Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian president Vladimir Putin will hold talks on Tuesday to hammer out details of restoring the two countries’ relationship after seven months of stand-off over Turkey’s shooting down of a Russian military aircraft.
Mr Putin will meet Mr Erdogan in St Petersburg, the Russian president’s home town, the two leaders’ first encounter since they met at the G20 summit in the Turkish city of Antalya last November. Just weeks after that, Turkey downed the Russian military jet which Ankara said had entered Turkish airspace from Syria.
Following the incident, in which one of the two Russian pilots was killed, Moscow suspended contacts with Ankara and slapped economic sanctions on Turkey.
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