“Turkey has legitimate concerns, which we certainly take into account. But it is very important not to allow any action that could destabilize the situation in Syria,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said shortly before the Putin-Erdogan meeting.
The Kremlin invited Ankara not “destabilize” Syria conducting there a new military operationahead of talks to be held today in Russia between the presidents of Russia Vladimir Putin and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
“Turkey has legitimate concerns, which we certainly take into account. But it is very important not to allow any action that could destabilize the situation in SyriaKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
This subject “will certainly be the subject of the talks” that Putin and Erdogan will have today in the resort of Sochi in southern Russia, Peskov added.
The Turkish president has been threatening for months to launch a new military operation in northern Syria to push back Kurdish fighters, whom Ankara calls “terrorists”.
Turkey considers its security threatened by the presence on its borders of these fighters from the People’s Protection Units (YPG), the Syrian Kurdish militia that Ankara claims is an extension of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), an organization that has been labeled “terrorist” by Ankara, the US and the EU.
During a summit last month in Tehran, Putin had already expressed to Erdogan his opposition to a new Turkish invasion.
During their meeting today, the two presidents will also discuss Ukraine, where Moscow has been waging a military offensive since February.
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