Blinken says he will meet with Turkey's president and foreign minister on Syria

 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that he will meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan to coordinate on Syria and to focus on “preventing any actor inside or outside the country from putting their narrow self-interests ahead of the interests of the Syrian people.”

“I’ve had many calls over the last days with partners in the region, and everyone’s agreed on the need to have a unified approach to advance many of our shared interests,” said Blinken to reporters before departing Jordan for Turkey.

Blinken said he spoke with Jordanian King Abdullah and Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi while in Jordan “to build up and build out that unified approach” toward Syria.

“I’ll continue those conversations with President Erdogan and Foreign Minister Fidan in Turkey as we head there going forward,” said Blinken.

Blinken reiterated the US commitment from stopping ISIS from growing in Syria in the wake of the rebellion that took down the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad.

“I think as we’ve demonstrated, the United States is determined to prevent that from happening,” said Blinken, referring to ISIS regrouping.