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Turkey says it has no preconditions for dialogue with Syria
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ANKARA, 24 August 2022, (TON): Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said “Turkey does not have preconditions for dialogue with the Syrian government and talks should be goal-oriented.”
Turkey has backed rebels fighting to topple Syria’s President Bashar Assad, and cut diplomatic relations with Damascus early in the 11-year conflict.
But Russian intervention has helped Assad’s government drive the rebels back to a pocket of northwest Syria.
Erdogan said after talks in Russia earlier this month that President Vladimir Putin had suggested Turkey cooperate with the Syrian government to tackle violence along their joint border.
Erdogan has warned that Turkey could launch another military incursion into northern Syria targeting Syria Kurdish fighters, to extend a ‘safe zone’ where Ankara says some of the 3.6 million Syrian refugees which it currently hosts could return.
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