At a joint news conference Friday, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, said the two neighboring nations also meant to boost trade ties.
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“We welcome any signs of greater global unity against ISIL”, Farhan Haq said during a daily briefing in response to a question about the recent thawing of Turkey-Russia ties. Turkey has complained of a lack of solidarity from Western allies who have raised concerns over Turkey’s massive crackdown on alleged supporters of a movement led by US -based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen.
Khaled Harah, a first responder in the rebel-held part of Aleppo, said a government helicopter dropped four barrel bombs on the neighborhood of Zabadieh and that one of them released chlorine gas, leading to the deaths of a mother and her two children.
Gulen, who has lived in self-imposed exile in the United States for years, denies any part in the putsch.
Erdogan demands the cleric be extradited to Turkey, saying Washington must chose between Turkey and Gulen, in a case that has strained Ankara’s relations with Washington. Zarif is on an official visit to Turkey.
Asked of the US position regarding reports allegedly Turkey looked to expand its non-NATO defensive security cooperation, agency spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau said interoperability was a fundamental tenet of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. Speaking in Geneva, he said that Russian Federation has agreed to hold talks with United Nations officials to hammer out a “workable” plan for a humanitarian pause in Aleppo fighting.
“Everything is out in the open”. “Everyone in the world knows who is behind this coup attempt”, Cavusoglu said. “We have an extradition agreement”, he said. “We are seeing signs of USA cooperation”.
Turkey had temporarily suspended its limited participation in the airstrikes campaign by the US -led coalition, following soured relations with Moscow after Turkish air force jets downed a Russian warplane on the Syrian border in November.
Isik said a decree would soon be ready to order the recruitment of new air force pilots following the purge.
Rear Admiral Mustafa Zeki Ugurlu working on a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation base in Virginia had sought asylum in the USA after he was dismissed from the armed forces for links to the putsch bid, according to state-run news agency Anadolu earlier this week.
“Our priority in this decree is the 265 pilots who have been dismissed”.
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The accusations came hours after the Russian military, which is fighting alongside Syrian government forces in the civil war, promised a daily, three-hour cease-fire for Aleppo to allow humanitarian aid in to besieged areas.
