Erdoğan and Putin hold face-to-face talks over Syria ceasefire

Turkey’s president wants to shore up the truce because it has been ruptured repeatedly in the last 18 monthsThe Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, met with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, for their first face-to-face talks since the pandemic in which they discussed the future of the last pocket of Syria outside regime control.The leaders met in in the Russian Black Sea resort town of Sochi for Wednesday’s summit. Erdoğan sought to shore up a March 2020 ceasef