Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan confirmed Thursday that he could hold a meeting with his Syrian counterpart, Bashar al-Assad, as part of a rapprochement after more than eleven years of tensions due to the war in the Arab country.
«We have started a process with Russia and Syria,» said Erdogan, who revealed that there will be a meeting between the foreign ministers of Turkey, Russia and Syria. «Then we will meet the leaders, depending on how the process goes,» he said, as reported by the Turkish state news agency Anatolia.
The Turkish president’s remarks come days after a meeting between the defense ministers of Syria, Russia and Turkey to address the security situation, the first of its kind since the Syrian war broke out in 2011.
The meeting took place in Moscow to address the Syrian crisis, in a sign of a possible rapprochement between Ankara and Damascus, whose bilateral relations have been strained by the conflict and Turkey’s support for various rebel groups.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
