The Minister of National Defense of Turkey, Fikri Işık, has been included in the Turkish delegation, led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, which will visit Russia on Friday.

Bloomberg News informed the aforementioned citing sources in the Turkish military department.  

Accordingly, the decision on Işık’s participation in the visit was made against the backdrop of Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım’s statement that conducting a Turkish military operation in Syria’s Manbij is meaningless without a respective agreement with Moscow and Washington.