Talks need to yield results: Erdogan to delegates

PBC News:  Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said both Ukraine’s Zelensky and Russia’s Putin are “valuable friends”, as he sets the scene for talks in Istanbul on Tuesday morning.

He said progress at the talks would pave the way for the leaders to meet – and that Turkey could host that too, BBC reports.

He also told the Russian and Ukrainian teams that both sides have “legitimate concerns” but that they have reached a moment when talks need to yield “concrete results”