NATO is condemning 'indiscriminate air strikes by the Syrian regime and Russia,' after 33 Turkish soldiers were killed in an attack near Idlib on Thursday.
Syrians in the northwestern city of Idlib perform funerary prayers for Turkish soldiers Friday. Turkey sought an urgent NATO meeting after at least 33 Turkish soldiers were killed in Syria's Idlib province Thursday.Abdulaziz Ketaz/AFP via Getty Images
"I call on them to stop their offensive, to respect international law and to back U.N. efforts for a peaceful solution,"Stoltenberg did not lay out any changes NATO might make to its current security arrangement in the area. But Turkey says its military struck 200 Syrian regime targets Friday, in retaliation for the strikes.
Turkey requested the NATO meeting under Article 4 of the organization's founding treaty. The provision allows any ally to"request consultations whenever, in the opinion of any of them, their territorial integrity, political independence or security is threatened." Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone on Friday, in a conversation thatincluded a"substantive exchange of views" on Syria and an agreement to improve coordination between Russia's and Turkey's defense ministries.
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