"SYRIA-TURKEY: FIRST TOP LEVEL FOOTBALL MATCH BETWEEN THE TWO IN 56 YEARS
Aleppo, Syria, 3 April (AKI) - Top level teams from Syria and Turkey are set to meet Tuesday on the football field for the first time in over half a century in a match that symbolises closer ties between the two neighbours long strained by Damascus' offering of sanctuary to Kurdish separatists. Syrian president Basher al-Assad and Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan are scheduled to attend the match between Turkey's Fenerbahce and Syria's al-Ittihad in Aleppo. The game will also serve to inaugurate a new stadium in the historic Syrian city."
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