MOSCOW. Feb 22 (Interfax) - Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) and its State Duma faction, claims that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told him Ankara was going to leave NATO in the future.
"I talked with President Erdogan - he personally told me that Turkey would leave NATO in the future," Zhirinovsky said at a Government Hour hearing at the Duma on Wednesday, which was attended by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.