MOSCOW. Aug 10 (Interfax) - Turkey is ready to send more humanitarian aid to de-escalation areas in Syria, Turkish Red Crescent Society head Kerem Kinik has told Interfax.
"We appreciate highly any initiative aimed at alleviating the suffering of the Syrian people, and are ready to join this humanitarian initiative," Kinik said.
Turkey is "currently working through this matter with partners," Kinik said.
"We determine how safe this or that [de-escalation] area is, and if it is safe, we prepare an expansion of humanitarian aid," Kinik said.
Turkey regularly sends trucks with humanitarian aid to Syria, he said. About 100-150 of them travel through five different checkpoints daily.
Russia is urging the United Nations to increase humanitarian aid deliveries to the de-escalation areas in Syria, Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya said earlier.