Turkey will initiate its own plans after two weeks if no results come from Turkey-U.S. safe zone deal, the Turkish president said on Wednesday. Recep Tayyip Erdogan's remarks came at a ceremony opening the 2019-2020 academic year for higher education at the Bestepe National Congress and Culture Center in the capital. Referring to an agreement between Turkey and the U.S. on the establishment of a safe zone in northern Syria to enable displaced Syrians to return, Erdogan said: "Two or three million Syrian refugees in Turkey and Europe can be resettled in the safe zone east of Euphrates...
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The leaders of Turkey, Russia and Iran on Monday stressed a strong commitment to Syria's sovereignty in a joint statement following a trilateral meeting on Syria. “The Presidents emphasized their strong commitment to the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic as well as to the purposes and principles of the UN Charter,” read a joint statement released following the trilateral summit on Syria. The statement came after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, and Iran's Hassan Rouhani met in the Turkish capital Ankara for the fifth time to discuss...
The YPG/PYD terrorist organization poses the "biggest" threat to Syria, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in the capital Ankara on Monday. "The PKK, and its extension the YPG/PYD, is the biggest threat to Syria's future. As long as the PKK/PYD presence in the country continues, neither Syria nor our region can find peace," Erdogan told a news conference after a trilateral meeting on Syria with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani. Erdogan said Ankara, Moscow, and Tehran stressed that supporting terrorists under the pretext of fighting Daesh is "unacceptable" -- likely referring...
A trilateral summit in Ankara between Turkey, Russia, and Iran will add new dimensions to the Astana peace process for Syria, the Turkish president said on Monday. "I believe that the Ankara summit will bring a new dimension to Astana process," Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters ahead of a trilateral meeting on Syria with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani. Erdogan said the Astana platform on Syria is a "unique attempt" to find effective solutions for Syria. "We have to take more responsibility to ensure peace in Syria," he added....
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation, who is in Ankara to attend the 5th Trilateral Summit in Astana format, at Çankaya Presidential Palace. President Erdoğan welcomed President Putin of Russia at the entrance of Çankaya Presidential Palace. Following the welcoming, the two leaders posed for the press and proceeded to their bilateral meeting ahead of the Trilateral Summit. https://www.tccb.gov.tr/en/news/542/109634/president-erdogan-meets-with-president-putin-of-russia-
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with President Hassan Rouhani of Iran, who is in Ankara to attend the 5th Trilateral Summit, at Çankaya Presidential Palace. President Erdoğan welcomed President Rouhani of Iran at the entrance of the Çankaya Presidential Palace. Following the welcoming, the two leaders posed for the press and proceeded to their bilateral meeting ahead of the Trilateral Summit. https://www.tccb.gov.tr/en/news/542/109629/president-erdogan-meets-with-president-rouhani-of-iran
EU did not keep promise to spend 6 billion euros to support Turkey's efforts to deal with Syrian migrants, says Erdogan. Ankara will discuss purchasing U.S. Patriot missiles in a meeting between the two countries' leaders later this month, Turkey's president said on Friday. "I said no matter what package of ... S-400s we get, we can buy from you a certain amount of Patriots," President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told the Reuters news agency in an interview in Istanbul. "But I said we have to see conditions that at least match up to the S-400s," added Erdogan. Erdogan had...
The 5th Trilateral Summit in Astana format will be hosted by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Ankara on September 16, 2019 with the participation of President Hassan Rouhani of Iran and President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation. The Summit is aimed at assessing the developments in Syria, Idlib in particular as well as ending the climate of conflict, ensuring the necessary conditions for the voluntary return of refugees and discussing the joint step to be taken in the period ahead with the aim of achieving a lasting political solution. During the bilateral talks President Erdoğan will hold with his...
Answering reporters’ questions after performing the Friday prayer in Istanbul, President Erdoğan said that Turkey’s fight against terror will be determinedly continued, and added: “I believe that in the end, the Republic of Turkey, together with its military, police, gendarmerie and security forces, will come out victorious.” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan answered reporters’ questions on his way out of the Bezmialem Sultan Mosque in Istanbul, where he performed the Friday prayer. Answering a question on the terror attack in the Kulp district of Diyarbakır, President Erdoğan said that Turkey’s fight against terror will be...