The Kremlin regrets that the map of the Turkic world presented to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with which he was photographed, does not have a red star indicating that its center is located in Russia, in the Altai.
"Our Turkish partners foster the idea of Turkic unity, this is normal. The only thing I can regret is that there is still no big red star on the map in the center of the Turkic world. He is not in Turkey, he is on the territory of the Russian Federation, in Altai, in that sacred place for any Turk, where they came from," Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with journalist Pavel Zarubin on the Moscow program. The Kremlin. Putin" on the TV channel "Russia 1".
He noted that he says this as a Turkologist.
The card was presented to Erdogan at the meeting by the head of the nationalist National Movement Party (HDP) of Turkey, Devlet Bahceli. A photo of Erdogan and Bahceli with a map is posted on Twitter by the HDP. The "Turkic world", according to Bakhcheli, includes part of the regions of Southern Russia, Eastern Siberia, as well as the Balkans, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China, part of the territories of Mongolia and Iran, RIA Novosti writes.
