Turkey does not join the sanctions against Russia, Cavusoglu said.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, at a press conference with his American counterpart Anthony Blinken, said that Ankara does not join the unilateral sanctions against Russia, while Ankara does not allow them to be circumvented.

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“Turkey does not join the sanctions (against the Russian Federation). It does not join the unilateral sanctions. We follow the decisions made by the UN,” Cavusoglu said at a press conference with Blinken on Monday in Ankara.

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According to him, Ankara will not allow Turkey to bypass the sanctions imposed by the US and the EU against Russia.

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“We clearly stated this from the very beginning and we do not allow this to be done (to circumvent sanctions). The US Deputy Treasury Secretary was on a visit to Turkey, held negotiations. We periodically receive information from the EU. We take all this into account, we consider it at cabinet meetings,” – said the head of the Turkish Foreign Ministry.

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Earlier, the official representative of the President of Turkey, Ibrahim Kalin, said that Turkey’s sanctions against Russia would play primarily against Ankara itself.