Turkey refused to become a guarantor of Ukraine's security without explanation

Turkey does not yet agree with Ukraine's demand to provide it with security guarantees on the model of Article 5 of the NATO treaty, said Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu. First, you need to specify Kyiv's request, he explained in an interview with CNN Turk.

“There can be no guarantees until it is clear what these guarantees are. [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelenskiy said he needed a clause similar to Article 5 of the NATO treaty. No country accepted this proposal. The US , UK and CANADA do not accept this either. Of course, Turkey does not accept this either. In principle, no one opposes such guarantees. But their terms are not clear. Nobody agrees with Zelensky's request," the TV channel quoted him as saying.

Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty states that an attack on one state of an alliance member is tantamount to an attack on all countries of the alliance.

The fact that Ukraine expects to receive such guarantees, Kyiv announced following the results of Russian-Ukrainian talks in Istanbul on March 29. The HEAD of the Kyiv delegation, David Arakhamia, then said that Ukraine insisted on concluding an “international treaty that would be signed and ratified by all guarantors so as not to repeat the mistakes of the Budapest Memorandum.” This memorandum guaranteed Ukraine's security in exchange for its renunciation of nuclear weapons.

Arakhamia specified that permanent members of the UN Security Council, including Russia , as well as Turkey, Germany, Italy, Israel, Poland and Canada, can become guarantors of the new system. Among the countries that expressed their readiness to become guarantors for Ukraine were Germany, Italy, France, Great Britain. Russia also offered Belarus as a guarantor to Kyiv.

Zelensky argued that the United Kingdom, the United States, Italy and Turkey expressed their readiness to become guarantors of Ukraine's security. He named these countries among those states that agreed to negotiate security guarantees for Kyiv. “This meeting will definitely take place, because it was confirmed by representatives of the future guarantor states, this applies to the United States, Great Britain, Turkey, Poland, Germany, France, Israel,” he said. Zelensky emphasized that this is not the entire list, but only those countries “that are already ready to come and discuss the list of security guarantees.”