Türkiye's Deputy Foreign Minister Ambassador Musa Kulaklıkaya received Ambassador of the Russian Federation Sergei Vershinin in Ankara, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said on November 6. The ministry did not provide details about the meeting's agenda.
Before his appointment as ambassador to Ankara, Sergei Vershinin served as Russia's deputy foreign minister.

The meeting took place amid active Turkish-Russian contacts. A Turkish-Russian working group on trade, investment and regional cooperation also met in Ankara that day, co-chaired by Türkiye's Deputy Trade Minister Mustafa Tuzcu and Russia's Deputy Minister of Economic Development Vladimir Ilyichev.