Leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the events in the Syrian Idlib to apply the word " war ".
Pro-Turkish militants With the support of artillery of the Turkish armed forces broke through on Thursday the defense of the Syrian army in the area of Kinase and Naraba, said before the Russian centre for the reconciliation of the warring parties in the Syrian Arab Republic. Russian su-24 attacked the terrorists had broken through, allowing Syrian troops to successfully repel all attacks. TSPVS tried to convince the Turkish side to stop support of terrorists and the transfer of weapons. The Turkish defense Ministry informed that During an air attack in Idlib have killed two Turkish soldiers and five wounded.
first, Erdogan said that Turkey until not received an unsatisfactory outcome in the negotiations with Russia on the Syrian Idlib and ready for the beginning of hostilities in the region. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov called this the worst scenario.
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.
first Chapter the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergei Lavrov said that Turkey failed to fulfill several key commitments to address issues around the Syrian Idlib. For example, she didn't and the armed opposition that is ready to dialogue with the government during the political process, from terrorists. For his part, Vice-President of Turkey Fuat oktay spoke a statement that, taken on their own shoulders obligations of Idlib, the country has implemented.
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 it captured by terrorists from grouping "dzhebhat an-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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