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Turkish CHP Lawmaker Says Breakup of Syria Will Harm Turkey

© REUTERS / Omar SanadikiBuses are seen parked in Aleppo's government controlled area of Ramouseh, as they wait to evacuate civilians and rebels from eastern Aleppo, Syria December 15, 2016
Buses are seen parked in Aleppo's government controlled area of Ramouseh, as they wait to evacuate civilians and rebels from eastern Aleppo, Syria December 15, 2016 - Sputnik International
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Syrian crisis can be solved only in a diplomatic way and Russia-Turkey-Iran format could help keeping Syrian territorial integrity, as its potential split-up would harm Turkey as the neighboring country, Ozturk Yilmaz, a deputy chair responsible for foreign relations of the Republican People's Party (CHP), told Sputnik on Wednesday.

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — On Tuesday, the foreign and defense ministers of Russia, Iran and Turkey met in Moscow to discuss the situation in Syria, including in Aleppo. They agreed in a joint statement on the revival of the political process to end the conflict in the country. The document stressed the importance of respecting Syria's sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity.

"There must be a diplomatic solution. But the diplomatic solution which has been negotiated up to now by sides has no results in any outcome. But from now at least we can expect with a hope that [there] would be a change in parameters in favor of territorial integrity of Syria otherwise split up of Syria would be a problem for all countries including Turkey as the bordering state," Yilmaz said.

According to Yilmaz, the Russia-Turkey-Iran format is a new start that can contribute to bringing all warring parties in Syria together under a format the US-Russia one, and if the United States contributes to these efforts it could lead to facilitating Syrian unity.

"We need to work in a concerted manner, together with opposition, together with Syrian regime and with all relevant parties otherwise there is no hope, there is no military solution," Yilmaz added.

Since 2011, Syria has been engulfed in a civil war, following the protests that had turned violent, as part of the so-called Arab Spring. Over the recent months, Aleppo became a major battleground in Syria. On December 16, the Russian Defense Ministry's center for Syrian reconciliation said that the Syrian army operation to liberate the eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo was over, and that the Syrian government troops were eliminating separate hotbeds of militant resistance.

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