Turkey demands an immediate withdrawal of the Syrian army from Turkish observation posts in Idlib,  Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday.

According to him, Ankara will not wait for the end of February, RIA Novosti reported.

Erdogan said earlier he had called on his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to put pressure on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to stop the offensive in the Idlib province and withdraw from Turkish observation posts by the end of February, otherwise threatening with a military response