Turkey's ultra-ambitious President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is thinking big - of turning Ankara into a key player to end the global food crisis by engaging with both Russia and Ukraine.

Turkey, which has for the past few months trumpeted of being "the only country that maintains close relations with both of the warring parties" north of Black Sea, is now looking at playing host to a United Nations "Control Centre" in Istanbul which could play an important role in defusing the Russia-Ukraine crisis.

In back-to-back calls to his Russian and Ukrainian counterparts Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday, Erdogan insisted that Ankara has thus far made every effort for the continuation of the negotiations between Ukraine and Russia.

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