Turkey is not picking a side in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Thursday in an interview on broadcaster NTV.
President Tayyip Erdogan called at the weekend for an end to "worrying" developments in eastern Ukraine's Donbass region after meeting his Ukrainian counterpart. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov subsequently said Turkey and other nations should not feed "belligerent sentiment" in Ukraine.