Turkey will not leave Syria until the Syrian people hold an election, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday. “Whenever the Syrian people hold an election, we will leave Syria to its owners after they hold their elections,” Erdogan said at the two-days TRT World forum in Istanbul, which was attended by prominent diplomatic and political officials. The President added that Turkey has cleared the “Euphrates Shield” in Aleppo province and the “Olive Branch” in Afrin from “terrorist organizations,” in coordination with the Free Syrian Army. He pointed out that about 250 thousand Syrians have returned to these regions after Turkey had fought terrorist organizations and liberated these areas. "Idlib has become a refuge for those fleeing bombardment in Aleppo and other parts of Syria,” Erdogan noted. He warned that targeting it with barrel bombs and other weapons will force the displaced to flee to Turkey, which has so far hosted 3.5 million Syrians. In a common matter, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu met with Special Envoy of UN Secretary General on Syria Staffan de Mistura on the sidelines of the forum in Istanbul and discussed with him the Syrian file. “We have discussed the period ahead in the political process in Syria, including the Constitutional Committee,” Cavusoglu tweeted on Friday. He called on Thursday for a "balanced political solution" in Syria, saying that establishing a constitutional committee is the "last window of opportunity" for peace. De Mistura, for his part, stressed the importance of the next three months to establish stability in Idlib and form a the constitutional commission. The international community has tried all solutions to succeed in Syria. However, the military solution was the objective to solve the problem from the beginning, De Mistura explained. “We have reached a dead end. The two sides need a mediator to find common factors. We want a political solution,” he stressed. “The most important point in the matter is that we do not want proxy wars. There are armies of many countries, and this is a very large risk,” he said, pointing to the importance of political negotiations. He also gave an example the Idlib agreement, which was reached between Turkey and Russia and enabled the protection of three million people in Idlib.