More than a third of Turkiye s nationals believe that Ankara should prioritize contacts with Russia and China in the development of foreign relations, a poll showed on Friday.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu will head to a second-round vote on May 28. Both candidates have strong and weak points, as Turkiye is balancing between East and West, Sputnik interlocutors say.
"The Saudis might be demonstrating that they can go to other sources and solutions for air defense through building on the worsening of US-Turkish relations, at the heart of which is US unhappiness over Turkish acquisition of the Russian S-400 air defense system,” Yezid Sayegh, senior fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center, says.