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Baku, Azerbaijan, Sept. 26
By Rufiz Hafizoglu - Trend:
Armed groups leave Syrian Idlib, Turkish media reported citing President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Turkey and Russia has signed an agreement on the settlement of the situation in Idlib, which will positively affect the region, the Turkish president said.
Regarding the settlement of the Syrian crisis as a whole, Erdogan said that Turkey is against the fact that Bashar al-Assad remains in power.
"A person who is guilty of the death of hundreds of thousands of people can not be in power," Erdogan said.
He also noted that because of Assad 3,5 million Syrian refugees are already in Turkey.
On September 15 in Sochi, Russian and Turkish leaders - Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed 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.
The defense ministers of the two countries signed a memorandum on stabilizing the situation in Idlib zone of de-escalation.
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