Turkey-Syria summit postponed at last minute as Russia nudges rivals to reconcile
The two countries' deputy foreign ministers plus those of Russia and Iran had been due to meet to discuss further rapprochement efforts.
ISTANBUL — A planned meeting of senior Turkish, Russian, Syrian and Iranian diplomats was reportedly postponed Thursday following a series of talks aimed at resetting in ties between Ankara and Damascus.
The deputy foreign ministers of the four countries most deeply involved in the Syrian civil war had been due to talk in Moscow on Wednesday and Thursday but the meeting was deferred to an unspecified date for technical reasons, according to Reuters.
The meeting was supposedly to pave the way for a higher-level meeting of foreign ministers following a breakthrough meeting of the Syrian and Turkish defense ministers in December.
Syria’s Deputy Foreign Minister Ayman Sousan, however, was quoted by Syrian pro-government media outlets as saying that the Moscow meeting was “still under discussion.”
