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Conte urges Turkey to act as responsible Nato ally in Syria

17 ottobre 2019 | 16.28
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Photo: AFP
Photo: AFP

Nato member Turkey must play its "strategic" geopolitical role "responsibly" and halt its military action in Syria to help stablise the region, premier Giuseppe Conte told president Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a phonecall on Thursday.

"Conte repeatedly urged Erdogan to responsibly play its strategic geopolitical role and that of Nato ally and act in the collective interest of the entire region's stability," read a statement from Conte's office.

Italy's public and politicians back the government's view that Turkey must stop its week-old military offensive in northeast Syria, said the statement.

Turkey's "unilateral initiative" is having "negative and counter-productive" effects and is causing "a humanitarian crisis, suffering and displacement," the statement went on.

"Conte invited Erdogan to withdraw Turkish troops from the area to prevent the humanitarian crisis getting worse as well as jeopardising the fight against the Islamic State (jihadist group) and United Nations efforts to reach a political solution (to the Syrian conflict)," the statement said.

Protecting Syria's civilians and ending the country's eight-year civil war are "inalienable priorities for Italy and the whole of the international community," Conte told Erdogan, according to the statement.

Turkey’s Operation Peace Spring offensive in northeast Syria began on 9 October after United States president Donald Trump said that US forces would withdraw from the region

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