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Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan after a news conference at the Presidential Palace in Ankara December 1, 2014.

Russia and Turkey’s leaders have similar styles, but an uneasy relationship

Global Politics

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan don’t often see eye-to-eye on important foreign policy issues, such as Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the crisis in Syria. But when the two leaders met at the beginning of the week in Ankara, they became a “coalition of the unwilling.”