a few years ago passed a motion recognizing the armenian genocide turkey slapped sanctions on several french companies doing business in turkey we ve seen none of that today it s just be mainly hot rhetoric and i think it s a recognition here in turkey that micron is using this to consolidate his base inside front while turkey hit the president too with looking to bolster his support among turkish nationalists in the country but at the moment it s more about political handbags rather than any serious throw out that i thought happened in the past and another reason why turkey doesn t want to pick a trade fight with france is because the turkish economy is in such dire straits at the moment political tension could threaten further economic turmoil. there was dorian jones there reporting from istanbul where the leaders of ireland and the u.k. were among hundreds of guests today attending the funeral of slain northern irish journalist leader mckee she was shot by irish nationalists last we
a long point of tension between these two countries when the french parliament a few years ago passed motion recognizing the armenian genocide turkey slapped sanctions on several french companies doing business in turkey we ve seen none of that today it s just been mainly hard rhetoric and i think it s a recognition here in turkey that micron is using this to consolidate his base inside france while turkey here the president to with looking to bolster his support among turkish nationalists in the country at the moment is more about political handbags rather than any serious doubt that has happened in the past and another reason why turkey doesn t want to pick a trade fight with france is because the turkish economy is in such dire straits at the moment more political tension could threaten further economic turmoil in turkey or any signs that turkey will ever recognize the armenian genocide. i think that that is a long way off turkey insists that this has nothing to do with reality in h
a very powerful threat did send shock waves into on crime which is the reason why we saw a much more restrained reaction and other than the other factor is that turkey is aware that trump can deliver on this threat last year. hit turkey with some very miniscule very weak sanctions but it prompted a forty percent collapse in the turkish currency although it has recovered some of that but they forgot about currencies that turkey is now heading into recession turkey doesn t want to have another economic fight with washington and you know there were reports that president arafat was said that he had a personal promise from the u.s. president that u.s. troops would be leaving syria and since then that narrative has changed like the wind what is the feeling i mean when uncle in turkey wants to know the u.s. position on syria on the kurds who does it talk to that listen to the u.s.
a very powerful threat did send shock waves into on crime which is the reason why we saw a much more restrained reaction and other than the other factor is that turkey is aware that can deliver on this threat last year. hit turkey with some very miniscule very weak sanctions but it prompted a forty percent collapse in the turkish currency although it has recovered some of that but they forgot about currencies that turkey is now heading into recession turkey doesn t want to have another economic fight with washington and you know there were reports that president arafat was said that he had a personal promise from the u.s. president that u.s. troops would be leaving syria and since then that narrative has changed like the wind what is the feeling i mean when when turkey wants to know the u.s. position on syria on the kurds who does it talk to that listen to the u.s.
fully met, the american military might be deepening its involvement in syria instead of reducing it before leaving. i think the presence of turkey woke up and thought it might not be such a good idea to ask us to leave. last week alone we took 400 strikes against the islamic state. turkey doesn t have the capability we have come of the logistics, the air capability our counterinsurgency tactics and strategy that turkey doesn t have. when you ve got iran and russia busy mounting chemical weapons attacks against innocent civilians, they aren t mounting attacks against isis. turkey has been hit with a lot of terrorist attacks and they won t enjoy any productive relationship with the kurds, it s been the united states leveraging the kurdish allies in taking the fight to isis, that what makes them nervous. shannon: top u.s. officials are said to have negotiations with them, john bolton