• Surely the importance of the meeting of the Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Turkish President Recep Erdogan does not stem from the economic dimension and its content raising the Russian sanctions.
• The origin of the Russian Turkish dispute was Syria, but the sanctions have been imposed after dropping the Russian plane.
• Turkey resorts to Russia after its bet on the war and on the West have reached to impasse. It decides its own policy in Syria that is embodied by the insistence of the Turkish President on mentioning the Kurdistan Workers’ Party in each time the terrorism is mentioned.
• Russia and Turkey have announced the understanding on a mechanism; they said that it is effective to follow up the situation in Syria, but they did not mention any details or clarifications.
• The Russian Ministry of Defense insists on issuing five statements in one day about Syria, announcing the presence of terrorist crowds around Aleppo, the turning of the Syrian army to the attack position, the number of the dead terrorists in the recent battles has reached to thousand, a truce for three hours daily, and about the range of the work of its continuous flight in Aleppo and in the sites of the terrorists.
• Russia says to whom it may concern, that there is no change in its commitments in the Syrian war with the visit of Erdogan, where the change is being anticipated from Turkey.

Translated by Lina Shehadeh,

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