Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan meets with his Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vucic (not pictured) during a visit to Belgrade, Serbia September 7, 2022. REUTERS/Marko Djurica
ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday he wanted grain from Russia to be exported too, adding Vladimir Putin was right to complain that grain from Ukraine under a U.N.-backed deal was going to wealthy rather than poor countries.
The grain-export agreement aimed to avert a global food crisis by guaranteeing the safe passage of ships in and out of Ukrainian ports, allowing them to export tens of millions of tonnes of grain that had been blockaded by Russia's invasion.
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