"The heads of the defense departments of Russia and Turkey discussed the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and exchanged views on stabilizing the situation in Syria," TASS reports.

Earlier, Russian and Turkish leaders Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed the situation in Karabakh by telephone.

Erdogan called the agreement reached on the eve of a ceasefire in Karabakh "the right step towards a permanent settlement of the situation."

On the night of November 10, Putin, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan signed a statement on a ceasefire in Karabakh. 

The maintenance of peace in the region along the line of contact will be controlled by Russian peacekeepers.