Moscow, Shawwal 6, 1438, Jun 30, 2017, SPA -- President Vladimir Putin of the Federal Republic of Russia made a telephone call today to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey. A press release issued by the Kremlin following the conversation, said that the two leaders focused on ways of finding a settlement to the Syrian crisis, citing the preparations for the fifth international meeting on Syria which will be held in the Kazakhstan's capital of Astana early July 2017. --SPA 00:58 LOCAL TIME 21:58 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w438255