Ankara and Moscow have made impressive progress recently on some tricky diplomatic issues. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met May 3 in the Russian resort of Sochi to discuss energy, weapons, tariffs, sanctions and the complexities of the Syrian civil war — even agreeing to set up de-escalation zones there.
But they can't seem to find their way past the "tomato crisis." Clearly, the symbolic tomato — while important — isn't really the problem.