Erdoğan, Putin agree to push for Aleppo cease-fire

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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on Sept. 8 agreed to intensify efforts to convince warring parties in Syria on a cease-fire in Aleppo, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.
The two leaders discussed Turkish-Russia bilateral relations as well as the latest developments in Syria during a telephone call, according to a presidential source.

Erdoğan stressed the importance of implementing a cease-fire as soon as possible in the rebel-held northern city that is under a devastating siege.

The pair also discussed Operation Euphrates Shield launched late last month by Turkey and agreed on the importance of eliminating Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and other terror groups along the Turkish border -- the stated goal of the operation in northern Syria.

Erdoğan said the original residents of Jarablus and al-Rai have already begun to return from Turkey.

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/er...fire.aspx?pageID=238&nID=103744&NewsCatID=352

 

[maximuswarrior]

The Americans are checkmated. They have become irrelevant in Syria and elsewhere. Putin is calling the shots.

 

[CrimsonFury]

finally Ankara is using its brains and cooperating multilaterally rather than handing all of its national interests in Syria into the tender hands of Washington....wish they'd have come to this conclusion in 2012