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00:00Well, I'm sure Zelensky would like Erdogan to say to Trump, don't drain out.
00:08Now, Erdogan and Trump have a rapport.
00:12Erdogan has a much better rapport with Trump than he ever had with Biden.
00:16However, Trump is a strictly transactional president,
00:21and I don't think that Erdogan has the leverage with Trump
00:27to change Trump's mind.
00:30You know, Trump will work according to his own agenda.
00:37So what are the talks there then about, Jasper?
00:43Well, I'd like to say at two o'clock Turkish time,
00:48Zelensky will be meeting Erdogan at that palace over there on the left.
00:55Turkey has always supported Ukraine politically and militarily.
01:00Turkey has never recognized Russia's annexation of Crimea
01:05or the other Ukrainian provinces.
01:07Turkey also sells military drones to Ukraine.
01:12Against that, Turkey has never implemented the West's sanctions on Russia
01:18simply because it is economically dependent on Russia.
01:22It gets a large chunk of its energy from Russia
01:26and it sells a lot of agricultural products to Russia.
01:30So trying to balance those two interests,
01:33Turkey has long played an intermediary role in the Ukrainian conflict.
01:39In the months after Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022,
01:45Turkey hosted two rounds of peace talks between Russian and Ukrainian negotiators.
01:52Turkey has also negotiated several prisoner swaps between Russia and Ukraine.