Putin should tell Erdogan to get out of Syria

The only thing that Vladimir Putin can say to his Turkish counterpart Recep Erdogan on March 5 in Moscow is: "If you are not a fool, then stop doing everything that you do in Idlib," expert Vladimir Anokhin believes. Defense Ministry makes harsh statement on Idlib The Russian Defense Ministry made a tough statement on the eve of the meeting between Vladimir Putin and Recep Erdogan on March 5. According to the spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov, following 18 months of the Sochi Accords on Syria with Turkey, terrorists started merging their occupied areas with Turkish observation posts, which were created as a result of the Sochi Accords on de-escalation in the Syrian province of Idlib. The Sochi Accords provided for the disengagement and ousting of terrorists from external borders of the de-escalation zone 15-20 kilometers inland and the withdrawal of heavy artillery hardware from the region. "Instead, Khayyat Tahrir al-Sham,* the Islamic Party of Turkestan*, and Khoras ad-Din,* which the UN officially recognizes as terrorist groups, ousted all militants of the "moderate opposition" to the north, towards the border with Turkey," said Konashenkov.