Turkey says Syrian government broke ceasefire

Turkey’s foreign minister is accusing the Syrian government of not abiding by a US-Russia brokered ceasefire.

Mevlut Cavusoglu told reporters in the coastal city of Antalya on Tuesday the Syrian government broke the ceasefire immediately after it came into effect the previous evening.

Cavusoglu says he hopes all parties will work to make the ceasefire permanent and that efforts “cannot be one-sided.”

Turkey’s military said earlier in the day that it shelled two targets inside Syria after a mortar round fell inside Turkey, minutes after a ceasefire came into effect. It said the mortar round was fired from Syrian government-controlled territory.

Cavusoglu stresses that Turkey will work to bring peace to Syria, but will also continue fighting the Islamic State group and Syrian Kurdish rebels it sees as a threat.

— AP