Baladi - Newspapers
The presidents of Iran, Russia, and Turkey will meet on September 7 in Iran for their third tripartite summit on seeking to end the conflict in Syria, Turkish state television said Monday, the Daily Mail quoted AFP as saying.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will travel to Iran to meet with his Russian and Iranian counterparts Vladimir Putin and Hassan Rouhani, state-run TRT Haber television said. Private NTV television added the summit would be held in the northern Iranian city of Tabriz, the Daily mail said.
A Turkish presidential official contacted by AFP could not immediately confirm the reports. However, the presidency has invited Turkish journalists to cover a trip by Erdogan to Iran on September 7, according to the newspaper.
The three leaders have previously held summits in the Russian resort city of Sochi and the Turkish capital Ankara.
Ankara, Moscow and Tehran are backing peace talks based in the Kazakh capital Astana which they insist are aimed at reinforcing, rather than undermining, a UN peace process in Geneva.
Iran and Russia are the main allies of "Bashar al-Assad" and their military interventions in Syria are widely seen as tipping the balance of the seven year civil war in the regime's favour.
Turkey has backed rebels seeking to oust Assad but since late 2016 has been working increasingly closely with Iran and Russia to bring peace to Syria.