Presidents Bashar Al-Assad of Syria and Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkiye may hold a meeting in the presence of their Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, after the work on a roadmap for the normalisation of Syrian-Turkish relations is completed, Russian presidential envoy for the Syrian settlement, Alexander Lavrentiev, said yesterday. Lavrentiev said that there are specific issues which stand in the way of normalising relations between Ankara and Damascus, including the Turkish military presence in Syria. He explained the normalisation process between the two nations is developing on a monthly basis. “At first it was a meeting at the level of experts, then a tripartite meeting at the level of defence ministers. Then at the level of foreign ministers who assigned deputy … Continue reading Russia’s presidential envoy to Syria: Erdogan, Assad to meet soon