Turkey's Erdogan cuts short Africa trip for virtual NATO meeting

ANKARA – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan cancelled a deliberate journey to Guinea-Bissau and is returning dwelling from Africa early to take part in a web-based assembly with NATO leaders, his workplace mentioned on Tuesday.

The president’s workplace mentioned the NATO summit was set for Wednesday.

The choice comes as Russia’s transfer to recognise two breakaway areas in east Ukraine as unbiased raised tensions amongst Turkey’s two Black Sea neighbours. Earlier, Erdogan mentioned Moscow’s transfer was unacceptable.

Erdogan was on a three-day journey with high cupboard members to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Senegal and Guinea-Bissau, and had been scheduled to return to Turkey on Wednesday.

America, European Union and different Western powers are involved a couple of large-scale struggle in Ukraine and have introduced, or are mulling, attainable sanctions on Russia.

Turkey has good ties with each Moscow and Kyiv and has supplied to behave as mediator, and opposes sanctions in precept.

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