Vladimir Putin, Hassan Rouhani and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Russia, Turkey, and Iran will hold the next round of talks on Syria on Nov. 28-29 in Kazakhstan, Kazakh foreign minister Kairat Abdrakhmanov said on Monday.
Delegations of the Damascus government and the Syrian opposition are also set to attend, Abdrakhmanov told reporters.
Meeting with the U.S.’ top general, Turkey’s defense minister has voiced Ankara’s objection to U.S. soldiers celebrating a veterans’ holiday with YPG/PKK terrorists in Syria."We reiterated the inappropriateness of the YPG presence here [in northern Syria] as a terrorist [group] which is no different from the PKK and U.S. soldiers spending time and cooperating with them," Hulusi Akar told Anadolu Agency following his meeting early Sunday with Gen. Joseph Dunford, the U.S. joint chiefs of staff chairman.The closed-door, one-hour meeting, on the sidelines of the Halifax International Security Forum in Canada, addressed Nov. 11 photos showing U.S. soldiers stationed in Manbij -- in northern Syria, near the Turkish border -- having a U.S. Veterans Day dinner with YPG/PKK terrorists.Akar said Turkey scolded the U.S. about the "provocative and unacceptable" images of YPG/PKK terrorists having dinner with U.S. soldiers and said he expects this not to be repeated.Akar also said that the U.S. cooperation with the YPG/PKK disturbed Turkey and urged the U.S. to cut these ties as soon as possible."We also pointed out that giving weapons and ammunition to the terrorist YPG by truck and airplanes does not fit with the understanding of [the Turkish-U.S.] alliance," he said.Stressing how the terrorist group YPG has attacked Turkish security forces and caused the deaths of innocent civilians, Akar reiterated his hope that the U.S. will correct their mistake.The YPG is the Syrian offshoot of the PKK, a terrorist group recognized by Turkey, the U.S., and EU, which in its 30-year terror campaign has taken some 40,000 lives.The U.S. has claimed the YPG/PKK is an “ally” in the fight against Daesh, over Turkey’s objections that you cannot use one terrorist group to fight another.Turkey has repeatedly cited evidence that the YPG is no different from the PKK.
Turkish DefMin tells top US general to cut ties with YPG terror group
In the opposition-held town of Syria’s Azaz, the 6500-strong Hamza Brigade of the Free Syrian Army is conducting war exercises and target practices for a possible Turkish-led operation against Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorists in the east of the Euphrates River.FSA Commander Seyf Abu Bakr evaluated the situation and said, “We are preparing for the east of the Euphrates with all our might. As the Free Syrian Army, our goal is to free our citizens east of the Euphrates from terror.”US strikes eastern Syria using banned phosphorus bombs, Russia saysN. Syrian tribes hail Turkey’s anti-YPG/PKK effortsStating that the PKK/YPG terror group persecutes locals and loots their homes in the areas that it occupies, Abu Bakr said: “We will politically and militarily purge those areas too with Turkey’s support.”President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has signaled an impending operation against YPG terrorists east of the river, delivering last month what he said was his "final warning" to those he said endangered Turkey's southern border with Syria.Turkish troops -- backed by the FSA -- liberated large swathes of northwestern Syria from terrorist groups during the Operation Euphrates Shield in 2016, while the Operation Olive Branch dealt a heavy blow to YPG/PKK and Daesh terrorists liberating Syria's Afrin region in early 2018. In its more than 30-year terror campaign against Turkey, the PKK -- listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S. and the EU -- has been responsible for the death of some 40,000 people, including women and children. The YPG is its Syrian branch.
FSA ready to fight PKK/YPG alongside Turkey in east of Euphrates
Attacks by the Syrian regime and pro-regime terrorist groups in Syria’s northwestern Idlib de-escalation zone killed a mother and her child, said an official Saturday.The regime and Iranian-backed terrorist groups have been firing artillery into many villages including Jarjanaz and Al-Tamanah, which are situated inside the de-escalation zone, the parameters of which were laid down in a recent agreement between Turkey and Russia.Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Mustafa Hajj Youssef, director of the White Helmets civil-defense agency, said the attacks also left three civilians injured.Despite the agreement signed on Sept. 17 in the Russian resort city of Sochi, regime forces have continued to target rural areas of Latakia province, southern Idlib, western Aleppo, and northern and western Hama.At least 27 civilians were killed and dozens of others were injured so far after the Sochi deal was signed.In line with the Sochi deal, opposition groups last month withdrew their heavy weaponry from specified regions of Idlib.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 ferocity.Turkey heals barrel bomb wound of young Syrian girlWe will not allow a terror corridor on our southern border: Turkish DefMinRussian ambassador to Finland summoned over GPS disruptionFour PKK/KCK suspects arrested across TurkeyTurkish aid group distributes wheelchairs in Syria
Mother, child killed in Syrian regime attacks in Idlib