Turkey’s finance minister has defended Ankara’s economic ties with Russia as “good neighbourly relations” even as western governments raise concerns that the country is serving as a backdoor for Moscow to evade sanctions.
Nureddin Nebati said “opposition elements” inside and outside Turkey were “deliberately raising question marks” about the country’s financial links with Russia, while conceding there had been a rush of cash into its financial system.
While US and EU officials fret that Turkey, a Nato member that shares a Black Sea border with Russia and Ukraine, is relieving financial pressures on Moscow by not participating in western sanctions, Nebati insisted that economic ties between the two countries were “legal”.
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