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Foundation for political, economic, and social research. Good morning everyone. Distinguished guests, friends, and colleagues, welcome. Im the executive director of the Seta Foundation at washington, d. C. We would like to welcome you all on behalf of our institution. Thank you for joining us today important conference of the july 15 coup attempt. This conference will debate a subject that continues to define turkeys domestic and Foreign Policy in significant ways. The last years coup attempt exposed the extent to which the followers went to grab power at the expense of popular will. The attempt made it clear for turkey that this organization as no longer a moment with networks in the state democracy but now apply terror as a means to achieve its goals by attacking its own people. Turkey continues to fight. Gainst this unique challenge today it will be fortunate and a unique opportunity to hear from the general guler among us in the audience the commander of the Gendarmerie Forces in t
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
Southeast of washington, d. C. In maryland. We have learned a few new details about the situation. We will bring those to you now. Base officials just tweeted the incident is ongoing at an Air Force Hospital there at the base. They have asked everyone on the base to shelter in place. Base officials also just revealed an active Shooter Drill was set to take place today, but this happened before that drill could take place. We do have a fox sister station in washington, d. C. It is reporting the base Officials Say they did not need any help from local police. Some might read that as perhaps they have the situation under control or somehow contained themselves. Yeah. You may remember joint base andrews, thats where the president flies into and out of on air force one. The president is not scheduled to fly out of the base today. Again, these are live pictures. We will keep monitoring the situation, bring you updates as they become available. Here at home we will also help get you where you
Very busy wednesday morning. That breaking news in italy. A powerful earthquake striking overnight while people were asleep. At least1 people are now dead. That number is expected to rise. We have video just in showing rescuers trying to reach people under a collapsed building. Moments ago, a woman and her dog were pulled out alive. That 6. 2 quakes epicenter was in the central part of the country. Its made buildings in rome sway. Heres a live picture of amatrice, roughly about 100 miles from rome. That gives you a sense of how powerful the quake was. Rescuers there using bare handsing looing for survivors. Abcs Jennifer Eccleston is live from london. Jennifer, good morning. Reporter good morning, diane and kendis. Its been several hours since the earthquake. Rescue reach the most hard hit areas. At least 21 people are dead. The aftershocks continue to rat this will community now on edge. This morning, a town in ruins. Central italy rocked by a powerful earthquake in the middle of the