Russian President Vladimir Putin his Turkish and Iranian counterparts Tayyip Erdoğan and Hassan Rouhani will today meet in Turkey capital Ankara to discuss strategy on Syria. The second three-way summit takes place amid significant developments happening on the ground in the seven-year civil war.
Iran and Russia, which support the Syrian government in the crisis, and Turkey, which backs the moderate opposition, have been in close cooperation through a series of talks aimed at finding a solution to the Syrian conflict since last year.
Various so-called "de-escalation zones" were agreed among the three powers in Syria as a result of multiple rounds of talks throughout 2017. The earlier talks took place in the Russian city of Sochi and Astana, the Kazakh capital.
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