A Russian video was published by a Russian news agency, featuring the Turkish President Reccep Tayyib Erdogan waiting for minutes at the office door of his Russian counterpart, President Vladimir Putin, before he was allowed to enter to meet Putin last Thursday.
The video, published by the government news agency "Russia 1", shows footage of Erdogan's stay in the waiting room for relatively a long time, along with his companions, before he was allowed to enter.
The Kremlin has not commented on the content of the footage.
According to media analysts, Putin has, intentionally, made Erdogan wait for him, because of their differences in Idlib, Syria.
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The footage appeared that Putin was in the meeting room alone, while Erdogan and his big delegation stayed in the waiting room for minutes, without allowing them to enter.
After a period of waiting, Erdogan decided to sit down to rest, while Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu remained standing, before Russian officials authorized the Turkish president to enter the meeting.
The agency titled the video on its page: "Erdogan is waiting for Putin under the picture of Suvorov", a painting of a famous leader in the Russian Empire, who fought several wars against the Ottomans and won between 1774 and 1786.
In Moscow, the Russian and Turkish heads of state met last week to ease tensions over the countries’ involvement in Syria. A ceasefire deal was met for Idlib, the last stronghold of the Syrian opposition.
The agreement also included a seven-mile wide corridor along the M4 highway that runs through the Idlib province eastward toward the Iraq border that will be patrolled jointly by Russian and Turkish troops, beginning March 15.
The fighting in Idlib has been the largest strain on Turkish-Russian relations since the crisis triggered by Turkey’s downing of a Russian warplane in November 2015.
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