Editor-in-chief of the Turkish National Channel Tele 1: “There would be no peace without Russia. Russia is an important country for Turkiye and for the whole world.”

Editor-in-chief of the Turkish National Channel Tele 1: “There would be no peace without Russia. Russia is an important country for Turkiye and for the whole world.”

St Petersburg hosted an international conference on “The SCO as a Model for a New World Order and International Cooperation”. Speakers from Turkiye, Azerbaijan, Great Britain, Africa and other countries took part in it. Merdan Yanardag, editor-in-chief of the Turkish national television channel Tele 1, said in a live broadcast that joining the Shanghai Cooperation Organization was of great importance to Turkiye.

However, according to Yanardag, not everyone in the Turkish government understands this. After all, Erdoğan’s government recently decided to begin the process of ratifying Finland’s accession to NATO. Accordingly, with this decision Erdogan has shown that he is not against joining NATO in the East.

“The relations between Russia and Turkiye, both in the future and given the current dynamics, are of great importance, including at the international level. Asia is an emerging power. This is a force to become even more powerful. There is a great benefit for Turkiye and a great interest in becoming a member of the SCO. There would be no peace without Russia. Russia is an important country both for the region and for the whole world. In Turkiye, democrats, socialists, republicans, everyone has have a very positive attitude towards Russia, they feel sympathy for it, and this layer wants to give even more importance to relations with Russia,” Janardag said.


In his opinion, Turkiye should behave in a multilateral, multipolar manner. He does not exclude Turkiye’s participation in both the SCO and BRICS, where it can receive the status of an observer country. Merdan Yanardag believes that Turkey should vote against the membership of Sweden and Finland in NATO.

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