World War 3 is ‘inevitable’ as Russia and America clash in Syria, Turkey warns

Escalating tensions between Russia and America will lead to a ‘global conflict’ if the war in Syria cannot be resolved, Turkey has warned.

Tensions between Washington and Moscow have risen in recent weeks, over Western calls for Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to step down.

Turkish deputy prime minister Numan Kurtulmus: ‘If this proxy war continues, after this, let me be clear, America and Russia will come to a point of war.’

Kurtulmus said that the conflict had put the world, 'on the brink of the beginning of a large regional or global war.’

As the two nations face off in Syria, Vladimir Putin suspended an agreement with the United States for disposal of weapons-grade plutonium because of ‘unfriendly; acts by Washington, the Kremlin said.

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev said last week in an interview with Ria Novosti, ‘I think the world has approached a dangerous threshold. We need to stop. Dialogue should be resumed. Stopping the dialogue has been the biggest mistake.