attacks from neighboring turkey over the course of the syrian war the kurdish why p.g. managed to gain control over a large area bordering with turkey and fight back these lawmakers state. sees the group as a terrorist organization due to their ties to turkey s outlawed kurdistan workers party p k k. however the kurds have been fighting tooth and nail against islamic states alongside u.s. troops the kurds now fear being abandoned by a u.s. withdrawal and so too do many of the u.s. allies in the region. enter john bolton u.s. national security adviser he s jetting around the middle east clarifying confusion putting out the fire the trump started his message the u.s. isn t simply packing up and leaving in december trump told the pentagon to prepare to leave syria within one hundred days now he s changed his mind we are pulling back in syria we re going to be removing our group i never said we re doing it that
using here you have to know there are about a couple of thousands of kurdish fighters inside and around africa but also hundreds of thousands of civilians including displaced families from other war ravaged areas in syria and for them the next days are going to be probably anything but safe. turkish president or one has vowed to flush out what he describes as terrorists who are a kurdish enclave in northern syria why do kurdish groups post such a threat to turkey well to keep a long story short turkey consider is the syrian kurdish groups terrorist groups with links to the banned kurdistan workers party the p k k that has waged a decades long fight inside turkey and ankara specially fia s the creation of a kurdish corydoras along its border inside syria and fears that this could further inspire a separatist notions within turkey s kurdish community. the u.s.
and russia are calling on court to stop the operation in northern syria isn t turkey isolating itself by pushing ahead. well this operation is definitely going to complicate relations with both washington and moscow just to highlight the complexity of these old you have to know that turkey a nato ally is now bombing a kurdish groups inside syria that the u.s. on the other hand considers its most important ally in their fight against the so-called islamic state group and russia on the other hand the strongest supporter of syrian president bashar al assad is controlling the end space of both offerings and the russians have now said they will demand in the united nations turkey to stop this oh peroration so we re going to see if turkey really is is backing down or is continuing no matter what you leon thank you very much
pounding kurdish positions in africa and that targeting the y. page a militia which is backed by the us. took his tanks have been shelling the kurdish controlled syrian on clay and fighter jets have been bombing from the sky and chris says the y. page a is a syrian army of the kurdish workers party opaque. it considers that a terror group. could just on workers party and the why p.g. in syria they couldn t stand worker s party is on the terror list of the us and the e.u. the organization that works within syria is exactly the sign. that the syrian operation doesn t come without risks for turkey of a not sever rockets from syria landed in a turkish border city one person has been reported wounded as turkey escalates its involvement in syria the dangers for civilians grow on both sides of the border.
essentially could also harm the s.p.d. and that s obviously why the pressure is so high not only for i m going to michael but also for the conservatives on the social democrats in general to try and form that grand coalition thomas sparrow and don thanks very much. for the kurdish why p.g. militia in syria says it has forced back turkish troops trying to enter the northwestern region of afrin turkey s military announced it has so far struck one hundred fifty three kurdish militia targets in the region it s part of an offensive and calls operation all of branch but it threatens to further inflame the nearly seven year old conflict in syria turkey civilians cheering on the tanks headed towards the syrian border. many support and kurds light is military operation dubbed olive branch. he s inside of turkey why shouldn t we be placed. take his air and ground forces have been