By Diyar Guldogan
ANKARA (AA) – Turkey does not want new humanitarian crisis to arise in Syria, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday.
“We do not want a new humanitarian crisis and new tragedies to arise neither in Idlib no in other regions of Syria, ” Erdogan told a news conference with his Russian and Iranian counterparts following a trilateral summit on Syria in Russia's coastal city of Sochi.
Erdogan said Turkey will continue to do its part on Idlib deal. He also called on Syrian regime to obey cease-fire agreement.
“Hopes for political solution to Syrian crisis are sprouting as never before, ” he said.
Turkey's concern is to ensure Syria's territorial integrity and clear terror groups from Syria's Manbij, the president stressed.
He hoped that Syrian constitutional committee will be formed “as soon as possible “, so Syrian people can determine their own future.
The president announced that the next round of the trilateral meeting between the leaders of Turkey, Russia and Iran will be held in Turkey in upcoming months.
Erdogan, Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani first met in Sochi in 2017.
Turkey, Russia and Iran are guarantor countries which brokered a cease-fire in Syria in December 2016, leading to the Astana talks, which are running parallel to the Geneva talks.
Syria has been locked in a vicious civil war since early 2011, when the Assad regime cracked down on protesters with unexpected ferocity.
Since then, hundreds of thousands of people are believed to have been killed and millions more displaced by the conflict.
