March 2020. Turkey’s defence minister says there have been no violations of a ceasefire deal in Syria’s war-battered Idlib province, where residents and opposition forces described a lull in air raids that have pounded the country’s last rebel-held enclave. Russia and Turkey struck the agreement on Thursday evening, after six hours of talks in Moscow, to contain a conflict that has displaced nearly a million people in three months in northwest Syria. “We will continue to be a deterrent force to prevent any violation to the ceasefire. None occurred since ceasefire entered into force,” Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said on Saturday.