Erdogan to Lead Large Delegation to Syria, Media Reports

ANKARA (Sputnik) - Earlier, US President-elect Donald Trump said that he believes Turkey and its President Recep Tayyip Erdogan were the main actors behind the recent events in Syria that led to the fall of President Bashar al-Assad's rule. Trump said Turkey "did an unfriendly takeover" of Syria.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will lead a large delegation of ministers to Syria, Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reported on Tuesday.
The delegation will include ministers in charge of the economy and investment. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin have already paid visits to Damascus.
The Turkish presidential office told Sputnik that the exact dates of Erdogan's visit to Syria were being worked out.
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Syria's armed opposition captured Damascus on December 8. Russian officials said that Syrian President Bashar Assad stepped down after negotiations with participants in the Syrian conflict and left Syria for Russia, where he was granted asylum. Mohammed al-Bashir, who ran an Idlib-based administration formed by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and other opposition groups, was named interim prime minister. He announced that an interim government had been formed and would remain in place until March 2025.