In the panel; Dr. Coşkun Kumru made a presentation about the first contacts of the Russians with the Turks and their relations with the Turkish khanates. Dr. Kamuran Şimşek gave information about when the first diplomatic relations between the Ottomans and the Russians started and explained the political, social and economic relations between the two states from the 15th century to the 19th century. Assoc. Dr. Durmuş Akalın, on the other hand, gave information about the historical course of Turkish-Russian relations in the Black Sea, Mediterranean and Archipelago from the 19th century to the First World War.