Recep Erdoğan and Vladimir Putin set to meet

A day after the military coup in Ankara, the state-run Anadolu news agency announces the presidents of Russia and Turkey meeting at the beginning of August. The agency cited an anonymous “presidential source”.

The report released at the end of last week did not mention the date or the place of the meeting. Nevertheless, as quoted by the Turkish agency, Vladimir Putin has expressed its country's support “for Turkey following Friday’s attempted coup” and stressed the "categorical unacceptability in the life of a state of anti-constitutional acts and violence."

After the events on Friday, the Turkish government has announced the successful quashing of the violent coup in which 265 people have been left dead in Istanbul and Ankara in the attempt of a military fraction aiming to take over the power. Following the incident, more than 6.000 people have been arrested, while President Recep Taryyip Erdoğan threatened severe punishment for everyone involved in the coup.

As the diplomatic relationships between Turkey and Russia have been very tense after the shooting of a Russian warplane on the Turkish-Syrian border last year's November and after the tourist and trade sanctions on Turkey were lifted two weeks ago, the face-to-face meeting in August is expected to be a step forward for stability and constitutional order in the country.