So he Turks do not want to be Russian canon fodder when he claims ownership of the PLO to protest Israel for his own aggrandisement?
This guy is the dupe at the table and only one not to figure
Erdogan is a Turkey. Headshake.
Any alliance between Russia and Turkey shall be uneasy and strained, considering all their history from the fall of Constantinople onward.
The Turks, and especially Erdogan, have as an underlying objective, the reestablishment of the Ottoman Empire. Unfortunately, this runs headlong into the idea of Imperial Russia, a dream the Russians have never given up.
Even when the country was under Communist rule. The Russians might not be Communists any more, but they are still Russians.