Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has arrived in the Black Sea town of Sochi for talks with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, hours before a United States-brokered ceasefire was set to expire in northeast Syria.
Erdogan and Putin were expected on Oct. 22 to discuss the situation in northeast Syria, where Turkey wants to create a “safe zone” cleared of Kurdish-led fighters now allied to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.