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Turkish premier to visit Syria
Dec 21, 2009, 8:00 GMT
Damascus - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey is due to arrive in Damascus Tuesday for a two-day official visit, state media in Damascus reported Monday.
The visit is expected to see the signing of 56 new agreements, while Erdogan would also participate in a meeting of the recently established Syrian-Turkish High-Level Strategic Cooperation Council, according to the reports.
Syria and Turkey have been marking increasingly warming relations. The two countries almost went to war in the late 1990s, after Ankara accused Damascus of providing support to the banned separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
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