{"id":10730,"date":"2022-09-16T13:17:29","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T13:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=10730"},"modified":"2022-09-16T13:17:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T13:17:29","slug":"erdogan-urges-end-to-war-in-ukraine-as-soon-as-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/erdogan-urges-end-to-war-in-ukraine-as-soon-as-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"Erdogan urges end to war in Ukraine &#8216;as soon as possible&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erdogan urges end to war in Ukraine &#8216;as soon as possible&#8217;. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday told a regional summit attended by Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that he wanted the war in Ukraine to end &#8220;as soon as possible&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Erdogan has been trying to use his good working relations with Moscow to try and persuade Putin to hold direct ceasefire talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>He told a meeting of the <a href=\"http:\/\/eng.sectsco.org\/\">Shanghai Cooperation Organisation<\/a> in ex-Soviet Uzbekistan that Turkey was making diplomatic efforts to end the war.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pm-shehbaz-meets-russian-president-putin-discuss-bilateral-ties.html\">PM Shehbaz meets Russian President Putin, discuss bilateral ties<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are making efforts to finalise the conflict in Ukraine through diplomacy as soon as possible,&#8221; Erdogan said.<\/p>\n<p>Erdogan also echoed Putin&#8217;s concern that grain shipped out of Ukraine under a UN and Turkish-brokered agreement was not reaching enough developing countries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are making sincere efforts to deliver the grain to those who need it most, especially our brothers and sisters in Africa,&#8221; Erdogan said.<\/p>\n<p>Erdogan was due to hold a private meeting with Putin on the sidelines of the Samarkand summit later Friday.<\/p>\n<p>NATO member Turkey has been supplying weapons to Ukraine while trying to boost trade with Russia during the war.<\/p>\n<p>Erdogan argues that this &#8220;balanced&#8221; position is required because of Turkey&#8217;s heavy dependence on Russian energy supplies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erdogan urges end to war in Ukraine &#8216;as soon as possible&#8217;. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday told a regional summit attended by Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that he wanted the war in Ukraine to end &#8220;as soon as possible&#8221;. Erdogan has been trying to use his good working relations with Moscow to try [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[6820,602,477,2547,6819],"class_list":["post-10730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-erdogan","tag-shanghai-cooperation-organisation","tag-turkish-president-recep-tayyip-erdogan","tag-ukraine","tag-ukrainian-president-volodymyr-zelensky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}