Turkey, Oct. 22 -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is due to hold a meeting with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, at the Black Sea resort of Sochi on Tuesday, hours before a ceasefire between Turkish and Kurdish forces in northern Syria is about to expire.

The talks between the two leaders will focus on "normalising the situation" in northeast Syria, according to the Kremlin.

There has been relative calm in northeast Syria since Turkey agreed on Thursday to a 120-hour pause in hostilities to allow Kurdish-led fighters to withdraw from the border area.

The United States-brokered truce is set to expire at 19:00 GMT on Tuesday.

Before departing for talks with Putin, Erdogan told reporters that Ankara would resume the milit...