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Erdogan holds phone conversation with Putin over Syria

Xinhua, November 26, 2016 Adjust font size:

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan talked with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin over phone on Friday, one day after four Turkish soldiers were killed in an alleged Syrian airstrike, state-run Anadolu Agency reported.

The two leaders exchanged views on the attack, while also agreeing to speed up efforts to find a solution to the humanitarian crisis in Syria's Aleppo, the report said.

Erdogan said "Turkey respected Syria's territorial integrity" with the Euphrates Shield operation in northern Syria, which was launched in August by Ankara.

They also vowed to continue to boost the normalization process between Turkey and Russia.

Erdogan and Putin also talked on Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim's upcoming visit to Moscow on Dec. 6 and the High-Level Russian-Turkish Cooperation Council's meeting, which will be held in the first half of 2017.

Thursday's incident prompted initial suspicions of an attempt to bring Turkey and Russia face to face again in Syria amid the first anniversary of Turkey's downing of a Russian jet along the border with Syria, the report said. Endit