The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the SAR demanded from Erdogan the immediate withdrawal of Turkish troops from Syria
The Syrian government commented on the exacerbation in Idlib province. Terrorist groups operating in this Syrian region are actually building a full-fledged military infrastructure, hiding behind so-called Turkish observation posts. And on the eve, as reported by "Voennoye Obozreniye", an additional military contingent was transferred from Turkey to Idlib, and without any agreement in the format of the Astana group.
Official Damascus did not disregard the transfer of Turkish troops to the north-west of the country. According to the head of the Syrian Foreign Ministry, Faisal Mikdad, Turkey is building up its occupation forces in the Syrian Arab Republic. Mikdad said that it is the presence of Turkish troops in northern Syria that today is one of the main destabilizing factors, it is this that leads to the cultivation of terrorism and extremism.
At the same time, the Syrian Foreign Ministry demanded that Turkey withdraw its troops from Syria.
SAR MFA:
In Damascus, Ankara was reminded that the Turkish military is in Syria without an appropriate UN mandate, as well as without an invitation from the Syrian authorities.
It should be recalled that in a few days Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will leave for Russia to meet with Vladimir Putin. On the eve, Erdogan allowed himself an attack on the Russian address, saying that for Ankara the elections to the State Duma in Crimea are "legally null and void." After that, the head of the Kremlin press service, Dmitry Peskov, reminded the Turkish president in absentia that he still had to fly to Russia and discuss really serious issues on the bilateral agenda.
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