Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will pay a one-day working visit to Russia's Sochi to discuss Syria with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin
Presidents Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin to meet on Tuesday in Russia's coastal city of Sochi.
On October 17, a US delegation headed by Vice President Mike Pence paid a working visit to the capital Ankara, where they met Erdogan and discussed Turkey's anti-terror operation. Following the meeting, the two sides reached a 13-article agreement on northeast Syria. The US-backed the YPG-dominated SDF militia in the battle Daesh terror group’s last territory in Syria. In its 30-year terror campaign against the Turkish state more than 40,000 people, including women and children, have been killed. Amid the operation, Ankara is also keeping its high-level contacts with Russia and Iran which are trying to find a solution to the Syrian conflict.
During a trilateral meeting in Ankara on September 16, Erdogan, Putin and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani reaffirmed their readiness to facilitate the launching of the Syrian Constitutional Committee, which will meet on October 30 in Geneva.
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