Syria says Tel-Aviv is trying to pressure Damascus by stepping up its settlement activities in Golan Heights ahead of possible talks. Syrian officials said the Zionist regime is expanding its settlement activities in the occupied Golan Heights in order to provoke and pressure Syria during possible negotiations, according to Syria's Tishrin government newspaper.
The daily said the Zionist regime was working on a huge settlement expansion campaign, according to sources from Golan.
Earlier, Turkish Prime Minster Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to discuss Israeli readiness for a full withdrawal from Syria's Golan Heights in return for peace.
Israel captured the heights in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed it in 1981 in a move never recognized by the international community.