Turkey Ready to Host Leaders’ Summit to End Ukraine War

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has voiced optimism that Turkey may soon host a new round of high-level peace talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine. Speaking to TRT Haber, Erdogan said that Turkey remained committed to its role as a mediator and called for an immediate end to the war. “We believe this war must end now. I always emphasize our readiness to host a leaders’ summit. Turkey sincerely hopes, dear friends, that just as the negotiation table was set in Istanbul, a table of peace will be set in Turkey in the near future, and this bloody war will end,” — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Erdogan stressed that since the beginning of the conflict, Ankara had followed a “balanced, fair, and peace-oriented policy.” He cited the Istanbul grain corridor agreement, the prisoner exchanges, and earlier rounds of peace talks held in Istanbul and Antalya as concrete examples of Turkey’s efforts to promote dialogue and stability. Direct negotiations between Moscow and Kyiv resumed in May 2025, marking the first face-to-face diplomacy between the two sides in over a year. So far, three rounds have taken place — on May 16, June 2, and July 23.