The head of the defense Ministry of Turkey, Hulusi Akar, said that Turkey conducts dialogues with Russia on the transfer of 18 prisoners of war Syrian army, told a television channel TRT. Other Details are not given. The situation in Northern Syria escalated in early October, when Turkey started an operation " Source of peace ", directed against Kurdish groups. The seventeenth in coordination with the United States Ankara suspended the fighting, the Kurds would withdraw its the creation of a 30-kilometer buffer zone on the border. last week the presidents of Russia and Turkey Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan held a six-hour dialogue, the results of which signed a Memorandum of ten points. The document provides input on the Syrian side of the border with Turkey, outside the zone of operation "Source of peace" offices of the Russian military police and Syrian border guards. They will facilitate the withdrawal of the Kurdish troops and their weapons and 30 kilometers from the Syrian-Turkish border, as well as carry out together with the Turks patrol. On Tuesday, Russian defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on the early withdrawal of the Kurds from the security zone in the Syrian Arab Republic. Later was started reconnaissance flights and mine clearing on the routes of the Turkish-Russian observation. <span style="color:darkgray