Erdogan was ready to meet with Assad at SCO summit

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was ready to meet with the Syrian leader Bashar Assad at the Shanghai Cooperation Summit. This was announced by the Columnist of the newspaper Hürriyet Abdulkadir Selvi.

“I would like Assad to come to Uzbekistan, I would meet him, but he cannot come. Syria will be divided because of him and because of his behavior. He fought with the opposition to protect his power. It is a pity that he will not be able to come to Uzbekistan. I would meet him and say these things in the face, ”the journalist as saying the words of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which he said earlier at a meeting with the one -party members.

According to the journalist, the Turkish leader does not have the goal of “defeating Assad” in Syria. Columonist believes that a new era has “come in Turkish-Syrian relations, because the words of the president of Turkey can be regarded as” start in the issue of restoring relations. “