president announced the cease fire the turkish foreign minister gave the press his government's view of the day's events. the art of it it's not the end of the operation it's not a ceasefire you could only have a ceasefire between 2 legitimate governments were suspending our operations so the terrorists the targets of our operation can leave the security zone. the turkish government also expects the y.p. g. militia to give up all its weapons and will continue its tie log with russia assad's military backers have moved their forces into position in northern syria in conjunction with syrian troops damascus and moscow so far have shown little willingness to accept turkey's security zone. now one of turkey's aims in northern syria is to set up what it calls a safe zone to resettle up to $2000000.00 syrian refugees who've been sheltering in