Mikati meets Erdogan in Turkey

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati met Wednesday with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara and discussed with him the latest developments in Syria and south Lebanon.

Mikati was accompanied by a ministerial delegation, the Lebanese Army representative, and Lebanon's ambassador to Turkey.

Erdogan said after the meeting that Turkey and Lebanon would work together on Syria after the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad by Islamist-led rebels.

"A new era has now begun in Syria. We agree that we must act together as two important neighbors of Syria," Erdogan told a news conference, alongside Mikati.

Local media reports had said before the meeting that Erdogan and Mikati will discuss the land demarcation between Lebanon and Syria after al-Assad's ouster, "the future of the Syrian-Lebanese relations" and the fate of the Lebanese missing in Syria's prions. Reports said the two will also discuss the developments in south Lebanon after a ceasefire agreement was reached in late November.

Since a Lebanese man, who was missing for 40 years, was freed by Syrian rebels from a prison in Hama last week, many Lebanese families are demanding to know the fate of their loved ones who are thought to be detained in Syrian prisons since Lebanon's civil war when Syrian troops were in Lebanon.