Al-Assad in phone talks with Turkey's counterpart

President Bashar al-Assad on Friday made a phone call with Turkey's President Ahmet Necdet Sezer in which the President offered condolences on the passing away of President Sezer's mother. Talks during the call discussed the developed relations between the two countries and means of boosting them on all levels.

They also touched upon the outcome of the Syrian-Turkish economic discussions recently held in Turkey particularly those related to the establishment of the free-trade zone between the two countries.