Transcripts For CSPAN2 20170529

So, the defining event in russian turkish relations is the warnings area. Russia and turkey support different times. Russias support the regime, damascus. Turkey is strongly supportive of sunni era jihadist groups that are fighting against the regime. That is really the starting point for answering your question. That is Pretty Simple to understand. It gets more complicated, however, specially the events of november 24, 2015 when they shot down a russian fighter plane. Its not clear whether russian fighter plane was when it was shot down out of the sky. But that event dictated a huge chasm in russian turkish relations. Russia launched a systematic set of sanctions against travel to turkey, against the import of turkish agricultural goods, against turkish construction firms who are doing business in russia. This cut deeply into turkeys economy, which is already struggling. And those sanctions stayed in place for nine months. Then, rather remarkably and an addict to bleed, erdogan issued a letter of apology to the piloting chrome into st. Petersburg on august 9 to meet with putin. As a result of that meeting, there is a decision taken to lift sanctions to move quickly to normalize relations between russia and turkey. As turkey back to way from sunni arab extremists, they sought Common Ground with fresh affair. Part of that was also Common Ground against the united state. We talked about the personality dimension. The temperaments of putin and erdogan are remarkably similar. They are cut out of the same laws. They had a deep and dark falling out, but they also are transactional in their approach to business and to one another. They like to make deals. I would also include President Trump in that character page, defamation. Tonight we have Mary Jennings hegar, shoot like a girl details her time serving in afghanistan. Enter fight to eliminate theem policy which kept him out of Armed Service members have officially serving combat roles. She now lives here in austin with her family and works as ann executive coach and oliphant and gives back to her alma mater by mentoring cadets in guest lecturing at the university of c texas. She continues to write about her experiences in the military and fight for increased militaryin effect to mr. Quali