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Russia couldn’t have found a more reliable friend than Turkey: the sides are openly discussing the existing discrepancies and issues, Turkish FM Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said in an interview with Sputnik Turkish.

In his words, Turkey is Russia’s friend in the region. “And Russia also couldn’t have found a more reliable friend for itself than Turkey,” he noted.

According to the Turkish FM, Ankara and Moscow “are ready to discuss openly and impartially with each other all the issues, including the disputed ones.”

“We may have diverging opinions, but our key objective is to bring our bilateral cooperation to a higher level than before.  We have always considered and continue to consider Russia not only our neighbor, but also an important partner. For this reason we continued to make steps towards Russia. During this period, we attached great importance to the balanced and reserved language in our statements related to Russia. We didn’t introduce any sanctions against Russia, adhering to our previous promise not to join the international restrictions against Russia. Thereby, we have remained the only NATO country which didn’t support those sanctions. Russia and the Russian people had an opportunity to make sure of this,” Çavuşoğlu said, RIA Novosti reports. 

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