Ministers of rivals Turkey and Syria meet in Moscow after more than a decade

Trilateral meeting with Russia also has intelligence chiefs in attendance

The defence ministers of rivals Turkey and Syria met in Moscow after more than a decade along with their Russian counterpart in an effort to normalise ties between them amid the long-running Syrian war.

Wednesday’s ministerial-level meeting, which also had their intelligence chiefs in attendance, was the first to have taken place since the Syrian crisis began 11 years ago.

Russia had been trying to broker peace between Turkey and the Syrian government, as the two Moscow allies stood on opposite sides in Syria’s civil war.