Turkish President Tayyip Recep Erdogan has revealed his plans to visit Russia within the next few days and meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Moscow, for its part, said that a meeting with Erdogan in coming days is currently not on Putin’s agenda, according to Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov.

Erdogan’s announcement comes after he said earlier this month that the Turkish army was ready to start a military operation on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River against the Kurdish forces at the earliest opportunity.

However, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Friday that Turkey would postpone the operation until the complete pullout of the US forces from Syria, which recently was announced by US President Donald Trump.

Source: Sputnik