President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he would discuss the issue of the Ukrainian Zaporozhye nuclear power plant with his Russian counterpart after the talks he had with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Zelensky said that Russia should remove all mines from the region, Tayyip Erdogan told reporters yesterday, returning from Lvov.

“We will discuss this issue with (Vladimir) Putin, and I will specifically ask him that Russia do what it needs as an important step towards world peace,” the Turkish president said.

Turkey has ‘no ambition’ for Syrian territory

Turkey “has no ambition” for Syrian territory, said Tayyip Erdogan, who has been threatening a new attack on northern Syria and Kurdish organizations since May.

“We have no ambitions on Syrian soil (…) The (Damascus) regime should know this,” he told reporters during the flight, according to Turkish media.

The Turkish President added that he never rules out dialogue and diplomacy in Syria. In response to a reporter’s question, he said that diplomacy between states should never be completely ruled out, adopting a relatively softer tone than his previous statements on the subject. “Further steps need to be taken regarding Syria,” he said.

Ankara supports the opposition in the Syrian war. Damascus accuses Ankara of supporting “terrorist” organizations in Syria.

This year, Erdogan again threatened a new military operation in northern Syria. Since 2016, Turkey has helped its Syrian allies seize large swathes of northern Syria and have infiltrated a 30-kilometer zone from the Turkish-Syrian border, targeting the Kurdish YPG, which it considers a terrorist organization.

^{According to REUTERS, AFP, APE-MPE}