ANKARA, Mar 24 Turkey's presidential contender, leader Doğu Perinçek said that he does not recognize the sanctions against Russia, and if he comes to power, he intends to use the opportunities to fight them.
Perincek has submitted an application to the Supreme Electoral Council to run for the presidency of Turkey in the elections to be held on 14 May. The politician needs to collect 100,000 signatures.
«We do not recognize sanctions against Russia. Sanctions against Russia are sanctions against Turkey, and we will use the golden opportunity to fight these sanctions,» Perincek said.
Motherland is a left-wing party that stands on the positions of the first president of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, and has an anti-Western and anti-American orientation. The party considers itself the legal successor of the Socialist Party of Workers and Peasants, founded in 1919. It is not represented in the Turkish parliament, but is an influential force, especially in the regions. There are currently over 50,000 members of the party.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu earlier at a press conference with his American counterpart Anthony Blinken said that Ankara does not join the unilateral sanctions against Russia, while not allowing them to be circumvented. The official representative of the Turkish President, Ibrahim Kalin, said that Turkey's sanctions against the Russian Federation will play primarily against Ankara itself.
Moscow has repeatedly stated that Russia will cope with the sanctions pressure that the West began to exert on it several years ago and continues to increase. Moscow noted that the West lacks the courage to acknowledge the failure of sanctions against the Russian Federation. In the Western countries themselves, opinions have been heard more than once that anti-Russian sanctions are ineffective.