Russia tells Turkey to hand Afrin over to Syrian regime

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Russia tells Turkey to hand Afrin over to Syrian regime

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Moscow would want to see Turkey return the region of Afrin in Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava) to the government of Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday.

“We always proceed from the fact that the easiest way to normalize the situation in Afrin, now that Turkish representatives say that the main goals they set there have been achieved, would be to return the territory under the control of the Syrian government,” Lavrov said.

“[Turkish] President [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan has never said that Turkey wants to occupy Afrin,” Lavrov went on, according to remarks carried by the Russian government-owned Sputnik news agency.

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