{"id":61821,"date":"2020-02-13T09:29:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T01:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=61821"},"modified":"2020-02-13T09:29:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T01:29:35","slug":"russian-pres-putin-turkish-counterpart-erdogan-discuss-syrias-idlib-by-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=61821","title":{"rendered":"Russian Pres Putin, Turkish counterpart Erdogan discuss Syria\u2019s Idlib by phone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/per.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/per-696x438.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>MOSCOW, Feb 13 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8212; Russian President Vladimir Putin and<br>his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed the situation in the Syrian city of Idlib during a phone conversation on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The leaders discussed \u201cvarious aspects of the Syrian crisis settlement,<br>primarily in the context of the aggravation of the situation in the Idlib de-<br>escalation zone,\u201d the Kremlin said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Kremlin, Putin and Erdogan noted the importance of the<br>full implementation of the existing Russian-Turkish agreements, including the Sochi memorandum signed on Sept 17, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the memorandum, Turkey and Russia agreed to turn parts of Idlib, the<br>last major rebel stronghold in Syria, into a de-escalation zone, where acts<br>of aggression are prohibited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the document was never fully implemented as rebels were not removed<br>from the de-escalation zone and the armed conflicts did not die down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tensions in Idlib have flared up recently as the Syrian government<br>forces, which are launching wide-scale offensives against the rebels in the<br>area, exchanged fire with Turkish troops, causing multiple deaths on both<br>sides. &#8212; NNN-XINHUA <br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW, Feb 13 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8212; Russian President Vladimir Putin andhis Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed the situation in the Syrian city of Idlib during a phone conversation on Wednesday. The leaders discussed \u201cvarious aspects of the Syrian crisis settlement,primarily in the context of the aggravation of the situation in the Idlib de-escalation zone,\u201d the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61821"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}