Turkish Foreign Minister: Syria ground operation by Ankara, Riyadh not on agenda

Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said ground operations in Syria will not be carried out neither by Turkey alone nor by Turkey with another country, dismissing rumors of preparations by Turkey and Saudi Arabia for a ground operation in Syria.

According to Daily Sabah, the Turkish top diplomat held a joint press conference in Ankara on Monday with Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni. 

"Rather than leaning on another terrorist organization on the ground in the combat against Daesh, we 65 coalition countries can very well combat these organizations. Thus, Turkey and Saudi Arabia conducting an operation in Syria has never come up in our agenda, and is not on our agenda," Çavuşoğlu reiterated.

Source: MENA