Turkish soldiers carry the coffin and hold a photo of Koray Karaca, a soldier who was killed in cross-border clashes with Kurdish People's Protection Units forces in Syria, during a funeral ceremony. Pic/AFP

Relations between Turkey and the US, strained by American support for the Syrian Democratic Forces, are close to breaking down, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday. Declaring bilateral ties at a "critical point", Cavusoglu said, "We will either fix the ties or they will break down completely."