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THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2025
Erdogan tells Sharaa Turkey welcomes lifting of Syria sanctions

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Reuters
25 May, 2025, 11:15 am
Last modified: 25 May, 2025, 11:21 am

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Erdogan tells Sharaa Turkey welcomes lifting of Syria sanctions

Sharaa's unscheduled visit came a day after US President Donald Trump's administration issued orders effectively lifting sanctions on Syria after its 14-year civil war. EU foreign ministers also agreed this week to lift sanctions on Syria

Reuters
25 May, 2025, 11:15 am
Last modified: 25 May, 2025, 11:21 am
Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan meets with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Istanbul, Turkey, May 24, 2025. Photo: Murat Cetinmuhurdar/PPO/Handout via REUTERS
Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan meets with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Istanbul, Turkey, May 24, 2025. Photo: Murat Cetinmuhurdar/PPO/Handout via REUTERS

Highlights:

  • Sharaa visit comes day after US ordered lifting of sanctions
  • Turkey is one of main allies of Sharaa government
  • Ankara seeks integration of Kurdish forces into Syrian military

President Tayyip Erdogan told Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa during talks in Istanbul on Saturday that Turkey welcomed the US and EU decisions to lift sanctions on Syria, the Turkish leader's office said.

Sharaa's unscheduled visit came a day after US President Donald Trump's administration issued orders effectively lifting sanctions on Syria after its 14-year civil war. EU foreign ministers also agreed this week to lift sanctions on Syria.

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"Our President told Sharaa ... that Turkey welcomed the lifting of sanctions," his office said in a statement on X.

Ankara has become one of the main foreign allies of Sharaa's government since rebels - some of them backed for years by Turkey - ousted former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad last year to end his family's five-decade rule.

Earlier, Turkish broadcasters showed Erdogan shaking hands with Sharaa as he emerged from his car at the Dolmabahce Palace on the shores of the Bosphorus Strait in Turkey's largest city.

Turkey's foreign and defence ministers attended the talks, along with the head of the Turkish MIT intelligence agency, the statement said. Their Syrian counterparts also attended, Syrian state news agency SANA said.

Amid the moves to lift sanctions, the US ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack said on Friday he had assumed the role of special envoy to Syria. Reuters reported earlier this week the US planned to appoint him as special envoy.

The move suggests US acknowledgement that Turkey has emerged with key regional influence on Damascus.

MIT chief Ibrahim Kalin and Sharaa held talks earlier this week on the Syrian Kurdish YPG militant group laying down its weapons and integrating into Syrian security forces, a Turkish security source said previously.

Turkey, which still controls swathes of territory in Syria's north after cross-border operations against the YPG militia, has repeatedly demanded that the YPG disarm and disband.

The YPG spearheads the US-allied SDF forces in Syria, but Turkey regards its as a terrorist group, affiliated with Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants who have fought an 40-year insurgency against Turkey. The PKK announced this month that it had decided to end its armed struggle and disband.

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