Turkey dismissed yesterday Russian accusations that it has flouted de-escalation agreements with Russia and Iran in Syria’s Idlib province and threatened to take military action in the area if diploma
tic efforts with Moscow fail.
Erdogan discussed the situation in separate phone calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday and US President Donald Trump yesterday, but there was no immediate word of a diplomatic breakthrough. Speaking in Istanbul later yesterday, Erdogan again said Turkey would drive back Syrian forces unless they withdrew to the borders outlined by Ankara and Moscow in 2018. But he also appeared to bring forward his end-of-February deadline.
Cavusoglu also had talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Munich yesterday - the first ministerial-level meeting between Ankara and Moscow since the situation deteriorated in Idlib.
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