NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg acknowledged that Turkey has paid a high price for regional problems, as he urged the international community to find a sustainable solution to deal with Daesh terrorists held in Syria, APA reports.
Speaking at a joint news conference with Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu in Istanbul, Stoltenberg touched upon the difficult situation Turkey is in.
"Turkey is at the forefront of a very volatile region; no other NATO ally has been exposed to more instability, violence and turmoil from the Middle East as Turkey has," Stoltenberg said.
Stoltenberg arrived in Istanbul to attend a meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, after with a news conference with the foreign minister.
His visit comes as Turkey is carrying out Operation Peace Spring, a cross-border anti-terror operation in northeastern Syria to clear terrorists from its borders.
Turkey launched Operation Peace Spring, the third in a series of cross-border anti-terror operations in northern Syria targeting terrorists affiliated with Daesh and the PKK's Syrian offshoot the People's Protection Units (YPG), on Oct. 9 at 4 p.m.
The operation, conducted in line with the country's right to self-defense borne out of international law and U.N. Security Council resolutions, aims to establish a terror-free safe zone for Syrians return in the area east of the Euphrates River controlled by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is dominated by YPG terrorists.
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