Valery Gerasimov

The Chief of the Russian General Staff, Gen. Valery Gerasimov, said this on Wednesday, Sputnik is reporting.

If the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty is canceled, then Russian responsive measures will target the countries that accommodate US intermediate-range and short-range missiles, the Russian army chief said.

Turkish Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar met his Russian counterpart Valery Gerasimov on April 3, the Turkish Armed Forces said in a written statement.

Turkish Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar on Jan. 18 headed to Russia for a surprise meeting with his Russian counterpart Valery Gerasimov, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

Turkey has been pursuing some intense diplomacy in recent days.

A week after Iranian Chief of Staff Mohammad Bagheri's visit to Turkey—the first such visit since 1979—U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis came to Ankara.

Russian Chief of Staff Gen. Valery Gerasimov, is also expected to visit Turkey this week.

Turkey failed to convince the United States and Russia to allow it to assume active participation in retaking the Syria town of Raqqa from the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), or DAESH, on the condition of stopping collaboration with the People's Protection Units (YPG), an offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), diplomatic sources in Ankara have told the Hürriyet Daily

When the news hit the wires on March 7 about a surprise meeting in Turkey between the Turkish, American and Russian top generals on Syria and Iraq, there were suggestions that there might be room for a joint strategy where Turkish concerns would be met, even if not fully. Gen. Hulusi Akar of the Chief of Turkish General Staff hosted Gen. Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the U.S.

The top soldiers of Turkey, the United States and Russia have come together in Antalya in a first-of-its-kind tripartite summit, the Turkish military has stated, highlighting developments in Syria and Iraq as top issues of the agenda.

Senior Russian and NATO military chiefs on March 3 held their first phone talks since ties between the two sides collapsed over the crisis in Ukraine, the Defense Ministry in Moscow said.  

* A Russian war plane that took off from the Hmeymim air base in Syria hit a building southwest of the Syrian town of Al-Bab at around 08.40 a.m. on Feb. 9. 

Russian airstrikes have accidentally killed three Turkish soldiers and injured 11 others in northern Syria, Russia’s Defense Ministry confirmed. A Russian warplane hit a building housing Turkish soldiers in Al-Bab at 8:40 am local time, the Hurriyet Daily reports citing Ankara’s statement. Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed condolences over the accidental loss of life in the airstrike,