there is another more controversial element. erdogan wants to take part. probably near half of the 6.5 syrian refugees who are currently sheltering within turkey and put them back into syria within this peace corridor. of course most of them are syrian arabs, not syrian kurds. that s why you keep hearing this ethnic cleansing being bantered around. we have several of my colleagues throughout the region. we will be checking in with them throughout the next couple hours. thank you very much, matt. appreciate the reporting. pete dominic is comedian and radio host. katie. and the host of the takeaway on public radio international. with us from washington covers the washington for the daily beast . i will pivot to talk about the latest on the impeachment investigation. it is something president trump addressed at a big bearing of social conservatives in washington, d.c.
members. these aren t the isis-hardened criminals and terrorists who are also held in camps. they are women and children. it looks as though they either took advantage of the security vacuum that was left by members of the kurdish fighting group, sdf, rushing to the front lines to fight off the invading turkish military and syrian allies, or it was coordinated between the turks and their syrian allies and the isis elements that were inside this camp. depending on who you would ask, it would seem as though this is more of an opportunistic thing. where they attacked some of the few remaining sdf guards left in this camp in northeastern syria and tried to break out. phourbgs the kurds will tell you this was coordinated, the turks know people within islamic state and they coordinated this prison riot in order for a massive
this point? there was a lot of concern about the attack on the u.s. fortification just a couple of days ago. the turks adding that was app accident. some suggesting they intend to push further into this territory. what do we know about turkeys plans going forward? reporter: well, i don t know if you have a map up, david. if you just look at it, basically erdogan wants a peace corridor. that would stretch 20 miles into syria from turkey. and it would be something like 300 miles long. now, the whole idea behind is this two-fold. he wants to push the kurds, who he considers terrorists. they have long launched terror attacks against turkish civilians. he wants to push them away from the border. he considered the syrian kurds the same as turkish kurds, and he thinks they are all terrorists.