critics charge that turkey chose to overlook the black-market oil smuggled into turkey. by some estimates black market oil supplied i.s.i.l. with as much as 2 million in revenue. >> if i.s.i.l. is smuggling oil over the border, maybe some turkish people benefit, and it's not a great threat to the security of turkey, of course. yes, it gives funds to the islamic state. but turkey's view of the islamic state is ampositive lents. they are determined to see the end of bashar al-assad, and don't see, in looking at syria, see many players likely to achieve that goal. >> one of turkey's complicated relationships is with iraq's kurds, who have autonomy in northern iraq. turkey fought an insurgency on its own territory, taking the lives of 30,000 people. over the past few years turkey forged a relationship with iraq's kurds, yielding 6.2 million barrels of oil, worth $600 million through a pipeline. the iraqi kurds in turn use that money to finance kurdish peshmerga fighters battling i.s.i.l. forces. >> it provides an economy for the kurds, it provides a benefit to turkey, which

now there are those who believe a deal with united states addresses turkey's concerns. >> turkey does not want the ypg to create mortar tore. now, the u.s. and turkey are working together to clear aleppo from isil. >> turkey's fear is that syrian kurds or isil could drive out syrian opposition groups from aleppo and control the important border crossing. it is no coincidence that the turkish jets targeted isil close to the front lines with turkey-backed syrian rebels. it seems that turkey is hoping that it's long time demand safe zone should emerge. >> to get rid of the isil threat in syria and even iraq. after that the safe zones will be formed naturally. >> but this may come at a price. the peace process with the pkk separatist movement has officially ended as turkish police have conducted raids against pkk and isil sympathizers. it believes that there may be differents to destabilize turkey from within. al jazeera southern turkey. >> now turkey is going after isil targets in syria and pkk targets in northern iraq. they effectively lump isil and the pkk together officials here today

with turkey. that was a real success. we build from there. we then worked with them on a train and equip program for the syrian opposition. we have had good cooperation with turkey. they have had an election, so our conversations slowed down. three weeks ago, talks accelerated and turkey agreed to open bases for aircraft to strike isis targets in syria and iraq with turkish f-16's. some of the details have to be worked out. i am just coming from a meeting at the pentagon with secretary kerry, secretary carter, and the general austin about coordinating on the ground. we have a team in turkey and will move fast. charlie: the pkk -- what role did they play? brett: a lot of this is inter-tangled. we reached a preliminary agreement with turkey about two weeks ago. nothing was agreed until we had a conversation with president obama and the security team. president obama discussed it with president erdogan, which is when it was sealed. two days before the pkk killed on number of turkish police officers a

with respect to turkey. henri: it is about the kurds, but it is also bad about the relationship with the united states. two very important things happened. very much increased criticism in washington with respect to isis. the president twice criticized the turks for not cooperating on isis. there was a perception that the united states was essentially, not only angry but excruciating itself from turkey on the question of syria. secondly, the united states essentially made a tactical alliance with the syrian kurds, whereby we became essentially the syrian kurds'air force. it is with the help of the american air force that the current -- syrian kurds managed to beat isis. in the only group that has succeeded in beating isis. this is what the president referred to the other day when he said, we have the proper allies, then we can beat isis. one other thing that was very critical, that is the american operations in the region, the americans invited a syrian kurd to sit there. what the kurdistan was an alliance b

can you talk about what is happening in turkey and this rare meeting of nato and what turkey is doing. kani: i can. thanks for having me, amy. amy: so, explain what has taken place this week. kani: first, the nato comment that instability is that the border of turkey or nato's doorstep, as he put it, it is really inside turkey. for the last 31 years there has been a big conflict inside turkey between the kurds and the turks. over 40,000 have been killed. the nato secretary did not mention that. as far as the rise of isis and turkey's decision to allow its air base to be used against it, for a year now, kurds on the ground especially inside syria and iraq have been fighting isis. by some accounts, they are the most effective ground troops, boots on the ground that the u.s. has cooperated with, and isis has had major setbacks. all of a sudden now, turkey wants to join the fight, but it really does not want to fight isis. it wants to fight the kurds. i do not know what is going on at the white house, hoping that turkey will fight isis. it does not want to. it does not have the desire. it

and turkey creating a buffer zone along the border between turkey and syria? what difference would that make? >> i'm listening carefully to the students but both governments. i'm not a part of the government and i have not seen them come to an agreement on that concept but it seems that they are never ring the differences on what that would mean. it would be very important to secure turkey plus -- turkey's border against foreign fighters ability to cross them at least those not favored by the turks the united states, and other coalition partners. that is the big significance of the so-called buffer zone. there isn't one there yet. it sounds like turkey is getting greater control of its borders, thanks in no small part to the kurdish fighters on the other side who have sealed it off against isis. laura: nato meets tomorrow. do you see nato interesting not only the campaign against the islamic state, but how about the campaign against the kurdish militia in iraq and syria? >> there has been great nato solidarity in any case not just against deaesh or the so-call

they accused turkey of declaring war on isil as a coverup to launch war against the kurds in turkey and syria. >> they are trying to use the coalition against dash for the political parties and this is something unacceptable. because we have to differentiate between the terrorists and the political movements that demand for humanitarian rights. >> turkey decided to engage isil a few days ago. but its decision to target the pkk is causing the most controversy. turkey is an active player where yet another front line seems to be emerging. >> meanwhile syrian military air strikes struck part of the countryside. six people were killed, several others were wounded. >>> we are getting reports of an explosion in bahrain. it happened on the island of sitra. ministry of interior says two policemen were called in what it's call a terrorist bombings. we'll get you more details on that what looks to have been a bomb in bahrain. stay with us here at al jazeera. >>> the saudi led coalition and houthi rebels are accusing each other of breaching the cease fire. there has been heavy fighting on southern

you cannot allow democratic country like turkey a democrat country like turkey to have public overview or allow public overview to be destroyed in turkey. however, there have been two police officers cowardly killed and they will be brought before justice and made accountable. those who used long range weapons to kill brave police officers have been caught and now we are in the process of catching those who are behind them and they will be punished as well. yesterday, early in the morning i received an urgent telephone call which informed me that a nurse, mid wife and driver were kidnapped. they were on their way to help a pregnant woman in a remote village who was in whose life was in danger because of this kidnapping. how can we turn a blind eye to such cowardly actions? i have been inviting all political parties to come and sign a joint declaration against terrorists terrorists. i'd like to thank the leader of the republican people's party who responded favorably but not the others. h.t.p. in hands with those elements who try to destroy public order in turkey then i invited them for

it is a straight shot from turkey. and remember yesterday, the three f-16s that turkey deployed were able to hit isis targets inside syria along the turkish/syrian border but inside syria, about a kilometer in were able to do that without using or going into syrian air space, which is a very very strategically important thing. but what we're seeing now with turkey coming into the coalition is that there is going to be a lot more movement along that border and really a more effective really military strategy against isis in syria. the turkish prime minister did say, however, that this was not turkey being pulled into a war, that this is just about preserving its national security. >> cnn producer gul tuysuz on the phone with us from istanbul turkey. gul, thank you very much for your insights. we'll stay in touch as we continue to follow this story. >>> u.s. officials say the government is preparing for the possible release this november of jonathan polar, a convicted spy for israel when he is up for parole. pollard was

it worked for turkey they were targetting bashar al-assad in a way that benefitted turkey's strategic objective. >> this is not a side on side war, and never has been. it's a triangular war. >> it's probably whatever the biggest number you want to go with. there's so many sides, it's hard to tell. the sad part is the deal the united states made for the use of the air base seems to have been premised on throwing the kurds under the bus. obama is prone to doing that. >> some kurds or all kurds? >> okay in this case... >> not waging to split hairs, but there's a distinction. >> i don't know that turkey will limit it to that. and i don't know that their efforts are significant to justify what we have done. we had an ally in the region. we have put them at rick. if they make the -- them at risk. if they make the distinction, it's the bad kurds. they don't make the distinction. we are throwing an ally under the bus for a negligible gain in the fight against i.s.i.s. turkey is not going in to shut the area down. >> i don't think i.s.i.s. is a free zone. to have a zone you need turkey on boar

and that's what's making turkey particularly nervous. >> reporter: turkey says it has no plans to send troops across the border into syria. instead, it says it is cooperating with ground forces already inside syria. those troops are not syria's kurds who the coalition has been relying on, but opposition groups fighting isil and the syrian government. turkey's prime minister says the u.s., which leads the coalition against isil, has agreed those opposition groups should be protected. >> the agreement we reach covers our concerns and expectations up to a certain level. i can't go into details. but, for example an important point was the free syrian army and other rebels fighting against dash. >> reporter: it is an open secret that turkey is unhappy with the alliance between the coalition and kurdish ypg force. with the help of coalition air strikes, the kurds have expanded their presence with turkey. turkey is worried about this for many reasons. it doesn't want the kurds to create a state and inflame separatist sentiments. it also considers the ypg an offshoot of the pkk the kurdistan w

turkey is blaming the syrian kurds not to collaborate with them and turkey is not too keen to see if i buy the kurds against isis. there's a lot of news and i spoke to sources in the white bg -- ypg that said they bombed our bases and kurdish fighters would been wounded. stuart: do not want the kurds to be effective against the islamic state? surely this will hurt that process? adam: unfortunately, turkey has fought isis. they prevents the move to democracy. it prevented access to weapons and extensive medical support prices. -- for isis. the medical support is ongoing. it's a mistake to believe the militants bombing overnight in syria with isis weaponry is an indication. on one side, they tried to give the belief that they are bombing crisis but on the other hand, we hear they have guns and -- stuart: let's talk as well if we can about the situation with the bombing of the pkk focus in iraq. presumably you would be one of those voices that says turkey is using its fight against the islamic state is a smokescreen to be able to go in and bomb those targets in iraq as well. adam: just

turkey not nearly as definitive. turkey officials have suggested that peace process could perhaps continue. now people that we're speaking with especially members of the kurdish community in this region on the border of syria very worried about what lies ahead in the days to come. >> elsewhere isil fighters say that they set off two trunk bombs in the border town. these picture show smoke after the attacks. the u.k.-based observatory four human rights said that people were killed but has not said how many. kurdish forces recaptured parts from isil, which used it to funnel supplies to its territory territories. now iraqi police say that suicide-bombers killed four people and injured 14 more at a swimming pool in a town. the attack took place where the suicide-bomber blew himself up and then a motorbike parked outside of the pool also detonated. >>> the iraqi army said that 77 soldiers and militiamen were killed in anbar province. medical workers say four civilians were also killed by army airstrikes and shelling. caro

and turkey want to do but it is part of turkey's priorities. turkey said the way to deal with isis is to bring down assad regime. the united states would like to see a sawed fall, but they do not believe that that would resolve the isis problem. the safe stone would draw turkey and the united states into the conflict because the safe stone would have to be defended at some point. laura: you are watching "bbc world news america." still to come, human trafficking continues in nigeria. the victims and the profit from the girls misery. usa today investigation say that copilot error cause the crash of a virgin spacecraft last year during a test flight. >> seeing for the first time, -- seen for the first time, these are the last moments of the virgin lactic spacecraft. it disintegrated in mid air and spread debris across five miles of the california desert. >> the copilot died in the pilot suffered serious injuries. >> investigators confirmed that came down to this handle. the braking system. the copilot pulled it 14 seconds to early. the company mak

turkey did not ask for any additional military nato presence in turkey. what we all know is that turkey is a staunch ally. turkey have--turkey has a very capable armed forces. >> al jazeera has this update on the airstrikes and those attacks from southern turkey, near the border with syria. >> for the first time tourish fighter jets targeted the pkk on turkish soil. over the past few days turkish jets have been targeting the group across the border in iraq. this situation undoubtedly deteriorating. there have been a number of incidents with the turkish military blaming the pkk with a number of attacks targeting the group across the country. it has got the political support, the moral support it needed. turkey declared war on two organizations, isil and the pkk. the situation is as is. there is an agreement between the united states and turkey to fight isil. they're in agreement. but they are still involved in talks concerning setting up a buffer zone in syria. turkey is insisting that a buffering zone is needed for the displaced refugees to, find a safe h

and turkey positions. the white house is not saying that this is also not an -- an area that's open to others so it's definitely going to be a safe region for the opposition and i think this is what has brought turkey on board, now that turkey knows it can use this area as a staging ground for opposition groups and also eventually transfer some of the 2 million refugees in turkey into this area as well. >> i want to come back to that in a second, but i need you to explain a couple of things here. who is the group wpg? and is turkey's attack on isis really a cover for an attack on syrian kurds and the pkk? >> slightly different than that. so what happened in the last year the united states worked -- and maybe this is a cynical view but it worked closely with the kurds in northern iran. this is a group called pyd that is linked to another group in turkey known as the pkk. so pyd is the syrian group link link -- linked to the turkish group. and they were success. and it was a major defeat for isis. and one of

the fear in turkey is when and how will the islamic state retaliated against turkey after these actions against it. anchor: dorian jones istanbul. thank you very much. now to other stories making news around the world nasa has been sharing the latest goodies from its pluto flyby mission, new horizons. this animated flyover shows pluto in much higher resolution than we have ever seen but or. -- before. this stunning shot is bhutto's darkside -- pluto's dark side. in austria a landslide has cut off 5000 people from the outside world. aim a den rockslide earlier in the day blocked off the only road into the country's valley. there have been no reports so far of any casualties. you are watching "dw news." still to come, can your car be hacked? hackers have struck fear into the auto industry, spurring chrysler to announce a massive recall. we will hack away on that answer in a moment with business news and more news. ♪ >> 1 out of 8 people's suffering from hunger. the word -- world food program is fighting hunger. join the fight. anchor: this is "dw news" live from berlin. president barack

thousands of refugees pulled into turkey, there was a lot of speculation about what turkey was up to, what an n.a.t.o. member, rich, powerful muslim democracy - would it stand by and watch the region descend into chaos. turkey is in the fight. using it to fight i.s.i.l. and attack kurdish enemies. war without end, it's the "inside story". i.s.i.l. free zone. it covers the threat on the border. once established. it will be a safe place for the millions of refugees in turkey. the obama says it will not create a no-fly zone and sources say they have not agreed on who will do the fighting on the ground. experts say it's unlikely there'll be enough u.s. trained own. >> the opposition to the regime doesn't have the military capacity for some of the extremists that they would not want in the border. >> the united states, other arab countries are too far away and will not provide the military presence. it comes down to the turkish military guaranteeing that a zone would be free of i.s.i.s. >> turkey started to bomb p.k.k. in iraq, days after they announced the u.s. could use their base to lau

turkey will continue to become target there is and protect turkey from the pkk. now turkey's actions are stemming from this attack also described in the report that happened this past wednesday. the ongoing pkk killed two police officers. they claimed that they killed those police officers as a result of those results cooperating with isil, saying they collaborated with isil and this is a line that pkk and other kurdish groups have taken. they believe that turkey has turned a blind eye. these are all accusations that turkey has denied which shows you just how complicated the situation is. turkey believes they're under direct threat. but they said that the peace process is over. >> syria's president has announced a amnesty for military deserters who violateed come pulsary conscription. the syrian's army is the region's largest but it has also been overstretched by the four-year long civil war. many men left the country or found ways to avoid serving in the armed forces. a co-edtier of the magazine. he's live in aman for us. what do you make of this? is this a sign

syria shares a border with turkey and there are reports that turkey and the usa has agreed to a safe zone there. >> it seems that the safe zone is panning out to be a protected zone or even a no-fly zone without it being officially designated as such. the u.s. is reluctant to get involved in fighting assad's forces. it wants to fight isil so it doesn't want the job of protecting a no-fly zone. so effectively this safe zone it seems will go 40 miles deep into syria and run 68 miles along the border with turkey. the idea is to push those isil forces 40 miles away from the border with turkey. what turkey's foreign minister is saying is that effectively that strip of land will become a protected zone because of the amount of flights going on over head targeting isil forces beyond that area. therefore, that will relief some of the pressure on turkey, the 2 million refugees here at the moment it's hoped that some of them might be able to go back into that protected zone. only last week the u.s. authorities were saying that the turks drive a hard bargain. we understand a couple of things ha

and this really is what causes concern in turkey. turkish officials are worried about the growing strength of syria's kurds. we managed to speak to a spokesman of the y.p.g. and did welcome turkish decision to join the fight against i.s.i.l. but y.p.g. believes turkey is more concerned with targeting the kurds and just shows you the growing tensions between turkey and the syrian kurds and the syrian kurds feel the war against i.s.i.l. that turkey declared is a cover up and what the turks want to do is contain the syrian kurds extension, taking more territory in syria but we did hear from the prime minister. he said he laid down certain conditions where he sees the y.p.g. playing a role in quote the new syria. one of the conditions is the syrian kurds must support syrian opposition groups. what turkey is trying to do is put opposition under one umbrella and so far the kurds yes do fight with some syrian rebel forces but these are not the main syrian groups and want the main opposition groups the to fall under one umbrella to prevent t

it comes after a series of turkish of air strikes. >> turkey patrols the border after they accused turkey of shelling the positions. they pushed back islamic jihadists in the north of the country. they deny the accusation saying it has only been targeting the group in syria. in neighboring iraq turkey has been waiting a two pronged campaign. >> we use our rights to keep the targets. >> a nato member turkey has been a reluctant partner in the u.s. campaign over islamic state groups. it was a suicide bomb attack that killed more than 30 people in a town near the syrian border. it catapulted turkey to the frontline. it sparked protest by kurds across the country. they urge the government to revise. >> we're supporting them in in their efforts to fight terrorism. but self defense has to be proportion nature. >> they're holding a special meeting on tuesday. turkey's intervention would change the balance in the region but rule out sending ground troops into syria. >> let's bring in turkey specialist. thanks very much for being with us. just two years ago turkey signed a cease fire with kurdish

ambassador to turkey. in washington steven cook, senior fellow for middle eastern studies at the council on foreign relations. henri barkey, director of the middle east program at the wilson center, david l. philips, author of "the kurdish spring: a new map of the middle east." i am pleased to have all of them on the program. mr. ambassador, i begin with you and your understanding of many things turkish. what do you think is going on? you heard from brett mcgurk as a bit of history. where do you think the turks are coming from and why are they now allowing the united states to use their bases to conduct air strikes in syria and iraq? >> i think a couple of things have led to this development. maybe three. there is been persistent american diplomatic engagement with the turks, of course and there has been a certain amount of cooperation all along despite the failure to have a strategic meeting of the minds. but that engagement has been there and skillful, i have to say, since i left. beyond that though, i t

let's start with turkey. how significant is it that the turks are finally conducting their own bombing missions? >> i think it's very important for quite some time the u.s. has been concerned about not only turkey's action he to at least not stop i.s.i.l. but stop i.s.i.l. from operating in that area, use of bases and bringing in turkey with their very, very experienced pilots gives us a better platform to operate from than simply the bases we have been operating from. much closer to syria and northern iraq. >> critical of people not flowing through intoob syria to join i.s.i.l. and having its forces watch from across the border as i.s.i.l. attacked kobani. why do you think they're finally acting now? >> well, i think first thing is that they did not act prior to this, because they always saw assad as the larger threat. they saw i.s.i.s. as a symptom but assad was the disease. i.s.i.s. was a creation, reacting to assad. and they were always trying, they the turks were always trying to get the united states an

from southern turkey,. >> turkey is at war on two fronts. it's jets are now hitting targets across the border in iraq and syria. a day after beginning an air campaign against isil and syria turkish jets for the first time in years began hitting pkk or kurdistan workers party positions in iraq's mountains. the pkk immediately declared the already strained 2013 cease-fire with turkey dead. turkish officials are not phased and talk about a long-term fight. >> whenever we see a decrees or the vanishing of the threat then of course we'll make a reassessment. the third wave of operations are a part of this. >> this is a major shift in policy. >> for turkey isil declared war when it bombed a cultural center in the border town on monday. but many here believe turkey's decision to actively engage in the fight against the armed group has a lot to do with the battlefield in northern syria. the governments here is concerned about isil threatening syrian opposition groups in their strongholds in aleppo province. it is also worried about what it sees as t

the ypg is now accusing turkey of repeatedly attacking their units across the board an allegation turkey denies. against cirdz both in turkey and syria. >> they are trying to use the agreement with the coalition against daesh to target the kurds political parties. and this is something unacceptable because we have to differentiate between the terrorists and the political movements that demand for humanitarian rights for some ethnical groups. >> turkey decided to engage i.s.i.l. a few days ago but now turkey is an active player on the syrian battlefield where yet another battlefield is emerging. zeina khodr acknowledge al jazeera, turkey. >> bernard smith has more from istanbul. >> raids by security services turkish authorities say all of those are foreigners. a series of raids have been going on in the past weeks and months in turkey. they picked up speed after the suicide bombing in suruc. targeting not just potential i.s.i.l. fighters, it is also targeting people from the kurdistan people's party the pkk. it says it targets all groups it considers a threat to turkey's national security

and both turkey tried to bring america to its position and america tried to bring turkey to the position that they desired. that was one thing. the second thing, i would say that isis held hostage 49 turkish diplomats until one year ago, and it was very difficult for turkey to conduct any military operation against isis when they keep hostage 49 of your diplomats. last summer and this summer there were two elections in turkey, and usually you would appreciate this democracies try not to become involved in wars when there are elections. >>> a former prison boss in romania has been jailed for crimes against humanity. he is now nearly 90 years old, and has always maintained that he was just doing what he was told. lawrence lee reports. >> translator: i was only obeying orders. that was always the defense of this old man against the accusation that he carried out actions in a prison camp in romania, which degraded tortured, and killed the political enemies. pursued everywhere during his trial, he kept going back to the same argument used by nazi prison guards in world war ii that he was carr

let's begin in turkey. that's where the government has confirmed its carried out air strikes on isil targets inside syria. turkish police carried out raids in the country where suspected isil members and kurdish actives are believed to be acting. we are on border with syria. talk to us first of all about this latest escalation. >> reporter: tensions have ratcheted up on the border with syria, if you look behind me, behind my left shoulder, that was position that was attacked by isil. five isil fighters shot at turkish soldiers. one soldiers was killed, two more injured. after that, clashes ensued. we heard about seven hours ago there was a massive escalation, three fighter jets entered syrian air space. this is really showing how turkey is getting drawn further into the syrian conflict, how there is more spillover of violence into turkey. that's not the only significant news. in fact, there were raids that happened in 13 provinces throughout turkey. the turkish authorities going after not just suspects they

turkey. turkish air strikes targeted the workers partied or perform kk in -- party or p.k.k. in northern iraq. >>> president obama made a national address to the people of kenya, who came on the last day of their trip to the east african nation. later they'll fly to ethiopia, where he'll be the first president to address the african union >>> more on the turkey air strikes against i.s.i.l. and p.k.k. we are joined from ankara by an assistant professor. thank you for being with us. are you surprised to see turkey turming on the opportunity. i'm not surprised. turkey has been eager. but the specific target was supposed to be bashar al-assad. so there's nothing, you know anti-western in that sense, that turkey was aiming to spearhead the western coalition. it didn't want to fight with i.s.i.l. >> bringing in the kurdish element. what about that what about the fights against the p.k.k. >> when we talk about the kurdish aspect. there's an almost uninterrupted kurdish belt ranging from the eastern

the ypg is now accusing turkey of repeatedly attacking their units across the border an allege turkey denies. the syrian curds also accuse turkey both in turkey and syria. >> they are trying ouse the agreement with the coalition against daesh to target the kurds political parties and this is something unacceptable because we have to differentiate between the terrorists and the political movements that demand for humanitarian rights for some ethicalethnical groups. >> causing the most controversy turkey is now an active player on the syrian battlefield where yet another front line seems to be emerging. zeina khodr, al jazeera. >> leftist organization hes, here is bernard smith who has been following developments for us in turkey. >> reporter: 15 people have been arrested in ankara in this latest wave of raids by the security services. the turkish authorities say all of those arrested are foreigners. part of a series of raids that have been going on for the past weeks and months in turkey. they picked up steam after the suicide bombing in suruc. but it's not just targeting i.s.i.l. supp

turkey doesn't want the y.p.g. to take more territory. the ors supported the cured now it withdrew its support but will not last forever. but now the u.s. and turkey are working to are together to clear isil from aleppo. >> reporter: turkey's fear is that syrian kurds or isil could drive out syrian opposition groupsgroups from aleppo and control the important border crossing. it is no coincidence that turkish jets targeted isil close not frontlines with turkey-backed syrian rebels. it seems turkey is hoping its long time demand for a humanitarian safe zone inside syria will merge. >> translator: our aim is on get rid of the isil threat in syria and even in iraq after that, the safe zones will be formed naturally. >> reporter: but this may come at a price. the peace process to stop a decades-long conflict with the p.k.k. separatist movement seems to have officially ended. and turkish police have recently conducted raids against hundreds of suspected approximate. p.k.k. and isil sympathizers the government believes t

turkey. the search is on for whoever is responsible for this. this comes after targets were bombed by the turkish military. >>> a series of rapid chgs changes toward northern syria in the last few days. they are talking about the potential for a safe haven/zone for which the hundreds of the refugees in camps could perhaps return. official talk about when and isis is pushed out of those areas, naturally they would become safe enough for those refugees to return. it's a complex ambition. jets are hitting targets inside syria. turkey also perceives some kurdish groups as a threat and they are hitting the pkk. allies of the pkk are the ground troops fighting isis. one thing not in down is turkeyish turkeyish. isis have used turkish material to take people and materiel into syria. the scope of their about -- ambition could require tens of thousands of troops. it does now have the potential of one of key neighbors of syria a nato ally being thrust full head long into this conflict. there are other

threw support behind turkey. the decision at an emergency meeting in brussels called by turkey. some countries expressed concern over ankara's strikes in iraq. fighter jets have struck members of the p.k.k. on the turkish side of the border. an army sergeant was killed when the p.k.k. fired n its forces. >> barnaby phillips is following the conference in brussels. >> n.a.t.o. countries expressed support in the fight against terrorism. that is what turkey hoped for out of the meeting. >> n.a.t.o. secretary-general was shorts on specifics. he was asked whether there was a possibility that n.a.t.o. may be involved in a buffer zone an i.s.i.l.-free zone along the turkish syrian border. this is what he had to say. >> n.a.t.o. is not part of the efforts, this is something discussed on a bilateral basis between turkey and the united states. >> i welcome the increased efforts by turkey. to fight i.s.i.l. turkey has a powerful military. it has air bases. it's a front line state. it brings complications because of its dual track policy the fact that it is attacking i.s.i.l. but p.k.k. kur

access to bases in turkey. it's not just i asked that turkey is targeting. strikes a been reported against an old foe. the kurds. >> all eyes are now on this border. it separates turkey from syria. last week's bomb attack was a sign that the conflict is spilling over into its northern neighbor. they are promising to create a buffer zone in northern area. intervention in syria could bring it in the conflict. this unverified outage is a syrian town. washington has been providing air support as they fight aground or. >> there is concern that the u.s. coalition airstrikes have effectively enabled kurdish fighters to reinforce and endeavor to create a coalition nation. >> that kurdish state could include parts of turkey. it has been fighting separatist for decades. the government seized the islamic state as twin evils. turkey's bombing campaign against the kurds risk stirring up ethnic tensions at home. for the violent protest, one of many recently. the government could face bigger kurdish protesters fighting both the kurds and i asked. they say turkey is already

is turkey attacking y.p.g. position innings. >> look, if any terrorist organization or its affiliate they have close links with p.k.k. if they are getting into fight with another terrorist organization isil, does it mean that the first terrorist organization is legal or legitimate organization? >> that's not my question. us turkey firing on syrian occurred positions? >> look, we should correct that. we are not fighting with syrian kurds. we are fighting with terrorist organizations. ok? we have kurdish population, we have kurdish ministers not with the kurds are we with a fight but in kobane, more than 694,000 kobane residents were pursued by turkey when isis was attacking over there. the kurdish peshmerga passed through turkish border in order to get to kobane. as long as the syrian kurds p.y.g. or others are giving five with isis, with the regime, which is the main cause of the problems main cause of evil in the region, we have no problem with it. >> thank you very much indeed for joining us. we do appreciate

access to bases in turkey. it's not just i asked that turkey is targeting. strikes a been reported against an old foe. the kurds. >> all eyes are now on this border. it separates turkey from syria. last week's bomb attack was a sign that the conflict is spilling over into its northern neighbor. they are promising to create a buffer zone in northern area. intervention in syria could bring it in the conflict. this unverified outage is a syrian town. washington has been providing air support as they fight aground or. >> there is concern that the u.s. coalition airstrikes have effectively enabled kurdish fighters to reinforce and endeavor to create a coalition nation. >> that kurdish state could include parts of turkey. it has been fighting separatist for decades. the government seized the islamic state as twin evils. turkey's bombing campaign against the kurds risk stirring up ethnic tensions at home. for the violent protest, one of many recently. the government could face bigger kurdish protesters fighting both the kurds and i asked. they say turkey is already

turkey is a member of the u.s.-led coalition against the armed group, but it really hasn't actively participated. turkey has a lot of reservations concerning the coalition strategy, believing the coalition shouldn't just focus on isil but broaden the mission to target the syrian regime, as well. now we hear officials saying the airstrikes as well as the police raid are just the first step. telling really the turkish public and the international community that expect more steps. these are not just single events, in their words, but part of a process. >> you talk about the shift in policy, why now? why has turkey decided to do this? was it the bombing this week? >> that was really a turning point. we have tomorrow something. there were tensions along this border three weeks ago. we were here. turkey actually threatened to carry out a cross border invasion into syria. turkey saw two threats at the time, isil, which was fighting syrian opposition gaps, which are supported by turkey and the syrian kurds, who were taking

turkey against democracy in turkey and against public order in turkey. isil was behind it, and they have been reacted to appropriately. there are some circles who wanted to create chaos in turkey and they were supported by the pkk. and their actions were targeting fundamental rights. mohammed jamjoom is following developments for us in killis on the border with syria. mohammed, it seems very clear that the turkish government is bringing together both isil and the pkk as target did. >> reporter: >>> airstrikes from turkey take off from basis in turkey but also in going after the pkk. in fact, we heard a short while ago that the prime minister called the president of iraqi kurdistan and told him that so long as the pkk continues attacks in turkey and on turkey that these types of bombing raids will go on, turkley take any measures necessary to protect its borders. this is the rhetoric we have been hearing from so many turkish officials. they have aligned messages trying to create a narrative that what the turkish government is doing is protect. they have g

the ypg is now accusing turkey of repeatedly attacking their units across the border, an allegation turkey denies. the syrian kurds also accuse turkey of declaring war against i.s.i.l. as a owner coverup. >> they are trying to use the aggravation with daesh to target kurds political parties. this is something unacceptable because we have to differentiate between terrorists and the political movements that demand for humanitarian rights for some ethnical groups. >> its decision to also target the spks causing is most controversy. turkey is an active player along the battlefield where yet another coalition is seeming to be forming. >> month long offensive to cut i.s.i.l. supply lines into the town of sarim near the euphrates river. thei.s.i.l. has used the town as a launch pad for its raids on the nearby town of kobani. after washington d.c patty culhane joining us from there. there's been a briefing of sort, although not a lot of information about this so-called i.s.i.l. free buffer zone. what have the authorities been telling you? >> i think the administration felt a little bit taken aback

has there been any reaction to turkey's decision to hit back at isil fighters? >> reporter: there's been no official reaction. we should be hearing possibly in the next couple of hours from some people from the state department and the pentagon, but they are very reluctant to go into great detail about the operational aspects. american officials have been known to say they have been burned before by the turks in terms of commitments to fighting isil and al-qaeda for that matter in iraq. so this is an issue that is very sensitive. what the americans are saying is that as part of this -- as part of this agreement to increase the involvement of turkey particularly with the use of the air base as a launch point for air strikes against isil the u.s. and its coalition partners will intensify their efforts to prevent isil sympathizers or recruits from actually getting to turkey and thereby going across the border and adding to their ranks. that seemed to be sort of a gesture to the turks sensitivity to the fact that it has been criticized for so many weeks now as being

latest plan proposed by turkey and the u.s. questions about the health of china's economy as shares make their biggest fall in eight years. ethiopia's prime minister defends his country's democratic record against criticism from president obama. and one person murdered nearly every hour. gang violence spirals out of control in el salvador. >> i'm lee wellings with the sports news. lights have gone out in boston and its bid for the olympic flame. >> hello. the u.s. and turkey are discussing a buffer zone along the southern border of syria. against the islamic state of iraq and the levant. accusations that turkey shelled a kurdish village in northern syria. ychg battlingypg. battling nsh syria. in syria. nato will hold an emergency meeting on tuesday to discuss the matter at turkey's request. on the border with syria. >> turkey says it has no plans to send troops across the border into yshes of syria in its fight against islamic state of iraq and the levant those troops are not syria's kurds who the coalition have been relying on

turkey didn't ask for any additional military and nato presence in turkey. what we all know is that turkey is an ally and turkey has a very capable armed forces. >> this has happened in these sort of meetings on a handful of occasions before and most of the occasions have involved turkey. given nato didn't promise anything concrete what was the point of turkey going to all of this trouble and for all of these defense ministers et cetera to turn up? >> well i think really turkey needed to show that it was getting the political backing from nato to go ahead with these actions not just against i.s.i.l. in syria but as we have said against the p.k.k. positions in northern iraq. there is no explicit reference at the end of the that meeting to turkey's actions in northern iraq and other countries individually called for turkey to call restraint in that action but essentially turkey wanted that political backing and that's why it did it. we should also point out although turkey has not called for nato to come in with further military backing from his own armed forc

turkey into syria and syria into turkey. the threat of the isil cells because the border is so porous, now turkey is ponding in this way. the foreign minister stated he wasn't going to get into details as far as which air bases were going to be used by coalition forces at this time. yesterday we heard the same thing from the prime minister saying that there is still an ongoing negotiation. it's a big deal. it's a major shift in tactics and strategy that the turks are going to allow air bases to be used by u.s. forces. we have seen reports that turkish planes will take part in coalition-led bombing raids. just the last two nights turkish planes on their own have hit syria and iraq. now turkey is lumping isil together with pkk saying they are essentially both the same level of threat, that they represent for turkey. it's going to be interesting to see how this develops and how turkey is drown into the serious conflict in the next few days. it's been three months since the first of two earthquakes hit nepal. thousands are in ne

turkey didn't ask for any additional military and nato presence in turkey. what we all know is that turkey is an ally. turkey has a very capable armed forces forces. >> bahrain says explosives used to kill two police officers in a bomb attack on tuesday may have been smuggling from iran and six others injured on the blast on the island south of the capitol. officials said the explosives used resembled those seized at the weekend which were apparently smuggled from iran and bahrain has now recalled the ambassador to tehran. u.n. humanitarian chief warned the situation in syria has worsened in resent weeks and told the security council that violence cutoff most of what little aid was getting in and blamed all sides and in particular criticized the government's of barrel bombs in residential areas. >> over the past weeks, mr. president, violence has continued to escalate across the country causing death and destruction and complicating and severely impeding brave aid efforts. indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks by all parties to the conflict including t