Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said Turkish troops might withdraw from Syria under certain conditions.
"There were two major objectives of Turkish presence in Syria. One is to prevent further mass migration to Turkey, because under opposition control, still today, 5 million people were living under opposition control; and counterterrorism issues were primarily important for us. Right now, when we see that those two major concerns are eliminating, we have no reason to stay in Syria," Fidan told Al Jazeera in an interview.
He said the new administration in Syria should be given some more time to see how events will develop.
Mohammed al-Bashir, who ran an Idlib-based administration formed by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and other opposition groups, was named interim prime minister on December 10. He announced later that the interim government had been formed and would remain in place until March 2025.