• President Putin in a telegram to the President of Turkey expressed its willingness to cooperate in combating terrorism
• Putin wants to strengthen counter-terrorism cooperation in the framework of agreements concluded in St. Petersburg
• Putin and Erdogan made on August 9 in St. Petersburg act of reconciliation
“The Russian president assured that what happened once again points to the need to strengthen the real efforts of the entire international community in the fight against terrorism” – said the press service of the Kremlin.
As passed, Putin “stressed the readiness to comprehensively strengthen counter-terrorism cooperation with the Turkish partner in the framework of agreements concluded recently in St. Petersburg.”
Putin and Erdogan made on August 9 in St. Petersburg act of reconciliation after more than six-month crisis that occurred in their relations after Turkish fighter shot down by a Russian bomber over the Turkish-Syrian border.
After this incident, Putin accused Erdogan of supporting jihadists in Syria. In St. Petersburg, the leaders of Russia and Turkey, however, decided to resume cooperation in the fight against the Islamic State (IS) and other groups dżihadystycznymi.
Ankara believes the Kurdish militias in Syria as a terrorist organization. While Russia supports the Kurdish militias in Iraq and Syria. Weapons supplies but only the first one.
In Saturday’s suicide bombing at a wedding reception in Gaziantep in southern Turkey killed 51 people and 69 wounded, and 17 were seriously injured. Erdogan said that the suspicion of an attack fall to the Islamic State.
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