Foreign Minster Sergei Lavrov spoke to his Turkish counterpart by telephone.
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The two leaders also discussed “opposition groups or opposition fighters that co-locate themselves for whatever reason with groups like Al-Nusra and Daesh”, he said.
In a relevant development on Wednesday, Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova (seen below), said that Moscow was monitoring Turkey’s offensive in Syria very closely, stressing that no military action must be carried out in a sovereign state without the consent of that country’s legitimate government. On February 27, a US-Russia brokered ceasefire came into force in Syria.
Gazprom meets its Turkish customers.
A Turkish army tank in the border city of Karkamis drives towards Syria.
Meanwhile, spokesman for the Kurds in Syria, Saleh Moslem of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), addressed a conference in Brussels, Belgium this week titled “The Urgent Situation in Northern Syria, Turkish Invasion, Europe’s Security and An Alternative to the Turkey Deal” and explained that Turkey’s attacks are nothing new and that they have “been attacking Rojava and Kurdish interests for years”.
The Turkish government continues to push back against global calls for them to discontinue their attacks on Kurds in the Rojava region of northern Syria (Kurdistan), following their invasion of Syria last week. The first charter flights with Russian tourists will fly to Turkey on September 4-5, Maya Lomidze, executive director of the Association of Tour Operators of Russia, told the TASS news agency on August 29.
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Turkey is said to be among the main supporters of the militant groups active in Syria, with reports saying that Ankara actively trains and arms the Takfiri elements there and facilitates their safe passage into the violence-wracked state.
