Quadrilateral summit on Syria to be held in Istanbul
Turkey will host a Syria summit with the leaders of Russia, Germany and France on October 27 in Istanbul, Presidential Spokesperson İbrahim Kalın said Friday.
- Middle East
- Anadolu Agency
- Published Date: 12:00 | 19 October 2018
- Modified Date: 12:01 | 19 October 2018
A quadrilateral summit on Syria between Turkey, Russia, Germany and France will be held in Istanbul on Oct. 27, Turkish presidential spokesman İbrahim Kalın said on Friday.
The meeting, which will be hosted by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, will see the participation of Russian President Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron.
"The summit will aim to address the Syrian conflict with all its aspects, focusing on the situation on the ground, the Idlib agreement and the political process, and to harmonize joint efforts for finding a lasting solution to the conflict," Kalın said in a statement.
Turkey hosts 3.5 million Syrian refugees, more than any other country in the world. The country has spent more than $32 billion from its own national resources for helping and sheltering refugees since the beginning of the Syrian civil war.
Syria has only just begun to emerge from a devastating conflict that began in 2011 when the Assad regime cracked down on demonstrators with unexpected ferocity. Since then, hundreds of thousands of people are believed to have been killed and millions more displaced by the conflict.