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Erdogan Urges All Parties, International Community to Respect Aleppo Ceasefire

© REUTERS / Umit BektasTurkish President Tayyip Erdogan addresses the audience during a meeting in Ankara, Turkey, October 3, 2016. Picture taken October 3, 2016.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan addresses the audience during a meeting in Ankara, Turkey, October 3, 2016. Picture taken October 3, 2016. - Sputnik International
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The truce and evacuations in Syria's Aleppo, which Turkey helped negotiate, are crucial for the civilian population, says Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He urged all the parties to the Syrian conflict to help support the ceasefire.

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The truce and evacuations in Syria's Aleppo, which Turkey helped negotiate, are crucial for the civilian population, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday urging all the parties to the Syrian conflict to help support the ceasefire.

"The Turkey-brokered truce in Aleppo and the continuation of evacuations is the only hope left for innocent people. I urge all parties and the international community to abide by the truce agreement and support the implementation of the evacuation process," Erdogan wrote in his Twitter.

The president promised to do everything possible to save people suffering the terrible consequences of the conflict.

Aleppo in recent months has become a major battleground, with the city divided into the government-held western part and militant-controlled eastern districts.

Earlier on Friday, the Russian Defense Ministry's center for Syrian reconciliation said that the Syrian army's operation to liberate the eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo was over, and that the Syrian government troops were eliminating separate hotbeds of militant resistance.

The reconciliation center also said earlier in the day that over 6,000 people, including some 3,000 militants, had left eastern Aleppo for the Idlib province in several convoys in the first 24 hours of the evacuation operation, which kicked off on Thursday.

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