Meeting of Turkish, Russian military delegations starts in Ankara

ANKARA

A meeting between Turkish and Russian military delegations started on Tuesday in the Turkish capital Ankara, said Turkey’s National Defense Ministry.

“Under the agreement reached on March 5 in Moscow, meeting of Turkish and Russian military delegations started at the National Defense Ministry,” the ministry said on Twitter.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agreed to a new cease-fire for Idlib effective as of midnight on March 5.

Under the agreement, all military activities are to end in Idlib with the establishment of a security corridor 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) to the north and

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