The issue of organizing contacts between representatives of Turkey and Syria is on Russia's agenda. This is how the spokesman of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov commented on the reports in the media about a planned meeting between the presidents of Turkey and Syria, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Bashar Assad, in Moscow, TASS reported, quoted by BTA.
A Turkish newspaper close to the ruling party reported yesterday, citing an unnamed source, that Erdogan and Assad are expected to meet in August in Moscow for the first time in seven years. This news was later denied by Turkish diplomatic sources.
On his way back from a NATO summit earlier this month, Erdogan said he had sent Assad an invitation to a meeting that had been received positively. The Syrian president, in turn, said he would meet Erdogan as long as the content of the talks covered the main issues, which he said were Ankara's support for “terrorism” and the withdrawal of Turkish forces from Syrian territories.
"The issue of facilitating the organization of certain contacts between Turkish and Syrian representatives at different levels is indeed on the agenda,” the Kremlin spokesman said today. "Now I can't say anything more specific," added Peskov.