Turkey to solve Syria issue after polls: Erdogan

By Ali Bayaslan

ISTANBUL (AA) - Turkey's president on Saturday said that they will "definitely" solve Syria issue on the field after Sunday's local elections in Turkey.

"We will definitely solve Syria issue on the field, if possible, and not on the table, as the first work after elections," Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in an election rally in Istanbul.

Erdogan said that those who wish to close Turkey’s southern borders with a terror corridor will never find a chance to do that.

“We have taught the necessary lesson to those who tried to do that and we will do the same to them in the future,” he added.

Syria has been locked in a vicious civil war since early 2011, when the Assad regime cracked down on pro-democracy protests with unexpected ferocity.

Since then, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and more than 10 million others displaced, according to UN officials.

*Writing by Fatih Hafiz Mehmet