Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu: If Assad regime acts realistically, we are ready to work together

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu confirmed on Monday during a speech he delivered in the Parliament, that his country is ready to work with the Assad regime on several files.

Çavuşoğlu made it clear that the Turkish intelligence service and the intelligence of the Assad regime have been in contact for a while, saying: “If the Assad regime acts realistically, we are ready to work together to fight terrorism, the political process and, the return of Syrians.”

Çavuşoğlu added that his country will never allow the Syrian Democratic Forces to take shelter in Syria and Iraq, and that Ankara will do whatever is necessary to uproot this organization from these two countries.

Çavuşoğlu said at the end of last November about the bilateral relations between Turkey and the Assad regime, that “our goal is to end the civil war in Syria, as we continue the process with the opposition, and we also participate in their meetings with the Assad regime on the Astana talks.”