{"id":54336,"date":"2026-04-06T15:20:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/54336\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T15:20:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:20:27","slug":"turkish-fm-hosts-us-envoy-after-critical-syria-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/54336\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish FM hosts US envoy after critical Syria visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Monday hosted the U.S. Ambassador to T\u00fcrkiye and Special Envoy for Syria Tom Barrack. The ministry did not comment on what Fidan and Barrack discussed.<\/p>\n<p>Fidan was in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysabah.com\/politics\/diplomacy\/turkish-fm-meets-zelenskyy-al-sharaa-in-syria\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Syria<\/a> on Sunday for a surprise visit, where he met his counterpart Asaad Hassan al-Shaibani, before attending a meeting between President Ahmed al-Sharaa and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who arrived in Syria from T\u00fcrkiye on the same day and boarded a plane lent by the government.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Ministry sources said on Sunday that Fidan discussed bilateral issues and regional matters with Syrian officials. The talks also focused on bilateral projects for rebuilding postwar Syria and supporting Syria\u2019s capacity-building efforts, sources said. The United States also stepped up cooperation with the new administration in Syria, especially after al-Sharaa\u2019s recent visit to Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. has encouraged Syria to consider sending forces into eastern Lebanon to help disarm Hezbollah, but Damascus is reluctant to embark on such a mission for fear of being drawn into the war in the Middle East and inflaming \u2060sectarian tensions, five people briefed on the matter told Reuters last month. The proposal to Syria&#8217;s U.S.-allied \u2060government reflects intensifying moves to disarm Hezbollah. Al-Sharaa, however, said in a speech during the Muslim Eid al-Fitr last month that he is working to keep his country away from conflict, against the backdrop of the Middle East war, stressing that his government is on good terms with all regional countries.<\/p>\n<p>                    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775398629_544_JN9LXf.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                    The Daily Sabah Newsletter\n                <\/p>\n<p>\n                    Keep up to date with what\u2019s happening in Turkey,<br \/>\n                    it\u2019s region and the world.\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    SIGN ME UP\n                <\/p>\n<p>\n                    You can unsubscribe at any time. By signing up you are agreeing to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.<br \/>\n                    This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.\n                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Monday hosted the U.S. Ambassador to T\u00fcrkiye and Special Envoy for Syria Tom&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[651,95,21609,21608],"class_list":["post-54336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-syria","tag-hakan-fidan","tag-syria","tag-thomas-barrack","tag-turkish-us-relations"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116358442044915249","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}