Turkey is also a big spender on Russian and Ukrainian wheat with 74 percent of its imports worth $1.6bn coming from those two countries in 2019.
In the crop year of 2021-22, Turkey was the largest buyer of Russian wheat, purchasing 4.5 million metric tonnes as of December 30, 2021. Egypt bought 3.2 million metric tonnes from Russia over the same period.
EDIT: Maybe “dependent” isn’t the right word. I don’t know how hard it would be to substitute grain from elsewhere, and that’s what dependence would entail. But they do buy a lot of it.
Ease sanctions? Absolutely fucking not. Tool.
IIRC Turkey is pretty dependent on grain exports from Ukraine and Russia. That may be a factor.
googles
Overwhelmingly Russia.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/17/infographic-russia-ukraine-and-the-global-wheat-supply-interactive
EDIT: Maybe “dependent” isn’t the right word. I don’t know how hard it would be to substitute grain from elsewhere, and that’s what dependence would entail. But they do buy a lot of it.