Press TV - Turkish President Recep Tayyip�Erdogan has discussed his country's latest military operations in Syria with Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz.

According to the state-run�Anadolu news agency on Tuesday, Erdogan told Salman during a phone conversation that Turkey's ongoing Operation Olive Branch in Syria's Afrin province�will permit citizens who were forced to flee to return home.

The two leaders also stressed the importance of Syria's territorial integrity and the significance of a political solution to the conflict in Syria.

They also reaffirmed their mutual determination to increase bilateral relations.

Turkey has been waging �Operation Olive Branch� against Syria�s Afrin region since January 20 in a bid to eliminate the US-backed Kurdish forces from the People�s Protection Units (YPG), which Ankara views as a terror organization and the Syrian branch of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers� Party (PKK). The latter has been fighting for an autonomous region inside Turkey since 1984.

The Turkish Afrin operations are not authorized by Damascus.