The presidents of Russia and Turkey Vladimir Putin and Tayyip Erdogan have the opportunity to hold a dialogue in connection with the aggravation of the situation in the Syrian Idlib, said the foreign Minister of Turkey Mevlut Cavusoglu.
"in the negotiations with the Russian side We have still not reached the point where you want to be. Maybe our leaders will hold a dialogue. The citizens gave us their cards, We gave them their own, showing the location of all our observation points. We exchanged ideas, contacts will continue. Attack the Syrian regime must be stopped ", - said the Chairman of the TV channel TRT.
He added that the Syrian army attack in Idlib detrimental to the Astana process on the Syrian settlement. According to his statement, the danger for the Russian military in the Syrian Arab Republic from radical groups in Idlib no
Turkey's leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan said before that he tried to convince his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to exert pressure on the President of the Syrian Republic Assad to the Syrian army stopped its advance in Idlib and moved to the end of February from Turkish observation posts, threatening otherwise military response.
In accordance with the agreement reached in may 2017 at the talks in Astana (now Nur-Sultan) by the representatives of Russia, Iran and Turkey, in the Syrian Arab Republic was established four zones of de-escalation. The three of them in 2018 under the supervision of Damascus. The fourth area located in the district of Idlib and parts of neighboring provinces of Latakia, Hama and Aleppo, remain beyond the government of the Republic. A large part of the captured terrorists of the banned in Russia, the group "Dzhebhat EN-Nusra" *. In September 2018, the Russian Federation and Turkey have agreed in Sochi on the creation of a demilitarized zone in Idlib, where more than a dozen different groups.
* Banned in the Russian Federation terrorist group.
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