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Turkish FM Mevlut Cavusoglu rejected earlier reports that he
would meet his Syrian counterpart Faisal Mekdad later this month.
He said in a live broadcast on Thursday that the meeting can take
place early in February, Trend reports citing Daily Sabah.
Cavusoglu said there was no set date for the meeting but it
would be held “as soon as possible.”
A senior Turkish official told Reuters on Wednesday that a
meeting could be scheduled before the middle of next week, but
Cavusoglu said it would not happen that soon. “We have said before
that there were some propositions for a date for next week but that
they did not suit us. It could be in the beginning of February, we
are working on a date,” he said.
The Turkish and Syrian defense ministers held landmark talks in
Moscow last month to discuss border security and other issues. Last
week, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he may meet Assad after a
trilateral foreign ministerial meeting.
The conflict in Syria, which has killed hundreds of thousands of
people, displaced millions and drawn in regional and world powers,
has ground on into a second decade, although fighting has mellowed
down.
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