ANKARA (Sputnik) – The United States applies double standards suggestingTurkey to read the UN Security Council resolution on the Syrian truce inthe light of Ankara’s operation in Afrin, it is Washington that should readthe document, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag said Thursday.

“We have read [the UN Security Council resolution], it is them [the UnitedStates] who should read it. Afrin is not mentioned there. This decisionof the UN Security Council does not exclude the fight against terrorists,and Turkey is fighting against them and contributing to peace there.Terrorists are all the same, you cannot divide them into bad and good ones.The United States behaves illogically guided by double standards, thiscannot be accepted. Not a single civilian was injured during the OliveBranch operation,” Bozdag told reporters.

On Tuesday, US State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert advised Ankarato “go back and read this resolution,” when asked whether she would agreethat Turkey was violating Syrian ceasefire by its actions in Afrin.

Commenting on the accusationslink>,theTurkish Foreign Ministry’s spokesman, Hami Aksoy,said that such USstatements undermined the essence of the resolution.

Last Saturday, the UN Security Council unanimously adoptedlink>resolution2401 that urges all parties to the conflict to immediately halt all clashesand adhere to a long-term humanitarian pause on the entire territoryof Syria in order to ensure safe and unhindered humanitarian aid supplies,as well as medical evacuations for those injured.

The resolution, however, determined that the ceasefire regime did not applyto military operations against Daesh, al-Qaeda, and Jabhat Fatah al-Sham(formerly known as Nusra Front) terrorist groups.