Erdogan says Turkiye would consider full membership of China- and Russia-led security bloc

ANKARA: NATO member Turkiye would consider taking its relations with the China and Russia-led security bloc, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, to a higher level, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday.

“Turkey’s prospect of (full) membership to the organization does not imply a breakaway from any other bloc or from the West,” Erdogan said, according to a transcript of remarks he made to journalists on his return flight from Kyrgyzstan.

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Erdogan attended a summit of the SCO, of which Turkiye is a “dialogue partner”, in Bishkek on Tuesday.