Recently we can say started focusing his attention on turkeys conduct in a syria can tell you the investigative journal have been asking all the important questions a long time ago and in a sense, still have predicted what we are seeing now unfolding in the north of the country so please join me in welcoming back, assistant professor of Homeland Security, former chief of the Turkish National Police Counterterrorism and Operation Division and fellow program on extreme is him at washington university. You gave would you like to Say Something . Okay. You gave an incredible presentation about how the turkish regime carried out influence operations on u. S. Soil and we touched a bit in the last panel on the military operation in syria and i would like to pick up where we left at the last. What is the guiding principle in your view that is driving the president and what hes doing in syria now . After 2014 when the anticorruption operation in december 2000 carried out against the family membe
We spoke with a stethoscope State University professor trapped in that country. Reporter lets get to the new images. These pictures of soldiers, what it appears they are doing giving themselves up to government forces. They are walking amongst their tanks with their hands held up. The president of turkey addressed this country tonight saying his government brought to power by the people is in charge. The coup is being crushed. I hail of bullets dissenting from a helicopter. Gunshots fired in the streets of turkey. The crowd ducking for cover. Also in the neighborhood were many government offices are located, would this is a helicopter dropped a bomb. A San Francisco State University professor in turkish studies is in istanbul right now. He tells kron4 news there is chaos on the streets. Helicopters circling overhead , carson street honking. Either the military or the government. Reporter people in the people are being told to stay indoors but many stocked up on supplies. Im a little wo
Now joining us on booktv is robert george, professor of Juris Prudence here at princeton, university. Way want to talk to him about his recent book conscience and its enemies confronting the dog mas of liberal secularism. Dr. George oh, do you you define liberal secular system. Guest a view about human detonation and dignity that competes with other views some secular but not liberal, some religious. Its a view that is very common in places like the one where we are right now university communities. I would venture to say its the predominant view in the elite sector our our culture and prominent in europe, which has become a very secular society. It embraces ideas about liberty and the personality, about the nature of human beings about ethics that are distinctive in our own time. Its associated with socially liberal views about matters of sexuality, abortion life and death issues. Generally identity issues. Kind of the spectrum of socalled hot button morally charged issues in our own
Booktv. He talks about the shifting alliances in the fight against isis and the u. S. Governments relationship with the kurds and the Current Situation in syria. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon everyone and welcome on this very snowy day. This book roundtable with David Phillips. I am professor of Political Science at barnard and Deputy Director for social sciences and programming. On behalf of of the Hammer Institute and Columbia University and want to welcome you to this book launch, book conversation the kurdish spring a new map of the middle east authored by David Phillips sitting here to your right. David is director of a program on peacebuilding and rights about the study of human rights. He has worked as Senior Adviser to the United Nations secretariat and the Foreign Affairs expert and Senior Advisor to the u. S. State department. So positions, different academic universities conflict Resolution Program director at the American University program on conflict and peaceb
Cspan created 35 years ago and brought to you as a local service by your cable or satellite provider. Coming up tonight, booktv looks at books on isis. First, David Phillips and the shifting alliance in the fight against isis. And then we discuss isis inside the army of terror. Looking at the groups rise and leadership. And later the groups appeal in the middle east and the threat to the United States. You are watching booktv in prim time. David phillips director of the Peace Program at Columbia University institute of the study of human rights talks about the shifting alliances in the fight against isis and talks about the governments relationship with the kurds and the relationship with syria. This was held at columbia in new york city. Good afternoon. And welcome on this snowy day to the book round table with David Phillips. I am a professor of Political Science science at barnard and Deputy Director for social sciences and programming. On behalf of of the Hammer Institute and Colum