Take last week’s summit meeting between Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Modi’s government, though, seemed to be at pains to sprinkle some nails on the red carpet it laid out. A day before Erdogan landed, Indian officials hosted the president of the Republic of Cyprus—not exactly Istanbul’s favourite regime. To make matters worse, India had sent vice president Hamid Ansari to Armenia a few days earlier. Erdogan’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, shortly after his India trip, seemed to confirm that noisy jostling will now precede any significant deal-making.

Source: Mint May 08, 2017 04:18 UTC