ISTANBUL. BACK TO THE FUTURE, 2022. ANATOL LIEVEN.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 16 May 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:26.8 | This is CBS Eye on the World. |
| 0:28.5 | Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:31.6 | All eyes on Turkey. |
| 0:34.4 | I welcome Anatole Levin of the Quincy Institute |
| 0:36.9 | for Responsible Statecraft writing momentarily about Turkey. I welcome Anatole Levin of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft writing momentarily |
| 0:39.5 | about Turkey. There's Ankara, there's Antalya, there's Istanbul. The meetings there right now are a way |
| 0:48.7 | forward, perhaps, for the three-year-old Ukraine-Russian conflict. |
| 0:55.6 | We returned to Istanbul for conversations that have not happened between Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin. |
| 1:02.7 | There are advisors and counselors and negotiators present, and that is significant. |
| 1:08.3 | Anatole, a very good day to you. |
| 1:10.5 | In Istanbul, in 2025, I feel like the joke about Back to the Future. |
| 1:17.2 | Weren't we just there in March of 22? |
| 1:19.6 | What's changed? |
| 1:20.6 | Good evening to you. |
| 1:22.2 | Hello, John. |
| 1:23.5 | Well, I mean, what's changed is that about 300,000 people have died. |
| 1:29.7 | A lot of Ukraine has been devastated. |
| 1:34.2 | But in the meantime, I mean, Ukraine has lost additional land. |
| 1:42.6 | But on the other hand, the Russians, you know, have, well, they've also |
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