Syrian president, Ahmed Al-Sharaa, arrived in Turkiye on Tuesday for talks with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, his second international trip since ousting President Bashar Assad, an official told AFP.
Al-Sharaa was to meet the Turkish leader in the capital Ankara after flying in from Saudi Arabia, where he was seeking help from Gulf countries to finance the reconstruction of his war-ravaged nation and revive its economy.
Turkiye, which has close ties with Al-Sharaa, reopened its diplomatic mission in the Syrian Arab Republic and sent its spy chief and foreign minister for talks with him soon after the HTS overthrew Assad on December 8.
The pair will discuss “joint steps to be taken for economic recovery, sustainable stability and security,” Erdogan’s communications chief Fahrettin Altun said on Monday.
Despite being constrained by its own economic crisis, Turkiye is offering to help with Syria’s recovery after a devastating 13-year civil war.
In return, Turkiye is keen to secure Damascus’s support against Kurdish militants in northeastern Syria, where the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have been battling Ankara-backed forces.
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