Many people thought that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's visit had been botched up by his comments on Kashmir on the eve of his visit. He had called for multilateral dialogue on the Kashmir issue and even offered Turkey's help in its resolution in an interview to an Indian TV channel.

Even as Turkey looks East towards the growing economies of China and India, perhaps a message needed to be sent that Ankara's constant anti-India posturing on Kashmir, its promotion of Pakistan and its deliberate equation of Indian membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group with that of Pakistan's is not acceptable to New Delhi..