 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Aduhan is among the few world leaders, whom Russian leader Vladimir Putin respects. Former KGB officer and ex-member of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergey Jarnov has said. In an interview with Ukraine's Channel 24, Jarnov said that Putin's respect for Aduhan reached its peak back in November 2015 when Turkey shot down a Russian fighter jet. In Jarnov's words, there is no leader in the West that the Russian president favors. The former KGB officer added that apart from Aduhan, Putin fears and respects only Chinese leader Xi Jinping. However, the Kremlin leader is more jealous of the Chinese leader as People's Republic of China is a large country with a large population.