Turkey To Deploy Troops To Syria's Idlib As Part Of Agreement With Russia - Minister

Turkey to Deploy Troops to Syria's Idlib As Part of Agreement With Russia - Minister

Turkey intends to deploy an additional military contingent to Syria's Idlib as part of the agreement with Russia on a demilitarized zone in the Syrian region, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Tuesday.

ANKARA (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 18th September, 2018) Turkey intends to deploy an additional military contingent to Syria's Idlib as part of the agreement with Russia on a demilitarized zone in the Syrian region, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Tuesday.

Russian and Turkish leaders Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday agreed in Sochi to create by October 15 a demilitarized zone along the contact line of the armed opposition and government troops in the Syrian province of Idlib, and the defense ministers of the two countries signed a memorandum on stabilizing the situation in the Idlib de-escalation zone.

"Terrorist groups will leave, heavy weapons will be withdrawn, civilians and moderate opposition with a small amount of light weapons will remain. Turkey and Russia will jointly control this process. We will need to deploy additional military troops to Idlib," Cavusoglu told reporters.