The Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Sunday that Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan will travel to Russia on Monday, where he is scheduled to meet with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov and attend a BRICS meeting. During the visit, the latest developments in Ukraine, Gaza, Syria, Libya, and the South Caucasus will be discussed, according to the Turkish Foreign Ministry's statement. Ankara, which has sought to maintain its relationships with both Kyiv and Moscow since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, has offered its mediation on several occasions to help resolve the crisis through negotiations.
Special attention will be given to "economic cooperation" between Moscow and Ankara during the Turkish Foreign Minister's visit. The Turkish ministry's statement emphasized that "the mutual desire of both parties to increase bilateral investments continues." In Moscow, Fidan, who visited China earlier this week, is set to attend the foreign ministers' meeting of BRICS countries scheduled for June 11 in Nizhny Novgorod (east of Moscow). Twenty countries, including Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, and Turkey, have been invited to this meeting. The Turkish Foreign Minister will travel to Russia coming from Doha, where he met with the head of Hamas' political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, on Sunday during a "high-level strategic dialogue for cooperation between Turkey and the Gulf," as the ministry reported on the X platform.
