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Turkish, Russian defense ministers discussed latest developments in the zone of the Peace Spring op and situation in the entire Middle East

10 December 2019 08:12 (UTC +04:00)

The situation in northern Syria was in focus of a telephone conversation between Turkish and Russian defense ministers, Hulusi Akar and Sergey Shoigu, the Turkish ministry of national defense reported on Monday, APA reports

"During their telephone talks, Akar and Shoigu discussed the latest developments in the zone of the [Turkish] Peace Spring operation as part of the Sochi memorandum, the situation in Idlib and other issues of defense and security," the ministry said.

The Russian defense ministry confirmed that the two ministers had had telephone talks, adding that the situation in the entire Middle East region had been among the topics of discussion.