Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu made the ridiculous claim and accused the Armenian lobby of carrying out anti-Turkish campaign in Russia.

Çavuşoğlu stated, on the air of Turkish state-run TRT television, that Turkey and Russia need to restore their relations like smart countries, and stressed that there is no direct contact yet between them.

The Turkish FM, however, seems to forget that after downing a Russian military plane over Syria in November 2015, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and then Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu had stated that they were right in destroying this aircraft, and this had caused anti-Turkish sentiments in Russia.

And after all this, the Turkish FM claimed that the cause of these anti-Turkish sentiments in Russia is the Armenian lobby which, as per Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, is influential in Russian media.