Crashing down across the alps cutting off ski resorts and leaving holiday makers struck. With. A welcome to the Program Turkey has intensified its military offensive against Kurdish Militias in Northern Syria despite calls from the International Community for restraint and perhaps promise that it will press on with itself for asian and african against groups that it regards as terrorists. Operation all of branch is anything but a peace offering the following airstrikes the Turkish Military with the support of regional allies is marching across the border into Northern Syria turkeys president has pledged an unrelenting campaign against the Syrian Kurdish militia which he considers a terrorist group. Will handle a free and theres no stepping back we have an agreement with our russian friends kind of also discuss that with the u. S. And other coalition forces. I mean its the attacks russia has pulled back its Ground Troops from the region to avoid accidental clashes experts say turkey is
Good afternoon everyone. My name is alex cooley, director of the Harriman Institute here at columbia university. It is my great pleasure to introduce todays speaker, david phillips, who is the director of the program on peace building and rights at Columbia Institute for the study of human rights for a talk about his new book, an uncertain ally turkey under erdogans dictatorship. David has long experience in both academic and policy settings. He has been advisor to three president s and the state department. He is also as a Senior Advisor to United Nations office for the coronation of humanitarian affairs. In his own scholarship he has written on numerous topics but books on iraq, a book on turkish armenian reconciliation and of course years of practice in various levels of track two as well as formal diplomacy. So the way were going to proceed to date is ill engage in some discussion with david over the key arguments in parts of the book, then we will open it up to questions and answe
Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening. Thanks for joining us. The United States is calling on russia to discuss a political settlement to the fourandhalf yearold Syrian Civil War. The u. S. Wants syrian president Bashar Alassad to be replaced, but russia supports assad, recently began rearming his troops, and deploying fighter jets and helicopters to a syrian base yesterday. In london today, after conferring with britains foreign minister, secretary of state john kerry called on russia and iran and any other countries with influence over syria to push for negotiations. Were prepared to negotiate, is assad prep
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Good morning, everyone. I want to welcome all of you to this discussion on russia and syria, implications for the United States and turkey. We have a great panel to discuss most recent turkish incident, the downing of the russian jet, as well as experts who can provide a broader perspective on u. S. Russia relations and see how that is going Going Forward how the relationship between the west and russia will evolve but in particular in the context of syria. As you know, russian intervention, military intervention, direct intervention in syria has complicated the dynamics on the ground. There were expectations this could perhaps lead to some contribution from russia to the fight against isis, but lets say that russia has been at the very least ambivalent about that. Not entirely clear what russia is doing in syria. It seems to be targeting the opposition against the assad regime so russia seems to be helping the assad regime and also doing some operations against isil, but well discuss