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new turkey in his mind a new narrative for turkey, ambitions for turkey but mostly he's ambitious for himself. and what is really happening he wants to see turkey as a leader, i'm not sure exactly what, maybe he wants the world around him. but look at his finances, policy options, you saw me last week in the new york times he's not talking about a nuclear option, he has been saying that for a while. he has been wanting to reform the security in 2017 had detailed plans for the and he thinks they should be a permanent member of the security council and the world is greater than the five permanent members. you see very ambitious but this is very much in line with authoritarian leaders with policy. it comes very aggressive and ideological. it is also pragmatic. he knows how much to push and when to stop pushing and went to make deals. and this is to understand he can be stopped. but the most significant aspect of his foreign-policy is is really domestic, away of consolidating but also making them the most important leaders may be overstating -. in the process, he is creating essentially a
new turkey in his mind a new narrative for turkey, ambitions for turkey but mostly he's ambitious for himself. and what is really happening he wants to see turkey as a leader, i'm not sure exactly what, maybe he wants the world around him. but look at his finances, policy options, you saw me last week in the new york times he's not talking about a nuclear option, he has been saying that for a while. he has been wanting to reform the security in 2017 had detailed plans for the and he thinks they...
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turkey asked them to ta ke turkey, ataturk. turkey asked them to take down that page, that was one issue, but the other was financial. we had a similar issue with youtube and turkish officers said if you're making millions of dollars in turkey, you should have an office in turkey, you should have an office in turkey and pay your taxes. turkey made this deal and youtube opened again, that's a financial matter. my last line on that, if you're allowing isis to operate newspapers in the uk, germany or france, then you cannot expect turkey to allow the pkk or fatah to run newspapers. peter, you haven't replied on this point about press freedoms and human rights in general. point about wikipedia, it is simply not about tax. wikipedia is a not—for—profit and those using it are often asked to make a contribution. i think it isa to make a contribution. i think it is a great shame and i found that to my cost this afternoon when doing some research that i couldn't get into wikipedia, which is an important part of my life, especially a
turkey asked them to ta ke turkey, ataturk. turkey asked them to take down that page, that was one issue, but the other was financial. we had a similar issue with youtube and turkish officers said if you're making millions of dollars in turkey, you should have an office in turkey, you should have an office in turkey and pay your taxes. turkey made this deal and youtube opened again, that's a financial matter. my last line on that, if you're allowing isis to operate newspapers in the uk, germany...
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syria and turkey. vice president pence made the announcement in turkey after a four-hour meeting with turkish president erdogan. vice president pence: one week ago turkish forces crossed into syria. earlier this week, president trump took decisive action to call on turkish forces to stand down, to end the violence, agree to negotiations. today, i'm proud to report, thanks to the strong leadership of president donald trump and the strong relationship between president erdogan and turkey and the united states of america, that today we united states and turkey have agreed to a cease ire in syria. the turkish side will pause operation peace spring in order to allow for the withdrawal of y.p.g. forces from the safe zone for 120 hours. all military operations under eration peace spring will be paused an operation peace spring will be halted entirely on completion of the withdrawal. our administration has already been in contact with syrian defense forces and we have already begun to facilitate their safe wit
syria and turkey. vice president pence made the announcement in turkey after a four-hour meeting with turkish president erdogan. vice president pence: one week ago turkish forces crossed into syria. earlier this week, president trump took decisive action to call on turkish forces to stand down, to end the violence, agree to negotiations. today, i'm proud to report, thanks to the strong leadership of president donald trump and the strong relationship between president erdogan and turkey and the...
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turkey has agreed to. we saw it right away movement in the financial markets. the turkish lira lining in value. 3.5%.p stocks rallied by let's get insight from bloombergs foreign policy reporter. you were listening to the comments. judging by the reaction, this was a surprise. what did we know about the conversations that mike pence and mike pompeo had? nick: they did not have a great deal of time to do it. the vice president was explicit with the marching orders were, which to -- which were to get a cease-fire. the thing that struck me is that you did not have a call from the vice president for turkey to withdraw its two troops -- its troops from the safe zone. there appears to be no mandate for turkey to do mandate for turkey to do so. the end result is, you have a positive fighting but turkey is allowed to keep the military gains that it has made over the last several days in exchange for a halt on sanctions then after five days, possibly getting the sanctions lifted. for me, that was the key takeaway.
turkey has agreed to. we saw it right away movement in the financial markets. the turkish lira lining in value. 3.5%.p stocks rallied by let's get insight from bloombergs foreign policy reporter. you were listening to the comments. judging by the reaction, this was a surprise. what did we know about the conversations that mike pence and mike pompeo had? nick: they did not have a great deal of time to do it. the vice president was explicit with the marching orders were, which to -- which were to...
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america's complicity in turkish denials and ultimately turkey's denials ultimately turkey's denials we're going to see arming itself be safer because the army cannot be safe they bordered by an unrepentant over armed robber traitor of the nile a perpetrator of genocide rather seizing right mr beyond the immediate national committee of america mr burnham we appreciate your time and your insights tonight thank you very much. thank you thank you. paul the united states is not the only nato member concerned about turkey you may remember germany along with france and the u.k. restricted weapons sales to turkey when the military offensive against the kurds began but germany and turkey have locked nato horns before in 2017 turkey banned german lawmakers from visiting german servicemen and women stationed at injury like air base and that is just the beginning but it helps to explain why most germans now say that turkey should no longer be a member of nato that's right a majority of germans surveyed 58 percent say that turkey should be kicked out of nato there's even stronger german support for ec
america's complicity in turkish denials and ultimately turkey's denials ultimately turkey's denials we're going to see arming itself be safer because the army cannot be safe they bordered by an unrepentant over armed robber traitor of the nile a perpetrator of genocide rather seizing right mr beyond the immediate national committee of america mr burnham we appreciate your time and your insights tonight thank you very much. thank you thank you. paul the united states is not the only nato member...
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turkey's. had a great concern about their border and while the united states of america did not approve of. their military crossing in into syria. we have always indorsed a safe so it was a matter of discussion and negotiations and we believe that. that the kurdish population in syria with which we have a strong relationship will continue to endure. the united states will always be grateful for our partnership with s.d.f. in defeating isis but we recognize the importance and the value. a safe zone to create a buffer between. syria proper in the kurdish population and and the turkish border and we're going to be working very closely so we we think the agreement today 1st ends the violence which is what president trump sent us here to do. i said again and again to the president heard of one is president trump sent us here to end the violence. and achieve an immediate cease fire. and thanks to the agreement that we negotiated today in the strong stand the president took in the preceding days we've
turkey's. had a great concern about their border and while the united states of america did not approve of. their military crossing in into syria. we have always indorsed a safe so it was a matter of discussion and negotiations and we believe that. that the kurdish population in syria with which we have a strong relationship will continue to endure. the united states will always be grateful for our partnership with s.d.f. in defeating isis but we recognize the importance and the value. a safe...
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and certain states and western states and turkey see the p.k. as a terrorist organization but then as your guests in in istanbul in turkey saying that the turkish government sat down with a terrorist organization because i don't think you can reject the truth that the turkish government sat down with the p.k. k. between 20132015 this was the right thing to do because there is absolutely no reason to perpetuate this conflict right now the turkish government took the p.k. k. as the other side of this conflict and sat down and tried to solve this age old question ok now i don't see why i don't think the old discourse and rhetoric holds any water anymore a gentleman in of course as you know another major concern is what will happen to nearly 12000 i saw fighters held by kurdish forces in syria if indeed turkey goes ahead with this operation some 2000 of them are foreign fighters including from france germany and the u.k. but european governments have refused to take them back earlier we spoke to a journalist molly sweeney who recently interviewed pe
and certain states and western states and turkey see the p.k. as a terrorist organization but then as your guests in in istanbul in turkey saying that the turkish government sat down with a terrorist organization because i don't think you can reject the truth that the turkish government sat down with the p.k. k. between 20132015 this was the right thing to do because there is absolutely no reason to perpetuate this conflict right now the turkish government took the p.k. k. as the other side of...
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office in budapest or budapest and in europe now turkey turkey council has a. an office. because they cover kids. found the father more so tunnels are by. i also invited him in might attempt to become their representative leader. turkish cultural. heritage face and the communication between these organizations turkish council organization committee will be. founded 8 summit will be in. turkey hopefully will be hosted by our turkey so our group meeting we couldn't do for 2 weeks so let's not have the latest bather let's do it even if it's on wednesday. during this time all our m.p.v. and general. a central administration as it minister as administrator they were in. there they were together in. their liberations meeting. so this is meeting. hyperbole will set light to our future work. agenda in our parliaments as well there is a very important religious look to what all these works. we'll be carried out by our friends very carefully but but and want to i'd like to even apprentice's here our m.p.'s. i know this but i've been notified that their attendance is weak
office in budapest or budapest and in europe now turkey turkey council has a. an office. because they cover kids. found the father more so tunnels are by. i also invited him in might attempt to become their representative leader. turkish cultural. heritage face and the communication between these organizations turkish council organization committee will be. founded 8 summit will be in. turkey hopefully will be hosted by our turkey so our group meeting we couldn't do for 2 weeks so let's not...
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they faced incredible persecution within turkey. they're not allowed to be able to call themselves kurds. instead, they're called mountain turks in that area. they're not allowed to wear certain garb, not allowed to practice their custom. they're pressed in every area and they've worked for a long time to say, how can we have a free people's area. the kurds that live in northern iraq, it's one of the freest areas in all of the middle east. they have freedom of religion. they have a free capitalist economy that's there, that's a thriving economy in northern iraq. they have democratically-will he had -- led elections. they have an overthrow of saddam hussein after saddam hussein gassed thousands of turks to-- to death in the curdish region. interestingly in you have in 2017, they had the referendum to establish their own place and took a bold move to say the world will not acknowledge us, we will acknowledge ourselves. in a bold referendum in 2017, the kurds voted 90% to form their own country out of northern iraq. and quickly they mo
they faced incredible persecution within turkey. they're not allowed to be able to call themselves kurds. instead, they're called mountain turks in that area. they're not allowed to wear certain garb, not allowed to practice their custom. they're pressed in every area and they've worked for a long time to say, how can we have a free people's area. the kurds that live in northern iraq, it's one of the freest areas in all of the middle east. they have freedom of religion. they have a free...
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turkey and the u.s. have reached a deal to hold turkey's offensive and ne in syria was a great offer u.s. vice president mike pence traveled to turkey's capital for talks with president trichet 5 at the one kurdish fighters have been given 5 days to withdraw from the region where turkey wants to create a so-called safe zone said in a begins our coverage from. which president. they came with an ultimatum and left with a deal a cease fire in arms for northern syria by the u.s. and turkey after hours of talks among the deal how pink patch up relations between the nato allies that have been tested by turkey is a military operation against a wife peachey turkey deems us to incur despite to roup a terrorist organization the united states and turkey have agreed to a cease fire in syria. turkish side will pause operation peace bring you know order to allow for the withdrawal of why p.g. forces from the safe zone. for 120 hours all military operations under operation peace for a movie pause in operation the sprin
turkey and the u.s. have reached a deal to hold turkey's offensive and ne in syria was a great offer u.s. vice president mike pence traveled to turkey's capital for talks with president trichet 5 at the one kurdish fighters have been given 5 days to withdraw from the region where turkey wants to create a so-called safe zone said in a begins our coverage from. which president. they came with an ultimatum and left with a deal a cease fire in arms for northern syria by the u.s. and turkey after...
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syria turkey saudi arabia turkey and the u.a.e. is that fine from a turkish perspective i think i can say that turkey is in the region has for more than 1000 years and he is neighboring facing forward to divest for more than again want doesn't here so i don't say that turkey bill turning to face to russia turn its face to us turkey is towards the space and building care policy in the relationship with the best but the same time in the relation with russia but at the same time we thought not up in relation with all kind of asian countries and middle east thank you that does not mean that there is turning its face completely due to the russia but after the cold war you know that there are many different things that are worse emerging or on a limb as this question to puzzle no with with the russians. interesting the opec plus back 2016 with saudi arabia where they have become very crucial in. controlling the output of oil and the russian using and as you to replace the americans in the middle east. well russia does see itself as a kin
syria turkey saudi arabia turkey and the u.a.e. is that fine from a turkish perspective i think i can say that turkey is in the region has for more than 1000 years and he is neighboring facing forward to divest for more than again want doesn't here so i don't say that turkey bill turning to face to russia turn its face to us turkey is towards the space and building care policy in the relationship with the best but the same time in the relation with russia but at the same time we thought not up...
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again, let me say a week after turkey forces into syria, turkey and the united states of america have agreed to a cease-fire. it will be a pause military operation for 120 hours while the united states facilitate with the withdraw of ypg from the affected area in the safe zone and once that's completed, turkey has agree of a permanent cease-fire and the united states of america will work with turkey and will work with nations around the world to ensure that peace and stability is the order of day in this safe zone on the border between syria and turkey. with that, let me recognize secretary mike pompeo and thank you mr. secretary for your great work. >> thank you. >> i want to add this thought, there obviously remains a great deal of work to do in the region. there is a lot of challenges that remains. this after tonight, conditions for this successful resolution of this particular peace which created a real risk of stability of president erdogan. it will benefit turkey a great deal. thanks, if you want to take some question, vice president pence. >> go right ahead. >> how do you over
again, let me say a week after turkey forces into syria, turkey and the united states of america have agreed to a cease-fire. it will be a pause military operation for 120 hours while the united states facilitate with the withdraw of ypg from the affected area in the safe zone and once that's completed, turkey has agree of a permanent cease-fire and the united states of america will work with turkey and will work with nations around the world to ensure that peace and stability is the order of...
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refugees living in turkey. one monitoring group says that ten civilians have already been killed. the bbc‘s orla guerin is on the turkish—syria border with this report. in syria, a new round of warfare. the town of ras al—ain under heavy bombardment, one of several just inside the border in the kurdish—controlled north—east. it's the start of a turkish offensive that is alarming europe, has been condemned by america and is bringing fresh instability to the middle east. and, once again, syrian civilians forced to flee. a local journalist saw them go. thousands of people migrating to the south side. the turkish army are shelling by mortars everywhere. from across the border in turkey, we could see smoke rising in the town of tal abyad. the bbc understands turkish troops are now on the ground there. well, here at the border, we have been seeing and hearing the opening salvos in turkey's assault on north—eastern syria. in the last half—an—hour or so, we've heard mortar rounds and artillery fire and
refugees living in turkey. one monitoring group says that ten civilians have already been killed. the bbc‘s orla guerin is on the turkish—syria border with this report. in syria, a new round of warfare. the town of ras al—ain under heavy bombardment, one of several just inside the border in the kurdish—controlled north—east. it's the start of a turkish offensive that is alarming europe, has been condemned by america and is bringing fresh instability to the middle east. and, once...
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will turkey has a great military power turkey is a friend of ours a neighbor of ours and they're a member of nato and what turkey is getting now is they're not going to have to kill millions of people and millions of people are going to have to kill them i mean this was going to be a war of lots of other groups coming in this was going to stop with turkey against the kurds a lot of different groups were coming in we might not have been involved i don't want to be involved in that kind of a war and by the way we have the strongest military in the world but we've been there for 10 years we've been in the middle east for 19 in a half years so this was a great thing for everybody and turkey is. i really appreciate what they've done they did the right thing and i have great respect for the president. if you let this go you would have lost millions of lives don't forget your friend president obama lost more than a half a 1000000 lives in a very short period in the same reason region we've lost very little but without that gunfire going back and forth without those rockets going in both directio
will turkey has a great military power turkey is a friend of ours a neighbor of ours and they're a member of nato and what turkey is getting now is they're not going to have to kill millions of people and millions of people are going to have to kill them i mean this was going to be a war of lots of other groups coming in this was going to stop with turkey against the kurds a lot of different groups were coming in we might not have been involved i don't want to be involved in that kind of a war...
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address syria turkey saudi arabia turkey and the u.a.e. is that fine from a turkish perspective i think i can say that turkey is in the region has for more than 1000 years and he is neighboring facing forward to divest for more than again 1000 years so i don't say that turkey veal turning to face to russia turn its face to turkey is toward the space and building policy in the relationship with the best but the same time in the relation with russia but at the same time we thought not up in relation with all kind of asian countries and middle east thank you that does not mean that there is turning its face completely due to the russia but after the cold war you know that there are many different. emergency or on a limit as this question to puzzle no we're with the russians. into the opec plus the 2016 with saudi arabia where they have become very crucial in. controlling the output of oil the russian using and as you to replace the americas in the middle east. well russia does see itself as a kind deaf successor to the soviet union and that d
address syria turkey saudi arabia turkey and the u.a.e. is that fine from a turkish perspective i think i can say that turkey is in the region has for more than 1000 years and he is neighboring facing forward to divest for more than again 1000 years so i don't say that turkey veal turning to face to russia turn its face to turkey is toward the space and building policy in the relationship with the best but the same time in the relation with russia but at the same time we thought not up in...
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were forces from turkey able to get today. well this is just it's a beginning this is the bombardment ahead of the expected ground operation which could start in the coming hours we've seen the turkish jets taking off from air bases all along turkey syrian border pounding syrian kurdish militia bases and also towns of turkey's border we've heard reports that there's been a mass panic in some of these towns reports of civilian casualties and injuries many people are reportedly now leaving the area streams of refugees piling out of these towns that turkey is ahead of what is expected to be a very potentially bloody operation given the fact that the kurdish militia saying they are and fight. today we also has been pounding this area plumes of black smoke have been pouring up into the sky all along to the syrian border but the major operation is expected possibly the next well certainly the next day the ground operation is when the real fighting will start but this is the heart of a very long time operation and one in 2 weeks poss
were forces from turkey able to get today. well this is just it's a beginning this is the bombardment ahead of the expected ground operation which could start in the coming hours we've seen the turkish jets taking off from air bases all along turkey syrian border pounding syrian kurdish militia bases and also towns of turkey's border we've heard reports that there's been a mass panic in some of these towns reports of civilian casualties and injuries many people are reportedly now leaving the...
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actions on the northeast border of c pushed turkey into being a turkey of today. the turkey of today is no longer the secular turkey that was the original member of nato. the turkey of today has an extremist. t's increasingly dictatorial authoritative leader, he has put his own journalists and his own teachers and other civilian in jail repeatedly. he has facilitated through 2012-2014 the iranian nuclear and other programs by going around the blockades and the embargoes and sanctions against ran. he is currently illegally has gas extractions off the coast of yprus. he has purchased the s-400 -- excuse me, from russia, only after which we had to talk him out of purchasing the committee control communication system from the chinese. shall we go on? he dares to come to our capital and unleashes his thugs against protesters who are across the street and push them around and beat them. this is no good buddy of ours that somehow we are responsible for the freeze for the cold air in our relationship. this is a turkey that is not a good ally, full stop. this is a turkey t
actions on the northeast border of c pushed turkey into being a turkey of today. the turkey of today is no longer the secular turkey that was the original member of nato. the turkey of today has an extremist. t's increasingly dictatorial authoritative leader, he has put his own journalists and his own teachers and other civilian in jail repeatedly. he has facilitated through 2012-2014 the iranian nuclear and other programs by going around the blockades and the embargoes and sanctions against...
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and certain states and western states and turkey see the p.k. as a terrorist organization but then as your guests in in istanbul in turkey saying that the turkish government sat down with a terrorist organization because i don't think he can reject the truth that the turkish government sat down with the p.k. k. between 20132015 this was the right thing to do because there is absolutely no reason to perpetuate this conflict right now the turkish government took the p.k. k. as the other side of this conflict and sat down and tried to solve this age old question ok now about why i don't think the old discourse and rhetoric holds any water anymore a gentleman in of course as you know another major concern is what will happen to nearly 12000 i saw fighters held by kurdish forces in syria if indeed turkey goes ahead with this operation some 2000 of them are foreign fighters including from france germany and the u.k. but european governments have refused to take them back earlier we spoke to a journalist molly sweeney who recently interviewed people tr
and certain states and western states and turkey see the p.k. as a terrorist organization but then as your guests in in istanbul in turkey saying that the turkish government sat down with a terrorist organization because i don't think he can reject the truth that the turkish government sat down with the p.k. k. between 20132015 this was the right thing to do because there is absolutely no reason to perpetuate this conflict right now the turkish government took the p.k. k. as the other side of...
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so isis has always been a threat to turkey it carried out attacks in turkey it killed so many people incurred in turkey as well but at the end of the day it's the white p.g. that turkey is prioritizing its mission into so and it was folk who let all these foreign fighters pass through turkey to reach during during the war you also said the syrian opposition to take part in the in the northern syria ok but also speculation one thing is for sure developments in recent weeks have certainly played into the hands of god i'm a poet and as we see. turkish president rate chip air to one needed a favor from russian president putin. turkey a nato partner found itself asking its old bold russia for permission to intervene militarily in northern syria. the images make plain the new balance of power in the region blatta mir putin's russia is now the dominant peacekeeper in syria the agreement between putin and gives a boost to syrian president bashar assad through him putin can secure his position in the region and return assad's getting nearly one 3rd of his territory back while the station's tr
so isis has always been a threat to turkey it carried out attacks in turkey it killed so many people incurred in turkey as well but at the end of the day it's the white p.g. that turkey is prioritizing its mission into so and it was folk who let all these foreign fighters pass through turkey to reach during during the war you also said the syrian opposition to take part in the in the northern syria ok but also speculation one thing is for sure developments in recent weeks have certainly played...
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fighters turned their attention to confront turkey in the chaos. you know you can see isis fighters escaping you know prisoners escaping the group's reassembling and reemerging but i think. the problem of that happening once turkey takes over is not is not necessarily as bad as everyone is making it out to be once turkey takes over those areas they don't want to protect their interests we may disagree with those interests are but the turkish military is not allow isis fighters to roam around among them the story of isis and turkish. you know cooperation or quote really was as it's worse in there in the early times of 201-220-1320 extension 14 when turkey was turning a blind eye to isis fighters were fighting the kurds but certainly i don't see them allowing them to roam free in areas once we take over. osman in istanbul what will happen to these i saw a fight is currently being held by the kurds the american seem to suggest that if turkey goes in and goes ahead with this military operation then they will be responsible for these i feel fight is. ex
fighters turned their attention to confront turkey in the chaos. you know you can see isis fighters escaping you know prisoners escaping the group's reassembling and reemerging but i think. the problem of that happening once turkey takes over is not is not necessarily as bad as everyone is making it out to be once turkey takes over those areas they don't want to protect their interests we may disagree with those interests are but the turkish military is not allow isis fighters to roam around...
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/turkey relations. before we talk about the current state of affairs in syria, it's important to recall the path that brought us here. to begin, the syrian civil war is a complex, multisided conflict that has drawn in russia, iran, the u.s., nato allies, and other entities. over the course of this eight-year-long conflict, syria's brutal dictator, ai bar shal ai said, with the support of russia and iran, has relentlessly bombed cities and towns across syria, resulting in over 500,000 deaths and leaving over 10 million people displaced. we are all aware that many confirmed uses of chemical weapons by the russia-backed assad regime, adding to the humanitarian suffering in violations of international law. the syrian, russian, and iranian regimes now hope to build upon the successful defeat of the defl see cleared islamic caliphate. these are the circumstances we find ourselves in today. beginning in 2011, the islamic state took full advantage in the chaos in syria to gather its strength. the group's ascend
/turkey relations. before we talk about the current state of affairs in syria, it's important to recall the path that brought us here. to begin, the syrian civil war is a complex, multisided conflict that has drawn in russia, iran, the u.s., nato allies, and other entities. over the course of this eight-year-long conflict, syria's brutal dictator, ai bar shal ai said, with the support of russia and iran, has relentlessly bombed cities and towns across syria, resulting in over 500,000 deaths and...
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in this region at the moment so a very difficult situation for turkey because turkey is original plans of securing the border well damascus will say that has been achieved but beyond that their ideas of resettling millions of syrian refugees that are far from clear now well that will be able to occur ok during we want to take a broader look now about the fighting and how it's not only affecting northern syria but i was also spilling over into turkey our correspondent yulia han has this report on turkish towns that have also been hit by the fighting. in the turkish border town of. the public outpouring of grief. the women mourn the death of their village. and 2 other men were killed in a mortar shelling an apparent repairable attack from across the border into syria. from a sunni we want this war to start nobody should die no soldiers no civilians we just want peace. of course we're scared we're scared the whole country turks are hurt for everyone no one building. and you are never. heard people showing where the victims died. within a radius of 20 meters traces of bomb fragments. windo
in this region at the moment so a very difficult situation for turkey because turkey is original plans of securing the border well damascus will say that has been achieved but beyond that their ideas of resettling millions of syrian refugees that are far from clear now well that will be able to occur ok during we want to take a broader look now about the fighting and how it's not only affecting northern syria but i was also spilling over into turkey our correspondent yulia han has this report...
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we also expect turkey to abide by its commitment regarding isis. as a backup to the kurds watching over them, should something happen, turkey is there to grab them. further, we implore european countries to come and take those fighters that the u.s. captured and bring them back to their countries for incarceration and for trial. until just recently, europe has been very unresponsive in doing what they should have been doing for a long time. now is their chance to finally act. american forces defeated 100% of the isis caliphate during the last two years. we thank the syrian democratic forces for their sacrifices in this effort. they've been terrific. now, turkey, syria, and others in the region must work to ensure that isis does not regain any territory. it's their neighborhood. they have to maintain it. they have to take care of it. there were some political pundits who responded to turkey's offensive in syria by calling for yet another american military intervention. i don't think so. but halting the incursion by military force would have required
we also expect turkey to abide by its commitment regarding isis. as a backup to the kurds watching over them, should something happen, turkey is there to grab them. further, we implore european countries to come and take those fighters that the u.s. captured and bring them back to their countries for incarceration and for trial. until just recently, europe has been very unresponsive in doing what they should have been doing for a long time. now is their chance to finally act. american forces...
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someone from turkey. when did that occur? outlining that authority? not just to provide assistance or counter isis. my point here in all of this is this. if you want to support action in make your case for what you want to see. take the time to do what is in our lane. have the stones to outline when we reach mission accomplished. if you are worried about the ,ignals that might be spent send a clear signal from congress about what it is we authorize. not just through state but specifically militarily. will this body, as some people , workxpressed support for aumf.ward an >> i think congress has been .egligent the aumf is now being used as a catchall to allow any administration to do what they want. it is something they need to put by the wayside. quite frankly, you know as well as i do, it is very difficult to get consensus to find that middle. to ask it again. will we in this committee work to authorize an aumf. knifee with you, that cuts both ways. >> if you would like to work with us, i would like to de
someone from turkey. when did that occur? outlining that authority? not just to provide assistance or counter isis. my point here in all of this is this. if you want to support action in make your case for what you want to see. take the time to do what is in our lane. have the stones to outline when we reach mission accomplished. if you are worried about the ,ignals that might be spent send a clear signal from congress about what it is we authorize. not just through state but specifically...
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all segments of the turkish society meet on the same ground because it turkey as a state turkey has fought against the p.k. k. for almost 4 decades more than 3 decades and it cost iran $40000.00 lives both from the turkish military side and the a kurdish citizens who have joined the p.k. k. so far so this is a long story for cherokee economically turkey has been very hurt by the fight against the p.k. k. during those last decades and that's why it is seen as legitimate by the turkish public of course the the motive of the military oprah while the motive often minutes for operation is officiated.
all segments of the turkish society meet on the same ground because it turkey as a state turkey has fought against the p.k. k. for almost 4 decades more than 3 decades and it cost iran $40000.00 lives both from the turkish military side and the a kurdish citizens who have joined the p.k. k. so far so this is a long story for cherokee economically turkey has been very hurt by the fight against the p.k. k. during those last decades and that's why it is seen as legitimate by the turkish public of...
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from or also maybe we should talk about the demographic changes in turkey is on towns because turkey now. sometimes the majority is actually syrians so of course it would be terrible if turkey attempted to change the demographic what is the turkish military strategy is here what do you think the aim is here with the we heard earlier from the turkish foreign minister who says the 1st stage of this military operation is to create a safe zone going 30 kilometers deep but ultimately what is turkey trying to achieve about turkey is try to make sure that there is not a presence along its borders and that the not establish terrorist states with proximity to churches borders that's what turkey aims to do. what do you think the options are for the s.d.f. strategically what will they be doing going forward now that this operation has gone underway but it also depends on turkey's course of action right now of course in the initial phase of the operation turkey is targeting the area between tel aviv that racial line and as a matter of fact if you are live in this area there is a predominant the
from or also maybe we should talk about the demographic changes in turkey is on towns because turkey now. sometimes the majority is actually syrians so of course it would be terrible if turkey attempted to change the demographic what is the turkish military strategy is here what do you think the aim is here with the we heard earlier from the turkish foreign minister who says the 1st stage of this military operation is to create a safe zone going 30 kilometers deep but ultimately what is turkey...
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turkey has been fighting with kurdish militia in turkey for over 30 years. they are being —— they have been clashes, it has been lodging attacks targeting civilians as well. and it is considered as a terrorist organisation by turkey as well as the united states and european union considers it as a terrorist organisation as well. and by pg on the other side of the border is the main body of syrian democratic forces and turkey says that it has connection with pkk, it provides a safe haven for militants and thus weight poses a threat to national security and the turkish government has a security and the turkish government hasa main security and the turkish government has a main claim for this operation. there are all kinds of regional applications as we have been hearing and concerns, if turkey is successful, it will benefit turkey but it will also benefit russia. successful, it will benefit turkey but it will also benefit russiam will benefit the assigning state group. what is the feeling about all this within turkey? when we talk about pkk and the fight a
turkey has been fighting with kurdish militia in turkey for over 30 years. they are being —— they have been clashes, it has been lodging attacks targeting civilians as well. and it is considered as a terrorist organisation by turkey as well as the united states and european union considers it as a terrorist organisation as well. and by pg on the other side of the border is the main body of syrian democratic forces and turkey says that it has connection with pkk, it provides a safe haven for...
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news longer from berlin tonight natives dilemma what to do about turkey what to do about turkey and russia as nato headquarters defense ministers are faced with one of their own turkey suddenly patrolling northern syria together with a nato adversary russia can the alliance endure this major test of its unity also coming up tonight the european union's human rights prize for goes to deal homs for his work defending china's rieger minority will speak to his daughter.
news longer from berlin tonight natives dilemma what to do about turkey what to do about turkey and russia as nato headquarters defense ministers are faced with one of their own turkey suddenly patrolling northern syria together with a nato adversary russia can the alliance endure this major test of its unity also coming up tonight the european union's human rights prize for goes to deal homs for his work defending china's rieger minority will speak to his daughter.
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all segments of the turkish society meet on the same ground because it turkey and as a state turkey has fought against the p.k. k. for almost 4 decades more than 3 decades and it cost around $40000.00 lives both from the turkish military side and the kurdish citizens who have joined the p.k. k. so far so this is a long story for cherokee economically turkey has been very hurt by the fight against the p.k. k. during those last decades and that's why in a seen as legitimate by the turkish public of course the the motive of the military oprah while the motive of the military operation is officiated by almost everyone including the opposition the way how the military operation is going to be conducted was going to be conducted was questioned by the opposition or the supporters of the government because. there were some parties even inside military who were against the military operations so deep like 30 kilometers or more inside north is than syria so immortal wise yes it is it is accepted and perceived well by almost every segment of the society but of course how the military operation wil
all segments of the turkish society meet on the same ground because it turkey and as a state turkey has fought against the p.k. k. for almost 4 decades more than 3 decades and it cost around $40000.00 lives both from the turkish military side and the kurdish citizens who have joined the p.k. k. so far so this is a long story for cherokee economically turkey has been very hurt by the fight against the p.k. k. during those last decades and that's why in a seen as legitimate by the turkish public...
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look up and very candid about this turkey put us all in a very terrible situation the direction of turkey with regard the alliance is heading in the wrong direction. on any number of issues we see them spinning closer to russia's orbit there is a new situation in terms of explaining ourselves and being understood remotely as we see differences when the comes to the situation in northeast serial i think in prison early on that was fixated on making this incursion now to them we share the values and missions of nato we completely abide by nato his concept of defense at the moment we. also coming up at 39 chinese men and women found dead in the back of a truck outside of london police suspect human traffickers are to blame tonight you'll hear from a man whose life was once in the hands of traffickers he was lucky he lived to tell about the traffic is all ripping that game in scenes of how they're actually accessing getting into vehicles and bringing my migrants 3 you know the trafficking there was simply not enough being done in terms of security. and so you our viewers on p.b.s. in the unit
look up and very candid about this turkey put us all in a very terrible situation the direction of turkey with regard the alliance is heading in the wrong direction. on any number of issues we see them spinning closer to russia's orbit there is a new situation in terms of explaining ourselves and being understood remotely as we see differences when the comes to the situation in northeast serial i think in prison early on that was fixated on making this incursion now to them we share the values...
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spent a lot of time in turkey in 2013. look, i love the country of turkey. turkey.great erdogan is the leader of turkey but he's not going to be there turkey has a think brighter future but let me tell you about these conversations in 2013. why was i in turkey a lot in 2013? reasons, one of which was iraqi oil revenue from iraqi kurd stan was going into the halt a k, and that might be concern for u.s. officials. we used to discuss that quit a bit with the turks. look, all of these jihadists are coming in through are you goingwhat to do about this? the answer was that's the second war. of assad and then those guys. my response was it sounds to me ike you're raising baby crocodiles in your basement. eventually you're going to have a lot of big crocodiles. in any event this kept on going, and mike's document is awesome, should read it, this war against isis was a vicious, brutal street by street war. and no one should be mistaken by that. 2014, fallujah falls to isis. fall of until the mosul and i was in iraq at the just and again, it was hard to know what was
spent a lot of time in turkey in 2013. look, i love the country of turkey. turkey.great erdogan is the leader of turkey but he's not going to be there turkey has a think brighter future but let me tell you about these conversations in 2013. why was i in turkey a lot in 2013? reasons, one of which was iraqi oil revenue from iraqi kurd stan was going into the halt a k, and that might be concern for u.s. officials. we used to discuss that quit a bit with the turks. look, all of these jihadists are...
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promised turkey 6000000000 euros to essentially help limit the flow of refugees out of turkey toward greece all of that less than half has been paid out although the deal has been in place for several years now so i think it's fairly clear that that is what turkey wants and it sounds pretty clear that that also is what the e.u. is prepared to give the dorrian the money seems to be at the heart of this dispute at present the tickets president don has tried to do what he calls open the floodgates if he doesn't get more funding couldn't see a repeat of 2015 and see a massive flow of refugees refugees coming into the e.u. well yes i definitely aris because it isn't just about money turkey is facing a massive problem of refugees itself it's the president is well aware that turkey talks patience is false running out he needs a part of the solution himself and that is why he's looking for backing from europe and the west to relocate a 1000000 possibly 2000000 syrian refugees to northeast syria in an area are controlled by syrian kodesh militia considers its terrorist turkish forces already
promised turkey 6000000000 euros to essentially help limit the flow of refugees out of turkey toward greece all of that less than half has been paid out although the deal has been in place for several years now so i think it's fairly clear that that is what turkey wants and it sounds pretty clear that that also is what the e.u. is prepared to give the dorrian the money seems to be at the heart of this dispute at present the tickets president don has tried to do what he calls open the floodgates...
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in syria, and came to turkey, and started to live in turkey. so from 2011 to 2014 or 2015, turkey heavily supported the islamist groups, and turkey would turn a blind eye to the islamic state within its borders and so turkey played a key role in the islamization, and jihadization in turkey and syria, and this is an indication of what erdogan was doing at home, and in his mind it made perfect sense, because the dpr uprisings, the islamist ideals were coming to fruition. he saw the arab uprisings as a opportunity for turkey to become the leader of the muslim world. but his islamization project hit a roadblock in 2015 and that is when he turned to nationalism. so in 2015, in june of 2015, elections for the first time in many years, through the akp lost the parliamentary majority, and that is thanks for the pro-turkish party which captured a historic 13% in national elections. and that denied the ruling party the parliamentary majority. that is when president erdogan switched to nationalism. he decided to ally with the turkish nationalists, and the
in syria, and came to turkey, and started to live in turkey. so from 2011 to 2014 or 2015, turkey heavily supported the islamist groups, and turkey would turn a blind eye to the islamic state within its borders and so turkey played a key role in the islamization, and jihadization in turkey and syria, and this is an indication of what erdogan was doing at home, and in his mind it made perfect sense, because the dpr uprisings, the islamist ideals were coming to fruition. he saw the arab uprisings...
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state along turkey's border which is very frightening to turkey so in the turkish mind western media coverage of turkey's military incursion which is largely a pro kurdish is just the latest indication that that the western world does not understand turkey's security concerns. we conducted 4 interviews on the narratives driving the coverage of this story with turkish academics based in washington both are frequent critics of the early one government although one of them says the incursion into syria is justifiable we also spoke with an iranian american journalist working out of this town hall for a british newspaper and journalist academic and iraqi kurd now based in pennsylvania. the turkish government has really had a very monumental task crafting a narrative that would be convincing to the world public opinion and also to the international sort of power circles the narrative is really focused on fighting terrorism we said we would never allow a terror corridor or to form on our border the other element of this narrative is really centered on the refugee crisis governments are real
state along turkey's border which is very frightening to turkey so in the turkish mind western media coverage of turkey's military incursion which is largely a pro kurdish is just the latest indication that that the western world does not understand turkey's security concerns. we conducted 4 interviews on the narratives driving the coverage of this story with turkish academics based in washington both are frequent critics of the early one government although one of them says the incursion into...
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other countries apart from turkey only resettled about 330000 syrian refugees from turkey so the point is turkey needs to protect the syrian population within its territory and other countries especially in europe need to bring some of those syrian refugees to safety a machete from amnesty international thank you very much for coming in this brief you know some of the other stories making the news today wildfires in southern california forced 50000 people from their homes the area's also been experiencing power outages utility companies are preparing for a massive shutdown this weekend mysterious high winds could knock down power lines and worsen the situation. living as president a former all of us has declared himself winner of the country's presidential election. official results narrowly gave him a 10 point lead necessary to win outright his main rival carlos mesa has led days of protests claiming the count was raked european union is backing calls from election observers for a runoff vote. the u.k.'s prime minister boris johnson wants an early general election on december 12th he
other countries apart from turkey only resettled about 330000 syrian refugees from turkey so the point is turkey needs to protect the syrian population within its territory and other countries especially in europe need to bring some of those syrian refugees to safety a machete from amnesty international thank you very much for coming in this brief you know some of the other stories making the news today wildfires in southern california forced 50000 people from their homes the area's also been...
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-turkey relations. before we talk about the current state of affairs in syria, it is important to recall the path that brought us here. the syrian civil war is a complex, multisided conflict that has drawn in russia, iran, the u.s., nato allies and other entities. over the course of this eight-year conflict, the syrian dictator with the support of russia and iran has bombed towns and cities across syria, resulting in 500,000 deaths and leaving 10 million people displaced. we are all aware of confirmed use of chemical weapons by the regime incked assad violation of international law. syrian, russian and iranian regimes hope to tilde upon the successful defeat of the islamic northeast syria. these are circumstances we find ourselves in today. beginning in 2011, the islamic state took full advantage of the chaos in syria to gather 2014 -- gather strength. into14, isis spilled over iraq, captured territory and declared its caliphate. as iraqi watched soldiers were marched to mass graves, women and children
-turkey relations. before we talk about the current state of affairs in syria, it is important to recall the path that brought us here. the syrian civil war is a complex, multisided conflict that has drawn in russia, iran, the u.s., nato allies and other entities. over the course of this eight-year conflict, the syrian dictator with the support of russia and iran has bombed towns and cities across syria, resulting in 500,000 deaths and leaving 10 million people displaced. we are all aware of...
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to help him and and yes there is the turkey e.u. deal but of course all of the e.u. countries are extremely skeptical if not against the safe zone they've already said they want turkey to stop the military operations but at the same time at the moment i don't see anyone in the e.u. investing so what i don't want because who's going to finance. well i'm not so sure about that who's going to do is going to invest in these areas who's going to live there it has to be there has to be. you know according to. confirm ash residents have to run has frightened to open the floodgates for as he puts it some open the gates as he said it more neutrally for a few jews moving to europe and that could intensify he did that of course it could intensify of course there should be a plan for each and turkish to sit down and think of a plan how they want to take care of this the refugee crisis but that does not automatically mean that he is going to say ok well we agree on this inhumane way of finding a solution moving people to maybe even where they don't belong it's a very complex issu
to help him and and yes there is the turkey e.u. deal but of course all of the e.u. countries are extremely skeptical if not against the safe zone they've already said they want turkey to stop the military operations but at the same time at the moment i don't see anyone in the e.u. investing so what i don't want because who's going to finance. well i'm not so sure about that who's going to do is going to invest in these areas who's going to live there it has to be there has to be. you know...
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president donald trump has approved a series of sanctions on turkey he's also calling for an immediate cease fire in northern syria where turkish forces are carrying out a military offensive in kurdish held areas on the ground in syria a group of government soldiers has entered the strategic city of man bitch day after being invited in by kurdish forces but this sets up a potential clash with turkish forces who are stationed on the outskirts. and polls opened in mozambique's general election that could see the from party extend its decades long rule the votes taking place 2 months after the signing of a peace deal with a longtime rival the nama party president and you see seeking a 2nd term. now days 4 people have been killed in anti-government demonstrations in guinea there's widespread anger at a proposed change in the constitution that would allow veteran president alpha condé to run for a 3rd term as there was no reports now from the capital conakry. gunfire in downtown conakry. frightened residents have locked himself indoors taking cover from guinea's paramilitary forces who are
president donald trump has approved a series of sanctions on turkey he's also calling for an immediate cease fire in northern syria where turkish forces are carrying out a military offensive in kurdish held areas on the ground in syria a group of government soldiers has entered the strategic city of man bitch day after being invited in by kurdish forces but this sets up a potential clash with turkish forces who are stationed on the outskirts. and polls opened in mozambique's general election...
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refugees who are currently inside turkey and the turkish foreign minister saying that turkey is using its legitimate rights and is acting within the scope of international law during this operation and that turkey is respectful of syria's territorial integrity he also said that great precaution is being taken to avoid civilian casualties now this address by the turkish foreign minister coming just about an hour after turkey's president wants to party members in ankara also defending the turkish operation which has come under a great deal of international criticism recep tayyip erdogan saying earlier that no power can stop the turkish offensive in syria until it reaches its goals let's bring in our correspondent now in istanbul sin and who's been listening in sin him so the turkish foreign minister here briefing members of parliament i understand and we heard a very defiant tone earlier from president to one clearly turkey is intent on pushing ahead with this operation. yes exactly fully turkish officials have been stating the sosa beginning of the operation that they're determined to
refugees who are currently inside turkey and the turkish foreign minister saying that turkey is using its legitimate rights and is acting within the scope of international law during this operation and that turkey is respectful of syria's territorial integrity he also said that great precaution is being taken to avoid civilian casualties now this address by the turkish foreign minister coming just about an hour after turkey's president wants to party members in ankara also defending the turkish...
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he is a close ally and he's working with turkey and relying on turkey's economy so that means turkey is not genuine. it doesn't necessarily mean that, it means that turkey and iraq may be different. let's be clear at this point, clearly, we kurds, pyd and all the kurdish political movement, in syria, we are a syrian, we have our own relationship, we have equal relationship with kdp, kurdish regional government, we have the same kurdish talibani and barzani and we consider all of the other kurdish political parties and different parts of iraq, iran, turkey, as kurdish movements. mr semo, here are some facts. the facts are that the ypg that is the military wing of your own party, the ypg group inside kurdish syria has in the past unfurled banners and posters during its operations, abdullah 0calan, the imprisoned founder of the pkk. here is another fact, of the director of national intelligence in the united states back in 2018 said of your ypg, he said, "the ypg is a syrian militia wing of the kurdistan workers party, that is the pkk." the united states regards the ypg as a terrorist o
he is a close ally and he's working with turkey and relying on turkey's economy so that means turkey is not genuine. it doesn't necessarily mean that, it means that turkey and iraq may be different. let's be clear at this point, clearly, we kurds, pyd and all the kurdish political movement, in syria, we are a syrian, we have our own relationship, we have equal relationship with kdp, kurdish regional government, we have the same kurdish talibani and barzani and we consider all of the other...
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turkey seems to suing her despite to root a terrorist organization the united states and turkey have agreed to a cease fire in syria. the turkish side will pause operation peace bring in order to allow for the withdrawal of why p.g. forces from the safe zone. for 120 hours all military operations under operation peace spring will be pause in operation the spring will be halted entirely on completion of the withdrawal. the agreement promises collection of why p.g. have appends and the disabling of their fortifications and all other fighting positions they will have to withdraw from in a reactor that is 32 kilometers deep expected to eventually become a safe zone that turkey has sowed for months the us is still committed to cooperate with the syrian democratic forces made up mainly of kurdish why peachey even though they're no longer aiding them militarily and the cease fire means it will not impose sanctions on turkey which i'm very happy to report tremendous success with respect to turkey and i want to thank president or was and i want to thank our vice president my parents our secre
turkey seems to suing her despite to root a terrorist organization the united states and turkey have agreed to a cease fire in syria. the turkish side will pause operation peace bring in order to allow for the withdrawal of why p.g. forces from the safe zone. for 120 hours all military operations under operation peace spring will be pause in operation the spring will be halted entirely on completion of the withdrawal. the agreement promises collection of why p.g. have appends and the disabling...
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well more now on the international fallout of that operation by turkey in northeastern syria there's been a worldwide protests against the decision of the turkish government this was a scene in the french capital paris where turkish troops accuse the u.s. of the trail kurdish fighters have been america's main allies on the ground in syria in the battle against isis. there were protests also in germany. thousands of people demonstrated in the capital berlin germany has one of the biggest kurdish populations in europe. bill bennett smith spoke to some demonstrators in edit bill in iraq semi autonomous kurdish region. a little love lost here between the kurds in this part of northern iraq kurdish controlled parts of northern iraq and the turkish authorities the crowd has been chanting one terrorist or one terrorist and there is also a real feeling here of betrayal by the americans the kurds here saying that one day they are leading the fight with the americans against eisel and then the next day it's been about. this fire. like i said. you 1st. lady. were you surprised by what the ameri
well more now on the international fallout of that operation by turkey in northeastern syria there's been a worldwide protests against the decision of the turkish government this was a scene in the french capital paris where turkish troops accuse the u.s. of the trail kurdish fighters have been america's main allies on the ground in syria in the battle against isis. there were protests also in germany. thousands of people demonstrated in the capital berlin germany has one of the biggest kurdish...