Erdogan voiced concern over ceasefire violations in the past two weeks by forces of the Bashar al-Assad regime in the Idlib de-escalation zone, Turkey\u2019s Presidential Communications Director Fahrettin Altun said on Twitter.<\/p>\n
Erdogan also noted that targeting civilians, schools and hospitals could not be considered fighting against terrorism.<\/p>\n
He stressed that the Assad regime aimed to sabotage Turkish-Russian cooperation in Idlib and to harm the spirit of the Astana agreement, noting that rising tensions in the region would jeopardize the formation of a Constitutional Committee in Syria and the political process.<\/p>\n
While the two leaders reaffirmed their commitment to the Sochi Agreement, Erdogan said the attacks would harm their mutual goals.<\/p>\n
Erdogan and Putin agreed last September to turn Idlib into a de-escalation zone in which acts of aggression would be strictly prohibited.<\/p>\n
Syria has only just begun to emerge from a devastating conflict that began in 2011 when the Assad regime cracked down on demonstrators with unexpected severity.<\/p>\n
On the government crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Erdogan said it was essential for the region to increase its cooperation with international organizations for peace and stability.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed the latest developments in Idlib, Syria in a phone call Monday with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Erdogan voiced concern over ceasefire violations in the past two weeks by forces of the Bashar al-Assad regime in the Idlib de-escalation zone, Turkey\u2019s Presidential Communications Director Fahrettin Altun said on Twitter. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":63741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,17,118,103,101,174,194],"tags":[77689,2125,599,11764,9002,9120],"class_list":["post-63740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-europe","category-hot","category-only-on-nationalturk","category-politics","category-turkey-daily","category-turkey-general","tag-idlib","tag-prime-minister-recep-tayyip-erdogan","tag-russia","tag-russian","tag-syria","tag-turkish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63740","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=63740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}