Turkey is not eager to embrace a recently-proposed Russian initiative to form a regional alliance to battle the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tanju Bilgiç said any other plan regarding ISIL other than the ongoing international coalition effort is not on Turkey’s agenda.
Asked about the Russian proposal and the recent meeting between Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, Bilgiç said Syrian issues were one of the topics with the Russian FM.