Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan | Laszlo Balogh/Getty Images Erdoğan says he will meet Putin, Merkel and Macron to discuss Syria Plans for March 5 meeting follow a sharp escalation in violence in Idlib.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Saturday that he would meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron on March 5 to discuss the deepening crisis in Syria's Idlib.

Erdoğan did not say where the leaders would meet. Russia, Germany and France did not immediately confirm the meeting.

Merkel and Macron have expressed growing alarm about the situation in Idlib, where an escalation in fighting has displaced nearly 1 million people in recent weeks amid aerial bombing by Syrian regime forces and their Russian allies.

The two leaders also took time out from an extraordinary leaders' summit on the EU budget this week to hold phone calls with Putin and Erdoğan about the situation in Syria.