The workshop is led by a team of co-facilitators from the US, Azerbaijan and Armenia with significant academic and professional experience in conflict resolution and group facilitation.
According to a Turkish news agency, the main item of the talks of US Gen. David Petraeus and Turkish officials in Ankara was the ousting of outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) camps from northern Iraq.
Vladimir Putin was expected to visit Turkey in August, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in his meeting with Patriarch Kirill of the Moscow Orthodox Church in Ankara.