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Paris Intends to Boost Cooperation With Ankara in Anti-Daesh Fight – FM

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France is willing to expand cooperation with Turkey in the fight against the Daesh jihadist group, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said in a telephone conversation with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu.

PARIS (Sputnik) — The French and Turkish foreign ministers held talks on the ongoing civil war in Syria on Monday, according to the statement published earlier in the day by the French Foreign Ministry.

"Jean-Marc Ayrault has expressed France’s great concern over the deterioration of the situation in Aleppo, where the continued bombing of the regime and its allies aggravates the suffering of the population <…> He also stressed the need to strengthen the cooperation with Turkey in the fight against Daesh," the statement reads.

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Ayrault also urged his Turkish counterpart to comply with the International Syrian Support Group’s final communique adopted Thursday in Munich to implement ceasefire and end the hostilities in the war-torn country.

Syria has been in a state of civil war since 2011, with the army loyal to President Bashar Assad fighting several opposition factions and extremist groups, including Daesh, which is outlawed in Russia and the United States, among many other countries.

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