Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan had expressed his desire to meet with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad if the Syrian leader participated in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting in Uzbekistan, according to today’s publication of the pro-government newspaper Hurriyet. But, as the Turkish president noted, Assad did not attend this meeting. Ahead of the report, four imgs told Reuters that the Turkish intelligence chief had held multiple meetings with his Syrian counterpart in Damascus in recent weeks, a sign of Russian efforts to warm relations between the countries that support opposing sides in the Syrian war. . Hurriyet columnist Abdulkadir Selvi wrote that Erdogan made the comments about Assad at a closed-door meeting of the ruling AKP party on Monday. “I wish Assad had come to Uzbekistan, I would have talked to him. But he can’t go there,” Erdogan was quoted as saying, according to Selvi […]
Source: News Beast
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