Turkey backs Ukraine’s NATO bid & Crimea policy, says military industry cooperation with Kiev is ‘not aimed against 3rd countries’

Ankara has backed

Ankara has backed Ukraine’s bid to join NATO and vowed to expand defense industry cooperation as well as “coordinate steps” with Kiev to reclaim Crimea, while also insisting it does not seek to take steps against third countries.

“Our main goal is that the Black Sea continues to be a sea of peace, tranquility and cooperation,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at a joint press conference following three-hour-long talks with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky in Istanbul on Saturday.

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