Acute crisis in Syria’s Idlib demanded our direct talks, Putin says as he meets Erdogan in Moscow

Dozens of Turkish troops

Dozens of Turkish troops died in a Syrian airstrike as no one knew they were there, Putin told Erdogan, stressing the crisis in the Syrian province is so dire that a personal conversation between the two leaders is needed.

Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences to Recep Tayyip Erdogan over the deaths of 34 Turkish troops in last week’s airstrike in Idlib, as the two sat to the closely-watched one-in-one in Moscow.

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