MOSCOW, October 20. /TASS/. Moscow’s contacts with Turkey on Syria have been restored, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told a press briefing on Thursday.

"Contacts with our Turkish colleagues on Syria have been restored," the diplomat said. "An exchange of views is in progress, we are assessing what Turkey is doing. Our contacts have been restored, and we express the concerns that we have not so much in public as through the direct channels. Public rhetoric doesn’t add any constructive proposals."

Zakharova added that the process of restoring the Russian-Turkish relations is underway.