'Balancing act': Erdoğan to sound out Putin on Ukraine and Syria - Turkish Minute

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Erdoğan made Putin stand in place for nearly 50 seconds before walking out to greet him in Tehran.
49% : US officials say a Russian team has visited Iran to scope out the purchase of hundreds of drones for its own forces in Ukraine.
43% : "In most likelihood, (Friday's) meeting has something do with a possible incursion into Syria, for which Turkey did not get a green light from Russia -- or from Iran, for that matter," said foreign affairs analyst Soli Özel of İstanbul's Kadir Has University.
38% : Putin told Russian media in Tehran he still has "certain disagreements, obviously" with Erdoğan about Syria.
35% : Erdoğan has added to the intrigue by telling his cabinet that Putin asked him in Tehran to start selling the Bayraktars to Russia.
33% : Erdoğan was told by Putin in Tehran last month that Russia remains opposed to any new offensive that Turkey might be planning against Kurdish militants in northern Syria.

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