ИСТИНА

Today Russia and Turkey are important players in the Middle East affairs with a considerable potential for establishing a common agenda. Russia and Turkey do not have basic conflict of strategic interests. For the first time in history Russian-Turkish relations are being built on a completely new ideologically free basis of mutual respect, democracy, human rights, market economy. Last twenty years proved that historically this is the right way relevant to the major interests and expectations of our people and glob-al terms. Further favorable perspectives of Russian-Turkish cooperation are granted by three major factors. First is high level of mutual trust achieved at the political level. Second is solid economic basement. Third is psychological com-patibility of both nations sharing centuries-long, though controversial common history of two Euro-Asian powers.