The Duran is a good source for Erdogan stories and analysis. From memory, Russia is pissed that Turkey released the AZOV POWs back into Ukr, despite agreeing not to.
Duran some times invoke the story of the frog and the scorpion to explain him. "It's his nature."
Turkey was to make bank off being a natural gas "hub" for Russian nat gas. Recently Moscow has been using different, weaker language to describe that future arrangement.Turkey was making big money off the grain deal. Not any more. EU was also making money. The biggest single consumer of the grain were pigs in Spain.
I recently saw photos of Turkish cluster munition shells allegedly sold to Kiev. Erdogan has been trying to patch things up with Moscow. These shells might make that difficult.
Russia alleges that EU said they would make it easier to Russia to export RU grain in exchange for the grain deal by removing some sanctions and allowing a RU ag bank back on SWIFT but did nothing in 9 months. RU also alleges that the grain corridor was used to transport weapons to Kiev. Again, factual reporting is rare.
Turkey is twitchy about Kiev attacking RU ships patrolling the RU-Turkey nat gas pipeline as they believe Kiev wants to blow up that pipeline.
