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ANKARA. – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is to host Russian President Vladimir Putin as well as his French peer Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel for talks over Syria later this month.

The summit would be held in Istanbul on October 27, Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin was cited by state-run Anadolu news agency as saying on Friday.

The event would seek efforts to find a “long-lasting solution” to the crisis in Syria as well as the situation in the northwestern Syrian Idlib province, he added.

Erdogan had previously planned to host the international summit in September.

Idlib is the last stronghold of Takfiri terrorists and militants in Syria which has successfully ended their dominance in other provinces.

In September, the Syrian government was about to stage a wholesale counter-terrorism operation in the province. Russia, an ally of the Syrian government, and Turkey, which sides with anti-Damascus militants, however, announced a plan to create a de-militarised zone in the province, where the outfits would be disarmed and ultimately ordered to withdraw. – Press TV