Syria intervention is not an option, Russia's Medvedev tells Erdoğan

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan that the search for a way to end bloodshed in Syria should continue, including in the U.N. Security Council, but that foreign interference was not an option, Hurriyet Daily News cites the Kremlin as saying.

In a telephone conversation, Medvedev "underscored the need to continue - including in the U.N. Security Council - the search for agreed approaches with the aim of fostering the resolution of the crisis by Syrians themselves, without external interference," the Kremlin said in a statement.