Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke by telephone with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and told him that the Syrian regime's attacks on Idlib "constitute a real threat" to Turkey's national security, Al-Jazeera correspondent reported, citing diplomatic sources in the Turkish presidency. that.
Erdogan said that the Syrian regime's attacks and breaches of the ceasefire in Idlib opened the way for a major humanitarian crisis, and that these attacks seriously damage efforts to find a solution to the Syrian crisis.
On the same subject, the Kremlin said that Putin and Erdogan stressed the need to intensify efforts to neutralize what he (the Kremlin) called the terrorist threat coming from Idlib.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said in Beirut on Friday that his soldiers would not leave the encircled observation post south of Idlib, shortly after Syrian regime forces took control of the area.
"We are not there because we cannot leave but we do not want to leave," Gavishoglu told reporters at the Foreign Ministry on the sidelines of his visit to Lebanon, denying that Turkish troops in the town of Murk were "isolated".
Mork has the largest Turkish observation post, one of 12 that Ankara has deployed under agreements with Moscow and Tehran, Damascus' allies.
Al-Jazeera correspondent reported that the Syrian regime forces took control of the city of Khan Sheikhoun in the southern countryside of Idlib on Friday, besieging the northern countryside of Hama and the city of Mork.