Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan has probably never held more global sway: he will host the first direct Russia-Ukraine peace talks in three years on Thursday, days after his country's militant nemesis,

Turkey is deploying all-out diplomatic efforts to secure a Russia-Ukraine deal, to ease Syria's relations with the West and facilitate Iranian nuclear talks, its diplomatic standing burnished by Donald Trump's approval.

Ukrainian President ​​​​​​​Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Ankara, Turkey, to meet with Turkish President Erdogan as delegates from Russia and Ukraine are in Istanbul. Upon arrival, Zelenksy dismissed the Russian delegation as “phony.

When US President Donald Trump sat in the White House with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last month, there was a third character in the room. “I have great relations with a man called [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan.

President Trump said he made the decision to lift the sanctions after discussing the matter with Saudi Arabia’s crown prince and the president of Turkey.

President Trump on Sunday urged Ukrainian leaders to agree to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Turkey later this week to negotiate an end to the three-year conflict. “President

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