Erdogan to invite Assad for talks to restore Turkey-Syria ties
ISTANBUL - Turkey will extend an invitation to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad"any time" for possible talks to restore relations between the two neighbours, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday.
Turkey severed ties with Syria in 2011 after the outbreak of the Syrian civil war, in which it supported rebels looking to oust Assad. Speaking to reporters on his flight back from Berlin, Erdogan also said Ankara would reciprocate any positive steps from Damascus, and that Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Iraqi Prime Minister could contribute to facilitating the contact.
"Putin and the Iraqi prime minister have an approach for talks to be in Turkey. We are talking about mediation everywhere, why not with our neighbour?" he was quoted as saying by the Turkish presidency.Syrian officials however have repeatedly said that any normalization in ties can only come after Turkey agrees to pull out thousands of troops from the rebel-held northwest.
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