Overview
- Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan traveled to Moscow for talks on June 15–17 and held a public meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov while he was due to meet President Vladimir Putin.
- Fidan repeated Turkey's offer to host renewed Russia–Ukraine negotiations and proposed a limited ceasefire focused on ports and energy infrastructure to make talks more result-oriented.
- He raised Black Sea shipping safety and warned Russia to avoid steps that would harm Turkish interests after recent mutual accusations of drone attacks on tankers near Türkiye's northern coast.
- The agenda also pushed bilateral economic and energy cooperation, including discussion of the Akkuyu nuclear plant and the Blue Stream and TurkStream pipelines, while the S-400 sanctions issue remains unresolved ahead of the NATO summit.
- The visit increases diplomatic pressure ahead of the July 7–8 NATO leaders meeting by linking any progress on mediation to Ankara's push for a solution to U.S. CAATSA sanctions that legally require Türkiye to cease possession of the Russian S-400 systems.