Turkiye urges peaceful Syria-SDF talks, warns patience running out – foreign minister

Turkiye's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan listens to Iran's Foreign Minister during a joint press conference, in Tehran, Iran. (AFP)
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Updated 18 December 2025
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Turkiye urges peaceful Syria-SDF talks, warns patience running out – foreign minister

ANKARA: Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Thursday that Turkiye did not want to resort to military action again against Syria’s Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), but warned that the patience of the actors involved was running out over what he described as delays in implementing an integration deal.
“We just hope that things go through dialogue, negotiations and peacefully. We don’t want to see any need to resorting to military means again. But SDF should understand the patience of the relevant actors are running out,” Fidan told an interview with TRT World.
“They should come to a place where their commitment to the agreement of 10th of March should be honored. Everybody is expecting from them to honor that agreement without any delay and without any twisting because we don’t want to see a deviation from this agreement,” he added.


New conference due in February to support Lebanese armed forces, says France

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New conference due in February to support Lebanese armed forces, says France

  • Thursday’s talks in Paris were focused on how to show progress regarding the disarming of Hezbollah

PARIS: The political parties holding a meeting in Paris on Thursday all agreed to have a conference in February aimed at supporting the Lebanese armed forces, said a French foreign ministry spokesperson.
The spokesperson added that Thursday’s talks in Paris were focused on how to show progress regarding the disarming of Hezbollah.
French, Saudi Arabian and American officials were holding talks with the head of the Lebanese army on Thursday in Paris aimed at finalizing a roadmap to enable a mechanism for the disarmament of the Hezbollah group.