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Russia and Turkey begin patrols inside demilitarized zone in northern Syria
2019-03-10
[ALMASDARNEWS] Ottoman Turkish and Russian servicemen began on Friday patrolling the Idlib de-escalation zone in northwest Syria, Ottoman Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said.

"Today, Russia will begin patrols in the border area outside of Idlib while Ottoman Turkish Armed Forces patrols will start in the demilitarized zone," Akar said to the Anadolu news agency.

Akar said any Ottoman Turkish contacts with the Syrian government were "out of the question." He added Ankara, which supports Syrian opposition, had been in talks with Russia and occasionally Iran on the matter of the Syrian peace.

Last September, Russian President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
and his Ottoman Turkish counterpart, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
, agreed to set up a demilitarized zone in Idlib along the contact line between armed opposition groups and Syrian government forces, while the Russian and Ottoman Turkish defence ministers signed a memorandum on stabilising the situation in the Idlib de-escalation zone.

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