2 April 2018 - 07:35

Iranian, Russian, Turkish presidents to meet in Ankara

<p style="text-align: left;">Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet on April 4 in Ankara in a summit of the three countries sponsoring a series of Syrian peace talks.

A Turkish TV station relayed that the three presidents will also hold bilateral talks on the sidelines of the summit.

Bilateral relations and regional developments are going to be underspot light in the bilateral meeting between President Rouhani and President Erdogan, Mehr News Agency reported.

A day ahead of the summit, Putin and Erdogan are scheduled to meet in bilateral talks in the Turkish capital as part of the Turkish-Russian High-Level Cooperation Council.

The Kremlin on March 7 announced that the meetings would take place in April but did not specify the exact date or the site of the talks.

Russia, Turkey, and Iran are all deeply involved in the war in Syria and sponsor a series of peace talks in the Kazakh capital, Astana.

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