Erdogan confirms that he could hold a meeting with Al Assad before the rapprochement between Turkey and Syria

Jan. 5 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, confirmed this Thursday that he could hold a meeting with his Syrian counterpart, Bashar al Assad, as part of a rapprochement after more than eleven years of tensions caused by the war in the Arab country.

“We have started a process with Russia and Syria,” said Erdogan, who has revealed that there will be a meeting between the foreign ministers of Turkey, Russia and Syria. “Then the leaders will meet, depending on how the process goes,” he said, according to the Turkish state news agency, Anatolia.

The words of the Turkish president come days after a meeting between the defense ministers of Syria, Russia and Turkey to address the security situation, the first of its kind since the war in Syria broke out in 2011.

The meeting took place in Moscow to address the Syrian crisis, in a sign of a possible rapprochement between Ankara and Damascus, whose bilateral relations have been strained by the conflict and Turkey’s support for various rebel groups.