Turkish, Iranian presidents meet in Sochi
- World
- Anadolu Agency
- Published Date: 12:00 | 22 November 2017
- Modified Date: 04:04 | 22 November 2017
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani met Wednesday on the sidelines of a Syria summit in Russia.
The bilateral meeting came before the start of the trilateral summit between the presidents of Turkey, Russia, and Iran at the Rus Sanatorium in the coastal city of Sochi.
The meeting, which is closed to the media, started at 3.50 p.m. local time (1250GMT).
During the trilateral meeting, Erdoğan, Rouhani, and Russia's Vladimir Putin will discuss progress made in the Astana peace talks as well as changes in de-escalation zones across Syria.
Turkey and Russia, together with Iran, are the guarantor countries that brokered a cease-fire in Syria in December 2016, leading to the Astana talks, which are running parallel to the Geneva talks for peace in Syria.
- Tribal sheikh shot dead by gunmen in eastern Yemen
- "Trilateral summit highly important for ending bloodshed, tragedy in Syria", Erdoğan says
- Politicians, war criminals: 10 top figures in the Balkan wars
- Srebrenica women shed tears of joy after Ratko Mladic sentenced to life imprisonment
- The Srebrenica massacre and its legal aftermath