Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that he was open to a meeting with Syrian President Bashar al Assad, but that setting the withdrawal of Turkish troops from Syrian territory as a precondition for talks was "unacceptable". Turkey has been the biggest military and political ally of the Syrian opposition, which controls the last rebel bastion in northwest Syria.
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Turkish forces have killed the suspected leader of the militant group Daesh (Islamic State, or IS) in Syria, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced.