DAMASCUS (AFP) - President Bashar al-Assad is to visit Ankara on Wednesday for talks with his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul focused on the Middle East peace process, Syria's ambassador to Turkey said on Monday.
His talks in Ankara will also cover "means to calm the political situation" in the region, Nidal Qabalan told AFP, contacted from Damascus.
Apart from brokering indirect Israeli-Syrian peace talks, Turkey has also been trying to defuse tensions between Damascus and Baghdad after Iraqi accusations that Damascus was sheltering insurgents.
Referring to Arab newspaper reports that Assad could meet Iraqi ministers in the Turkish capital, Qabalan said it was "normal for such meetings to take place when the conditions are right," without elaborating.
The Iraqi government said on Monday it will send a delegation to Turkey on Tuesday with evidence backing its allegations that terrorist groups based in Syria orchestrated deadly bombings in Baghdad.
Assad has dismissed the allegations as "immoral" and politically motivated.
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