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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stressed the need for immediate action to rebuild Syria during a phone call with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Thursday.

The conversation, which covered a range of bilateral and global issues, highlighted Türkiye's push for a more active role in the region.

Türkiye's Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya on Jan. 9 paid a visit to the Cilvegözü Border Gate in the southern province of Hatay, a crucial crossing into Syria, one month after the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime.

Some 52,662 Syrian refugees residing in Türkiye have returned to their homeland since the regime's downfall, Yerlikaya told reporters during the visit.

Baku unwaveringly supports Türkiye's emerging role as a key player in the shifting landscapes in Syria and the Midde East, with the two allies sharing mutual interests, Azerbaijani President İlham Aliyev has said.

A view of Damascus is seen from the Mount Qassioun, which was opened to the public after the fall of the Assad regime, in Syria, Thursday, Jan. 2, 2025.

Türkiye signaled strong economic cooperation for Syria's reconstruction after the 61-year Baath regime fell in early December last year, leaving behind a country with significant economic and infrastructural problems.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Masrour Barzani in the capital Ankara on Jan. 7 to discuss regional developments and ties between Ankara and Arbil.

Türkiye and Qatar are set to dispatch two electricity-generating ships to Syria in a bid to alleviate the country's severe energy crisis, exacerbated by widespread infrastructure damage during toppled President Bashar al-Assad's rule, Syrian state news agency SANA reported on Jan. 7.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that the end of Kurdish militants in Syria was getting closer, and added there was no room for terror in Syria's future after the ousting of Bashar al-Assad last month.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Syria's new leadership is determined to root out separatists there, as Ankara said its military had "neutralized" 32 members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, in the country.

Türkiye and Jordan have agreed on a road map to help Syria in its endeavors to build a new political system and reconstruct the war-torn country during high-level talks between the two regional powers.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and his Ukrainian counterpart, Andrii Sybiha, held a phone conversation during which they discussed the ongoing Russian occupation of Ukraine and recent developments in Syria, according to diplomatic sources.

Foreign Minister Fidan and his Ukrainian counterpart Sybiha talked on the phone late on Jan. 4, the sources stressed.