{"id":35342,"date":"2025-12-22T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multimetro.hk\/plus\/2025\/12\/22\/high-level-turkish-team-to-visit-damascus-on-monday-for-talks-on-sdf-integration\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T18:10:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T10:10:00","slug":"high-level-turkish-team-to-visit-damascus-on-monday-for-talks-on-sdf-integration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimetro.hk\/plus\/2025\/12\/22\/high-level-turkish-team-to-visit-damascus-on-monday-for-talks-on-sdf-integration\/","title":{"rendered":"High-level Turkish team to visit Damascus on Monday for talks on SDF integration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A high-level Turkish delegation will visit Damascus on Monday to discuss bilateral ties and the implementation of a deal for integrating the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) into Syria&#8217;s state apparatus, a Turkish Foreign Ministry source said.<br \/>The visit by Turkey&#8217;s foreign and defence ministers and its intelligence chief comes amid efforts by Syrian, Kurdish and U.S. officials to show some progress with the deal. But Ankara accuses the SDF of stalling ahead of a year-end deadline.<br \/>Turkey views the U.S.-backed SDF, which controls swathes of northeastern Syria, as a terrorist organisation and has warned of military action if the group does not honour the agreement.<br \/>Last week Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said Ankara hoped to avoid resorting to military action against the SDF but that its patience was running out.       The Foreign Ministry source said Fidan, Defence Minister Yasar Guler and the head of Turkey&#8217;s MIT intelligence agency, Ibrahim Kalin, would attend the talks in Damascus, a year after the fall of former President Bashar al-Assad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A high-level Turkish delegation will visit Damascus on Monday to discuss bilateral ties and the implementation of a deal for integrating the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) into Syria&#8217;s state apparatus, a Turkish Foreign Ministry source said.The visit by Turkey&#8217;s foreign and defence ministers and its intelligence chief comes amid efforts by Syrian, Kurdish and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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