Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad said on Monday he would only meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan if the two countries could focus on the core issues of Ankara’s support for “terrorism” and the pullout of Turkish forces from Syrian territory. “The problem is not the meeting, but its content,” a video clip released by the presidency showed Assad telling reporters in Damascus. Turkey severed ties with Syria in 2011 after the outbreak of the Syrian civil war, in which it supported rebels looking to oust Assad. During the Syrian civil war, Assad termed all opposition to his regime as “terro…