Turkey warns Syria talks at risk over truce violations

Turkey warned Wednesday that a new round of Syria peace talks was at risk, accusing President Bashar al-Assad's government of violating a fragile truce it brokered with Russia last week.


The nationwide ceasefire has brought quiet to large parts of Syria, but has been threatened by ongoing fighting in the Wadi Barada region near the capital Damascus.

Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Wednesday urged the regime and its backers to end their "violations" of the truce, warning they were jeopardising the planned talks in Kazakh capital Astana this month.

"If we do not stop the increasing violations, the Astana process could fail. After the ceasefire, we see violations," Cavusoglu told the state-run Anadolu news agency in an interview.
 [i24news.tv/AFP]
4/1/17
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