Russian President Vladimir Putin has held a telephone conversation with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan to discuss the situation in Syria. Special emphasis was placed on ways of enhancing Astana format cooperation, the Kremlin’s press-service said. “In discussing the situation in Syria special attention was paid to ways of ...
The Turkish foreign minister has commented on recent reports made by Syrian state TV that pro-Syrian government forces would enter Syria’s Afrin “within hours.” “We have started an operation in Afrin in order to get rid of the threat to our national security. We still insist on this,” Turkish Foreign ...