Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has voiced his country’s willingness to cooperate with Moscow and Damascus against Kurdish militant groups based in northern Syria.
“We want to take steps with Syria and Russia, as a trio,” Erdogan was quoted as saying on Dec. 15 by Turkey’s Anadolu Agency.
He also called for a trilateral summit between himself, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
When asked how Moscow viewed Erdogan’s proposal, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said: “Positively.”
Syrian President Bashar Assad, reviews an honor guard at the Syrian Presidential Palace in the capital Damascus, Syria, on July 17, 2021. (Syrian Presidency via Facebook via AP)
“We always welcome bringing relations between sovereign neighbors back to normal,” Bogdanov told Russia’s TASS news agency on Dec. 16….