the killing of civilians, Kalin said: “We are all outraged by the pictures of . . . human rights violations and possible war crimes.” He added that the atrocities risked stalling the resumption of negotiations, “especially on the Ukrainian side”, saying they would “maybe take a pause for a few days and then regroup”.
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Kalin, who is also presidential spokesman, said Russia appeared to be as concerned about the economic impact of western sanctions as it was about its military operations. “They suffered a lot of losses there [in Ukraine], but the economic losses are beginning to have an impact on the overall economic situation and policy thinking, probably,” he said.
He added that there would need to be “some kind of a mutual, gradual process of managing the sanctions package”, suggesting Moscow would want sanctions relief if it took steps towards ending the conflict. “From the Russian point of view, that’s the only way they will probably make concessions,” Kalin said.
Talks have focused on neutral status for Ukraine and the security guarantees it expects in return. Ukraine is insisting on guarantees from the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and other countries, including Turkey and Germany, to prevent future attacks.
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Yeah, that'll work well.
Maybe the Chinese could command an international UN peacekeeping force. Turn Ukraine into a belt and roads country.
Oh boy, Turks condemning atrocities, war crimes and human rights violations. The irony is thick.
“Moscow would want sanctions relief if it took steps towards ending the conflict”
Only step they need to take is to step back inside their own damned borders.
Turkey upset about human rights. You can’t make this stuff up.
F da turks! They are shielding the ruskies and have NEVER been a Good partner nor good NATO member.
I understand that beating your wife puts a crimp on marriage counseling too.
Same reaction here. Armenia, anyone? Or the massacres and diaspora of Greeks from the coastal cities of Anatolia following WWI. But then, on the same basis should we also discount anything the Germans or Japanese have to say on the matter?
“But then, on the same basis should we also discount anything the Germans or Japanese have to say on the matter?”
I didn’t say we should discount what they say, just that it’s quite ironic that they are the ones saying it.
But the Germans and the Japanese have at least to some degree acknowledged their past crimes and tried to prevent themselves from repeating them. Turkey has never done any such thing.
Contain it. And step back and let them kill each other off.
The quicker they get it out of their system and get tired of burying people, the better.
Over here in this country, the focus must remain on the SOB in this country who caused this whole thing.
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