The first meeting took around eight hours, in a bid to show the intensity of the issues discussed by the two countries. A U.S. source described the meetings as focused on “the ongoing cooperation to degrade and defeat ISIL.”
There were no statements from either side after the first day’s meeting. The meeting comes after Turkey reinforced its military presence on the Syrian border in a bid to deter ISIL’s advance on northwestern Syria, which is under the ostensible control of the Free Syrian Army.
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