Military operations in Syria affecting negotiation process - Russian diplomat

GENEVA, April 26. /TASS/. Any military operations are affecting the process of peaceful settlement in Syria, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said on Wednesday. The Russian diplomat thus commented on Turkey’s strike against Kurds in Iraq and Syria overnight to April 25. "Naturally, any military operations are negatively affecting the general situation and the negotiation process, in particular," the deputy foreign minister said. Gatilov added he didn’t know whether Turkey had informed Russia of this military operation in advance. Overnight to April 25, the Turkish warplanes delivered a strike against targets of Kurdistan Workers’ Party recognized as a terrorist organization in the country, in the Sinjar Mountains region in northern Iraq and in Karachok Mountains in northeast Syria. As the Turkish General Staff reported, "40 members of the terrorist separatist organization [the Kurdistan Workers’ Party] were neutralized in Iraq and 30 in Syria." Read more