President Tayyip Erdoğan and President of Russian Federation,Vladimir Putin, reached an agreement after long marathon talks in Sochi, and the deal seems to have pleased everyone.
Russia and Turkey are happy about the deal, and Donald Trump, who is supposed to be displeased with developments that make these two countries happy, strangely appears to be glad about the agreement in Sochi, too.
Trump says in his Twitter message that he sent after the letter of agreement between the two leaders was released: “Good news seems to be happening with respect to Turkey, Syria and the Middle East. Further reports to come later!”
What is more interesting than this is that several dissident columnists in Turkey who fiercely opposed the Turkish military operation in Syria are now positive about the agreement in Sochi in their initial statements.
Mehmet Y. Yılmaz, a dissident journalist, for instance, says in his piece titled “Erdoğan achieved his goal”:
“Where Turkey stands today must be seen as an achievement of Erdoğan although it was at the cost of bringing the relationships with Europe to the verge of a complete impasse. (..) At this stage, I can tell that President Tayyip Erdoğan returned back home from Sochi having achieved his objectives.”