Hakan Fidan’s Russia trip showed Ankara still sees Moscow as essential to any serious Black Sea, Ukraine and regional security settlement Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan’s trip to Moscow and Kazan earlier this week came at a moment when much of the West, blinded by its own destructive ideology and political course, has all but given up on talking to Russia and still appears to cling to the illusion of inflicting a strategic defeat on the country, and it sent a clear signal that Ankara hasn’