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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday he plans to invite Syrian dictator Bashar Assad to visit Ankara and mend relations that were strained by Turkey’s support for rebel groups during the long and bloody Syrian civil war.
“We have now arrived at a point where if Bashar Assad takes a step towards improving relations with Turkey, we will also show that approach towards him,” the Turkish president said, hinting that he expects Assad to make some sort of opening move. Russian President Vladimir Putin in Astana, Kazakhstan, on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit last Wednesday. Putin wasTurkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan that Russia would love to have a “peace platform” somewhere, and Turkey would be as good a host as any.
Erdogan and Assad have been doing a weird little dance around getting together and patching up their differences ever since the beginning of this year, with each of the authoritarian leaders urging the other to make the first move. Erdogan beganhe was “open” to mending ties with Turkey, provided the Turkish government adopts Syria’s views on “sovereignty, territorial integrity in its entirety, the fight against terrorism, and terrorist organization.
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