Russia–Turkey relations
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Russia–Turkey relations are the bilateral relations between Russia and Turkey and their antecedent states. They are both countries with territory in Europe and Asia. Relations between the two are rath
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at the 2024 Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Astana, Kazakhstan, on 3 July 2024.
The Republic Monument (1928) at Taksim Square in Istanbul, crafted by Pietro Canonica. The people standing behind Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder of the Turkish Republic, include Semyon Ivanovich Aralov, Ambassador of the Russian SFSR in Ankara during the Turkish War of Independence (1919–1922). His presence in the monument, ordered by Atatürk, points out to the financial and military aid sent by Vladimir Lenin in 1920, during the war.
Ottoman postcard of the Russian Embassy's summer residence in the Büyükdere neighbourhood of Istanbul, on the Bosphorus. The main building of the Russian Embassy (since 1923 the Russian Consulate) is on İstiklal Avenue, in the Beyoğlu (Pera) district.
Soviet stamp of Turkish poet Nâzım Hikmet Ran, who died in Moscow and was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery