Erdoğan, Putin discuss Aleppo evacuation by phone

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have spoken three times over the phone on the northern Syrian province of Aleppo, which has been under intense attacks from the Russia and Iran-backed Bashar al-Assad regime.

The talks aim to make a significant decision, which may initiate the formation of a corridor to evacuate the moderate opposition and civilians.

Erdoğan and Putin's conversations were parts of Germany, Qatar, the United States and the European Union's talks to evacuate thousands stranded in barren Aleppo. Most civilian have already run out of food and decent shelter and are reportedly living on the streets.

On late Monday, the Assad regime seized East Aleppo substantially. Regime forces massacred civilians, including women and children, while they burn a large number of people alive.

Russia and the Assad regime are known to bomb Aleppo, the Syrian province located 50 kilometers from Turkey, as a part of terrorist organizations' and Assad's target to control northern Syria by taking the land from the moderate opposition.

The civil war in Syria has killed more than 250,000 people, according to the United Nations. The Syrian Center for Policy Research has established that the total death toll from conflict stands at more than 470,000.