"We are making all efforts to prevent any attacks on Russia's Hmeymim military base. Our military agencies act in a coordinated way", Erdogan said before starting talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
He said Turkish drones "did not detect any hardware in the area".
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The statement addresses reports about the Al-Nusra Front* terror organisation that had attacked Syrian army positions in the Idlib de-escalation zone earlier in January. According to Moscow, the situation in the zone could pose a serious danger to Russia’s Hmeymim airbase, as well as to civilians and Syrian troops in the area.
Russia also reported about numerous drone attacks on the airbase last year.
*Al-Nusra Front (also known as Jabhat al-Nusra, Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, or al-Qaeda in Syria) is a terrorist group banned in Russia