'I will ask Putin to resume this path' - Erdogan seeks restart of stalled Black Sea grain corridor

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan revealed on Sunday that he is working to restore the grain corridor that had transported Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea under an agreement brokered in Turkey, before it faltered.

"Last week I had a meeting with Mr Zelensky in Ankara. And tomorrow, as I mentioned, we will also have a phone call with Mr Putin. After these talks, you know we have well-known efforts regarding the grain corridor," stated the Turkish leader during a press conference held on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa.

He remarked, "Our efforts related to the grain corridor were essentially aimed at opening the path toward peace. Through the grain corridor, we wanted to deliver grain to both Europe and Africa. Unfortunately, we succeeded to a certain extent."

"In the conversation we will have tomorrow, I will again ask Mr Putin to resume this path," Erdogan added.

In July 2022, the United Nations, Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine signed an agreement in Istanbul, known as the 'Black Sea Grain Corridor', aimed at reducing the impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on global food prices, particularly grains.

The agreement stalled a year after it began due to disputes between Russia on one side and Ukraine and its Western supporters on the other.

Moscow launched a military offensive in Ukraine in late February 2022 after recognising the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), claiming that Kiev had failed to guarantee their special status under the 2014 Minsk Agreements, and urging Ukraine to declare itself officially neutral and give assurances that it would never join NATO.

Kiev denounced the Russian action as an invasion. Zelensky imposed martial law throughout the country, announcing a general mobilisation, while the EU and the US imposed several rounds of sanctions on Moscow.

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