File image.
An agreement had been reached with Syria and Turkey to hold a meeting between officials from the two countries in Baghdad, Iraq’s Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein announced on July 12.
“There is communication at the level of the Iraqi leadership with the Syrian and Turkish sides, and the date will be determined after returning to Baghdad,” Hussein said in a statement from Washington.
Earlier in the day, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he had instructed Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan to meet with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad “to start restoring relations between the two countries.
Erdogan also said that “Fidan was authorized to organize a meeting with President Assad in a third country,” without elaborating.
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani revealed last May that his government was working on reconciliation between Turkey and Syria, reviving talks which were launched by Russia around two years earlier.
Later in June the talks saw a breakthrough when Assad told Russia’s Syria envoy, Alexander Lavrentyev, that “Syria welcomes” all reconciliation initiatives with Turkey.
In response to the statement, Erdogan said that he was ready to talk to the Syrian president. However, the remarks and a later attack on Syrian refugees in Turkey led to deadly protests in Turkish-controlled parts in northern Syria.
Turkish-Syrian talks reached a halt last year after Damascus insisted that Ankara, a key backer of Syrian rebels, should withdraw all of its forces from the country before any normalization. The two sides have apparently overcome this obstacle.
Serious security issues, like the de-facto state Kurdish forces are trying to establish in northern and eastern Syria with help from the United States and the future of millions of Syrian refugees in Turkey, have apparently encouraged both sides to resume the talks. It is still unclear however if Ankara and Damascus could reach a comprehensive agreement.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
SouthFront: Analysis and Intelligence
NOW hosted at southfront.press
Previously, SouthFront: Analysis and Intelligence was at southfront.org.
The .org domain name had been blocked by the US (NATO) (https://southfront.press/southfront-org-blocked-by-u-s-controlled-global-internet-supervisor/) globally, outlawed and without any explanation
Back before that, from 2013 to 2015, SouthFront: Analysis and Intelligence was at southfront.com
i ony meet potato
turkey, jordan, the saudis and egypt have a lot to make good on their own ethnic, the muslims in the middle east and north africa, but they’ve to wait ’til china throws entire strike groups into the south china sea on a months basis. when this point arises, the colonials will pay for what they’ve done to mankind.
people are warning, but erdogan does not understand. eventually there will be a civil war. turks are tired of arab refugees and erdogan does not understand that if he does not send arab refugees, he will not be elected in the next elections.
people are warning, but erdogan does not understand. eventually there will be a civil war. turks are tired of arab refugees and erdogan does not understand that if he does not send arab refugees, he will not be elected in the next elections sikicem arabini o.ç
erdogan and turkey will never be a part of europe and been trying with great humility. they are a middle eastern/ asian and turkey’s prosperity needs sco and bricks. they are what the absolutely must to get in to bricks and expect anytime now they will leave nato; as it’s all but done. the zionist isrealis genocidal maniac problem is the anger of the entire nation and must follow or done.