Turkey's minister meets Syrian leader

ANKARA, Dec 22 (AFP): Turkey's foreign minister Hakan Fidan met with Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus on Sunday, Ankara's foreign ministry said.

A video released by the Anadolu state news agency showed the two men greeting each other.

No details of where the meeting took place in the Syrian capital were released by the ministry.

Fidan had announced on Friday that he planned to travel to Damascus to meet Syria's new leaders, who ousted Syria's strongman Bashar al-Assad after a lightning offensive.

Turkey's spy chief Ibrahim Kalin had earlier visited the city on December 12, just a few days after Assad's fall.