Turkish President Erdogan opens door to restoration of ties with Syria

ANKARA: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan opened the door on Friday to a restoration of ties with the Assad regime in Damascus 16 years after relations were severed at the start of the Syrian civil war.

“There is no reason for it not to happen,” Erdogan said. “Just as we kept our ties very lively in the past, we even held talks between our families with Assad, it is certainly not possible to say this will not happen again in the future, it can happen.”