Russian President Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Recep Tayyip Erdogan: But despite the council name, the meeting between Putin and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is unlikely to be of overly cooperative nature. Both key powers in the Black Sea region as well as in the Middle East, Russia and Turkey encounter each other rather frequently on the international stage - more often than not at odds with each other political aims, according to Deutsche Welle. Harsh rhetoric to be expected and Russian President Vladimir Putin will travel to Turkey to take part in a session of the High Level Cooperation Council, similar to a joint cabinet meeting for both countries. The Syrian crisis, for example, saw Erdogan calling for the removal of Bashar al-Assad from power, whereas Putin is regarded as one of the Syrian president most important international allies. In the Ukraine crisis, Turkey openly criticized the annexation of the Crimean peninsula, which is only an hour flight from Istanbul and home to the Crimean tartars, a people related to the Turks. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.