Erdoğan, Putin speak on phone, stress 'territorial integrity of Iraq, Syria' 

ANKARA

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone conversation on the situation in Syria and Iraq on Sept. 25, private broadcaster CNN Türk has reported.   

During the conversation, the two leaders stressed the "importance of the territorial integrity of Iraq and Syria," the broadcaster reported.

The conversation came amid the Sept. 25 referendum on independence in the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq.