Middle East war has caused 'geostrategic impasse', Erdogan says

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said during a telephone conversation with Nato chief Mark Rutte that the international community has to "redouble" efforts to bring the war in the Middle East to an end. 

"President Erdogan said the process started by the intervention against Iran had led to a geostrategic impasse and that the international community had to redouble its efforts to bring an end to this war," his office said during a statement on Saturday.