Erdogan and Putin will have a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the annual summit of BRICS countries — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — hosted in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n
The main topic of the meeting will be Syria. The leaders are also expected to exchange views on the upcoming Tehran summit as part of the Astana process on Syria.<\/p>\n
Speaking at a news conference in Turkey on Wednesday before flying to Johannesburg, Erdogan said: “Developments in Syria, whether in Tal Rifaat or Manbij, are not going as desired.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe only places that are going the desired way are Afrin, Jarabulus, and Al-Bab.”<\/p>\n
Erdogan added that issues in Idlib and Daraa will also be addressed during his meeting with Putin. “Anything can happen in these places, at any time.”<\/p>\n
The leaders\u2019 first face-to-face meeting this year was in early April in Ankara, where they took part in the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant’s groundbreaking ceremony via video conferencing.<\/p>\n
They also attended a tripartite summit on Syria with Turkey and Iran.<\/p>\n
This year Erdogan and Putin have also spoken on the phone 16 times to discuss regional issues, particularly Syria, as well as bilateral relations.<\/p>\nError, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 9)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In South Africa, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Thursday are set to have their second face-to-face meeting this year. Erdogan and Putin will have a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the annual summit of BRICS countries — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — hosted in …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":61401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,118,101,174,194,188,14],"tags":[6134,1153],"class_list":["post-61397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-hot","category-politics","category-turkey-daily","category-turkey-general","category-turkey-politics","category-world","tag-putin","tag-recep-tayyip-erdogan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}