enhanced security provided by nato. but all 30 nato members must agree on admitting any new nation to the alliance, and turkey has been the lone member to voice opposition to finland and sweden. president recep tayyip erdogan accused both countries of harboring kurdish separatists that turkey considers terrorists. he said he can t support nato membership for either until the issue is addressed. but president biden brushed off concerns turkey will end up blocking finland and sweden from joining nato. here s what he said on wednesday. both the leader of finland and sweden are coming to see me on thursday. i think we re going to be okay. you can convince turkey to accept their bid? i think i am not going to turkey, but i think we re going to be okay. so let s bring in cnn s nina dos santos. she joins us live from stockholm. great to see you, nina.
harboring kurdish separatists. president biden says he s optimistic that turkey s problems can be resolved. both the leader of finland and sweden are coming to see me on thursday. i think we will be okay. you can convince turkey to press their bid? i m not going to turkey, but i think we re going to be okay. still too close to call in the race for the republican nomination for a senate seat in pennsylvania. it could be days before a winner is own. dr. oz has a razor thin lead over a former hedge fund leader dave mccormick. but donald trump urging him not to wait for the official results. just go out and declare victory anyway. over time in pennsylvania, dave mccormick
general of nato wrangles this isn t clear. when you re look agent this as well, when you watch what erdogan says, he s playing to domestic constituency to nato for leverage for what he may want to get. he says the sweets have homes for terror organizers. he s talking about the kurdish separatists. you know, who won a chunk of turkey. some of them live in sweden. that s what he s talking about. is there a quid pro quo? and on top of that, when erdogan speaks, he s also speaking to russia. he s signaling to putin that he s not happy with this move. and he also wants this to be the mediator between russia and ukraine at the moment. so i think with erdogan, there s a bunch of stuff going on. it s a wrinkle, at this moment it seems it can be worked out. a wild card. he s also been providing ukraine with those really effective drones that they ve been using against russian forces throughout this war as well. nic robertson, thank you as
about three weeks since major combat operations came to an end here, but still we re seeing turkish forces who were embedded with today carrying out clearance operations. they re sweeping areas and sweeping them multiple times checking for explosives, for devices that have been left, and we are told by turkish officials that they re finding explosives on a daily basis and diffusing them, anywhere between 10 to 100 devices on a daily basis according to a senior turkish official. and just a short time ago a car obama, we re told, exploded in the center of the town of telabia. this coming a few days after that devastating car bomb attack took place at a marketplace, a civilian area where at least 19 people were killed in that attack on saturday. now, no one claimed that attack, but turkey blames kurdish
tell us what s happening. reporter: well, for more alisyn on that raid, senior turkish official is telling us that baghdadi s sister was captured along with her husband and a daughter-in-law. they were captured in northern syria in a housing container, and now they are basically turkish authorities are interrogating them, and as you mentioned, they believe that this could potentially be an intelligence gold mine. they re hoping to get insights into how isis operates, it s something that would help turkey and europe understand the threat that is caused by isis. isis does remain a serious threat for turkey. another threat, officials say is kurdish separatists, syrian kurdish fighters who up until recently were operating in this area. we as you recall this was one of the locations that saw some seriously intense fighting when that turkish offensive began on october the 9th, and it s been