The Turkish military launched the cross-border Operation Euphrates Shield on August 24 along with the US-led coalition in Syria’s northern border city of Jarablus to clear the area from the IS.
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Both leaders agreed to intensify efforts to this end, it added.
Earlier this week, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkey was ready to take part in a joint operation to liberate the embattled Syrian city.
Turkey and Russian Federation remain on the two opposite ends of the Syrian conflict, with Moscow backing Assad and Ankara supporting the opposition fighting for his ouster.
The sides discussed the bilateral relations, as well as the recent developments in Syria.
And Carter noted: “We have our differences, serious differences, with Russian Federation elsewhere, especially here in Europe with Ukraine and elsewhere Russian Federation has been acting in an aggressive manner”.
Turkish forces and the Syrian Kurdish YPG have exchanged fire across the border between Turkey and Syria today, according to military officials.
Militants from various armed groups are confronting the Syrian government troops.
The government advance further seals off Aleppo’s opposition-held eastern districts.
“Rebels are now back to square one, under an even more ruthless siege”, Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the observatory, told AFP.
In London on Wednesday, the Syria opposition, under pressure, fleshed out a proposal for a transition to democracy without Assad after a six-month negotiating phase with the regime.
The plan calls for an 18-month transitional period, during which the country would be led by an interim government comprised of current government representatives along with opposition figures and representatives of civil society.
“The most unsafe scenario for Turkey involves a war with the Kurds”.
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Erdogan said he had agreed with Obama to do “what is necessary”.
