Turkey is constantly feeling Western pressure because of its unwillingness to join the anti-Russian sanctions, Russia's Ambassador to Turkey Alexei Yerkhov said the Rossiya-24 TV channel on Monday.
"As far as I understand, Turkey does not want to join the sanctions and in this regard feels constant Western pressure," he said.
"Ankara's position here boils down, among other things, to the fact that it is the non-participation in the regime of anti-Russian restrictions, maintaining contacts and relations with both Russia and Ukraine that gives Turkey grounds to claim just this mediatory role between Moscow and Kiev," Yerkhov noted.
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