Turkey said Sunday that Syrian Kurdish militias violated the truce 20 times and killed one Turkish soldier and wounded another in its ranks.
Al-Jazeera correspondent reported renewed clashes in the border area of Ras al-Ain between the YPG and the Turkish army and the Syrian opposition, after a cautious calm and sporadic bullets.
Before that, the correspondent of the island said that the Kurdish militias were burning crude oil to confuse the reconnaissance operations conducted by the Turkish army.
"One of our heroic comrades fell as a martyr and another was wounded in a small-arms and anti-tank attack ... carried out by terrorists during reconnaissance and surveillance," the Defense Ministry said in a statement.
It also stated that the attack had been replied as part of legitimate self-defense and that Turkey remained committed to the Armistice Agreement despite the violations.
The statement stressed that Kurdish units carried out twenty provocative acts or violation in northern Syria despite the Safe Zone agreement concluded with the United States, adding that despite all these breaches of the agreement entered a convoy of 39 ambulances yesterday and left the city of Ras Al-Ain safely, and evacuated a number of wounded and people Of the region.
According to sources in the National Army of the Syrian opposition that the shooting took place in Ras al-Ain after the evacuation of the wounded yesterday.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said: "We have agreed to temporarily stop the fighting for 120 hours.
Erdogan said he had spoken by telephone with his US counterpart Donald Trump in the evening, and that he would meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday during his visit to Moscow to discuss the deployment of Syrian regime forces in the safe area.``If we do not find a solution, we will continue to implement our plans. ''
On Thursday, Ankara and Washington reached an agreement to suspend the military operation launched by the Turkish army with the participation of the Syrian opposition on October 9, which requires that the safe area in northern Syria be under the control of the Turkish army, the withdrawal of Kurdish elements from the region, and the lifting of sanctions against Ankara.