Turkey, preparing summit with Iran, Russia and Syria

ANKARA - A delegation from Ankara will visit Moscow next week and have technical talks to prepare for a meeting between the foreign ministers of Russia, Turkey, Iran and Syria. This was announced by the Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, during a joint press conference with the Iranian counterpart, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, in Ankara, during which it was announced that the Iranian president, Ebrahim Raisi, "will soon come to Turkey " to meet his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan. in recent months Erdogan had said he was willing to meet his Syrian counterpart Bashar al Assad with whom he broke off relations after the conflict against terrorism began in Syria in 2011. The Turkish leader had announced that the meeting with Assad would be scheduled only after a meeting between the foreign ministers of Russia, Turkey and Syria. The summit between the diplomatic chiefs of Ankara, Damascus and Moscow had already been announced in January but was never officially scheduled.