a joyful celebration of the departed i believe to come back to visit that. i m still get a welcome to the program turkey and russia have launched joint to ground patrols in northeastern syria the operations part of a deal struck between the 2 countries to force kurdish fighters out of the territory and their turkish border military vehicles of the children attend commom to deep zone along the border marking a major power shift in syria a month after u.s. president trump withdrew his country s forces from the region. so let s get the latest from d.w. our correspondent dorian jones in istanbul welcome dorian what is the purpose of these patrols. well these patrols are a key part of why did sign up this agreement with moscow there s