Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov regrets that the map of the Turkic world that Nationalist Action Party (PND) leader Devlet Bahceli gave to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is not marked with a red star that its center is not in Turkey but in the Altai – in Russia. A Kremlin spokesman made his remark on Russia-1 TV channel during the “Moscow. Kremlin. Putin” program, quoted by TASS.
“Our Turkish partners are developing the idea of ​​Turkish unity and this is normal. I can only regret that there is no big red star on the map in the center of the Turkic world. This center is not in Turkey, but in the territory of the Russian Federation. , in Russia, “said Dmitry Peskov, who is fluent in Turkish and has twice served in the diplomatic service in Ankara. “This is a holy place for all Turks, where their family originates. I say it as a Turkologist.”
A photo of Erdogan and Bahceli, who framed the map of the so-called Turkic world. It includes a large part of Russian territory. Turkey, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are red. In orange are the lands of Bulgaria and several other Balkan countries, part of Iran, the southern regions of Russia, as well as much of Siberia and western Mongolia. Yellow are Altai, Yakutia and the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China. What these colors mean is not specified.
