Turkey wants to organize a small meeting on Syria after a highly anticipated summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on July 16, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said, calling on all relevant international actors to exert efforts to create conditions to hold healthy polls in the war-torn country. “Trump and Putin will meet in Helsinki on Monday [July 16]. It’s a very, very important meeting. We will follow what kind of agreements and disagreements will come out of this meeting. I am planning to hold a phone conversation with Mr. Putin on Saturday [July 14] and will suggest to him to hold a small meeting in Turkey,” Erdoğan told reporters travelling with him on his return from Brussels where he attended a NATO summit on July 13.
