Why does Erdogan insist on meeting with Assad?
“Syrian President Bashar Assad” has explicitly postponed this matter until after the Turkish presidential election in June next year, regarding the repeated offer and request of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to meet with him, but Erdoğan is pursuing this meeting again and again. has made this proposal.
According to IRNA’s report from Damascus, Erdogan, who traveled to Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan last Thursday to participate in the tripartite meeting between Turkey, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan, told reporters on his return to Ankara that he proposed a tripartite meeting to Russian President Vladimir Putin. between the heads of Turkey, Russia and Syria, and he has also welcomed this proposal, and in this way we will start a series of meetings.
Saying that we want to take a tripartite step between Turkey, Russia and Syria, Erdogan announced that “first, meetings should be held between the intelligence agencies, then the ministers of defense, and then the ministers of foreign affairs (Turkey and Syria)”.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu announced again on December 22 that Ankara is ready to cooperate and talk with Syria in order to cooperate with the Syrian side in the field of fighting terrorism, advancing the Syrian political process, and returning refugees.
He also stated for the umpteenth time that if the Syrian government is serious, we are ready to cooperate and talk with Damascus.
Following this issue, Moscow also welcomed Erdogan’s proposal to hold a meeting between the presidents of Turkey, Syria and Russia.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov announced yesterday (Friday) in an interview with Sputnik news agency that Moscow has a very positive view of the idea of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to hold a meeting between the heads of Turkey, Syria and Russia.
He said that this proposal is very positive and we are currently consulting with our Syrian friends in this regard.
