turkey is very serious and i think what is being perceived by turkey on its southern front is an attempt to box the country and so this deal really has i would argue and i guess central value for the country in fact we have seen elements in the turkish military including the chief of the turkish navy currently they have been advocating for such a deal for about 10 years so this is not new and this is not a temporary tactical shift but a natural extension of that intention which has been the case for quite a while and of course there are other considerations domestically we cannot disregard the fact that this president our no one is rallying its support base with such moves we have seen a great deal of support for that the or the mest agreed some 85 percent of the population support turkey's actions in the mediterranean and we also saw in the parliament that deal being passed by the opposition parties with record breaking speed in one business day in fact so this is an indication of the the domestic dimension also involved which is important but of course not the only consideration we're

as far as the republic government once request assistance from the turkey turkey including even brown dress do you think it's. a no no because for sending the ground troops it requires an other result which should pass from the turkish parliament but the turkish parliament so far has ratified as an agreement on it technical as assistance to the. polit government but if it requires if the circumstances inside libya gets very complicated because there are too many interventions inside libya including france russia turkey egypt united arab emirate if it things got was very complicated probably turkey may brink the issue to the parliament for sending troops so it's possible interesting says our guest from ankara to see perhaps turkish troops in libya let's bring in norful if we can will it intensified turkish role help bring a close to this conflict or is it going to inflame it more do you think norful yes 1st of all we have to see to say that somehow the ground's action and reaction towards supporting the jna actually is mirroring the way put in is supporting after troops. we have to. sa

when it comes to turkey turkey none none of the officials of turkey they have questioned the turkey's membership in india nato there is no such problem no such discussion point for the turks but when we look at the european countries we see that several years ago they have initiated a new defense and security policy which is called pascoe so probably france and some other european countries they want. the united states to intel fear to involve less in the security structure of europe but this is not how we see it we we as turkey we still see nato as a strong deterrent military institution and alliance which got anti the security of the european continent and we are claiming that the security of europe starts with turkey so turkey has to be part of this decision in terms of struggling against any kind of challenges and threats directed to europe and nato mako us said earlier that nato should stay that it's not obsolete but when you have. the president of the u.s. asking nato to further embrace russia when nato was established as a deterrent against russian growing influence in places l

turkey 1st tried to purchase u.s. patriots it didn't get a favorable deal the financial conditions were very bad there was no technology transfer turkey was put on about a 50 month waiting list if it approved the sale and even after the sale even after the deal was signed there was no guarantee that congress was going to approve the sale so turkey didn't want to risk its air defense system on a patriot that could quite possibly never be delivered so it reopened the tender at 1st it was in talks with china that didn't happen that deal fell through and then there was the s 400 s. for hundreds a very good air defense system i think frankly it's superior to the patriot the price is cheaper and it came at a time when turkey russia relations were improving so it was a natural step forward to bind that relationship even better going forward mr emu said to add a few minutes ago that nato provides you with a perfect security guarantee why do you need to buy an additional security and against who against what turkey wanted its

well turkey and the g.n.a.s. signed security agreements last month under those deals ankara agreed to give training and equipment to the libyan military and supply a quick reaction force of tripoli asked for it a separate agreement on maritime boundaries was also signed and that angered greece and raise concerns among several mediterranean countries tensions have already been running high between athens and ankara over drilling for natural gas off the coast of the divided island of cyprus greece says the accord violates international law turkey rejects that accusation saying it's protecting its rights in the eastern mediterranean now libya's warring sides are backed by different countries which provide them with military supplies despite a u.n. arms embargo the united nations recognize government led by prime minister phase assad raj is backed by most western nations as well as qatar and turkey the government of national accord or d.n.a. as we've mentioned is based in the capital tripoli that's in the west now in

turkey wants its own air defenses. as well under its own control and it's been after the pictures for more than a decade and when it didn't get it like i said yes 400 was a very logical alternative it's also good to diversify your weapon per weapons per kiran portfolio you shouldn't just be buying weapons from one or 2 countries when you're a member of a collective security treaty that supposedly covers all your security needs and it's just difficult to understand why would you spend enormous amount of resources on the sensually following 2 security roads now the united states has been threatening turkey with cots sanctions for quite some time but it's been 5 months since the 1st systems were delivered to turkey and cots still hasn't been. apply do you think it will ever be that's a good question and i think katz is slowly causing a problem for the united states because it's now seeing more and more of its allies . taking a step towards buying russian weapons we're seeing india we're seeing saudi arabia the united arab

however when they criticize trump for not being hard enough on turkey. well it's not just democrats there are republicans who are outraged at the way in which president trump has been solicitous towards what they perceive to be turkey's bad behavior on october 29th with which happens to be turkish republic day. the house of representatives passed in an overwhelming bipartisan fashion 2 resolutions one recognizing the armenian genocide in a 2nd one calling for sanctions to be applied on turkey there's very little these days that the house of representatives does that in a bipartisan manner but nevertheless turkey and its actions in northeastern syrian a number of other actions including the purchase of the russian s 400 air defense system has brought house democrats and house republicans together as well as prominent senate republicans and senate democrats just yesterday senator chris van hollen a democrat from maryland and senator lindsey graham one of the president's staunchest supporters was a republican from south carolina the very strong letter to se

know what tomorrow can bring and nato is still important to turkey turkey is very important to nato alcohol of mistery month very optimistic knowledge we have to leave it there thank you very much for sharing your thoughts with us today thank you our viewers can keep this conversation going in our social media pages ask for me and the team we hope to see her again same place same time on a world apart. in this community there are people who believe that it's ok to sell fractional food online it's really hard there are no jobs and you see that i've got kids and ask and as a parent. i can come up with lots of arguments there's a lot of conflict within the game and between the most of the conflict i would say revolves around money and most of them money is made. close one you know the children's clothes he know each other and this could be just the state of california alone to make $6000000000.00 you have to prison complex just to get some point in your life where. you don't care anymore no i cares about you so you don't care mind anything. the globalization the dollars a piano that's

turkey is demanding its nato allies treat the syrian kurds of the wind. as terror they say you know you should see them the way we see them in turkey have a valid point. well it to some extent it does the why p.g. is a group that is directly linked to the p.k. k. a kurdish turkish terrorist organization has been waging a campaign of violence against turkey since the mid 1980 s. though when you separate the 2 groups the y. p.g. from the p.k. kate once hard pressed to make the argument that the why p.g. has directly targeted turkey or turkish civilians or the turkish military the why p.g. has been allied with the united states in the fight against the islamic state nevertheless this doesn't diminish the turkish sense of threat coming from the fact that the why p.g. is so closely associated with the p k k we you look at turkey a nato it looks in the eyes of many as to be the black sheep of nato but it's also we have to say it's had success on playing hardball recently we're going to have a look at that issue in just a 2nd but 1st i want to go back to the las

more people but ultimately what will turkey do will turkey really turn away all of these people turkey has never actually turned away any oppressed people when and when the opening its doors a last option it will never do so once the 1st are reduced. it is definitely not the 1st option because it is what is available option for that while i think the establishment the 1st option is to make sure that. you know they could they do what it can to their best ability to stop this aggression whether that be being with diplomatic negotiations with russia and other partners however if that's not the that doesn't stop then i think containing the refugee flow within syria and in some of the safer zones will be the 2nd option if it comes down to you know either these people will face death by the hands of the regime and the russia russian forces or your pen to door for them i don't think so turkey will turn away anyone that isn't escaping the death that's dead that's a different issue that's 2 has when it comes to the military and for one project and he will never turn away anyone but i think ther

has achieved but also turkey has agreed on a maritime deal which is basically. a designated zone between turkey and libya's contentious continental shelf basically it would be across from each other where they can actually. carry out joint economic. economy ventures together and be able to control that it so really when you look at these 2 agreements they are a result of what has been happening as a brother in a broader scale in the mediterranean. waters in the east mediterranean for eastern mediterranean for example and with regards to the at alliances between greece israel and egypt and and also if we look at the bigger picture we can see there gyptian and and there you see rivalry against turkey. in the in the region which also has an effect and into fights in libya so whether or not these will actually materialize are really dependent on how far or how long the g.n.a.t. will will stand against after our forces ok let me can i bring in can i bring in mostafa now moustapha already so many different actors have interests in libya and now with this maritime agre

whether it would be a military intervention from turkey or not i would not think that turkey is taken at this present moment of any air strikes one there is a logistical kind of difficulty for 30 to carry that because the air bases are quite not close enough to carry out airstrikes discreetly. and the 2nd thing the g.n.a.t. did not request the on the ground. presence by torrential censor of yet allows their earth sloganeering in a very good boards as well use of from ankara basically or so he signed up to be the guardian and save of the tripoli government can they prevent the tripoli government from losing any more ground hafter yeah probably the turkish support is . in order to keep in power the government of national accord is very important from the perspective of the turkish security interests but let me also remind you that the un backed government inside the tripoli also should be supported by the all countries because that is the country that is the government already u.s. backed government of usually inside libya for this reason if the turkey's a force. enough to keep it in th

strains on nato turkey considers the kurdish wife e.g. militia in northern syria to be a terrorist group but the wife e.g. there are allies of the united states and they were keen to breaking the ice as caliph it or here's french president emmanuel macron with strong criticism of turkey delivered earlier today but is it going to the hospital. and is. this end of the belief on the day. when. they now find it in the. fight with. duty and sometimes they. are. and if you did you know that was the french president there posing the question is my enemy also your enemy if we are both nato members will for more on this bring in steven cook he's a senior fellow for middle east and africa studies at the council on foreign relations in washington d.c. good evening to you steven you know we just heard french president when you were a micron accusing turkey of working with isis proxy groups attached to isis i mean is that true that do we have evidence that turkey is working with groups that work with isis. you know i've never seen any convincing evide

also coming up turkey warns that a new refugee crisis is looming tens of thousands of syrians are slipping attacks fire russian and syrian government forces in the turkish president says his country will not be able to cope with the influx and he's warning of consequences for europe as well. i'm sumi so much going to it's good to have you with us we start with some breaking news a court in saudi arabia has sentenced 5 people to death for the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi it also had a jail terms to 3 additional suspects in connection with the killing of a saudi writer and dissident was never seen again after entering the kingdom's consulate in istanbul last year he was killed and reportedly dismembered inside the building but his remains were never found he was a resident of the united states at the time and he was known for writing critically about the saudi royal family. let's bring in toby cadman now he's an international human rights lawyer who has followed this case closely toby thank you for joining us what do you make of this verdict and what can you tell us about the people

turkey. hom.ceiving support from i am not receiving any support. i provide assistance they can afford. a proxy: this is conflict that splits the middle east and north africa and beyond. the uae, saudi arabia, egypt and russia have all given greater or lesser assistance, but the fear that the government of national cord might be toppled has spurred turkey into action. >> for turkey, the interest is not libya itself. anybody who looks at a map of the mediterranean will see that potentially libya, goes into the uae orbit, is putting a maritime choke hold onto turkey. for turkey libya is the final chance to prevent this chokehold from taking place. reporter: although the libyan gna has ratified the security and military cooperation deal struck with turkey last month, it is not clear what kind of military support turkey might offer libya, or when. but it reinforces the turkish role in libya's future, increasing up a and cooperation -- increasing diplomatic cooperation. >> we are in continued conta

this is d w news coming to you live from berlin turkey warns of a new refugee crisis tens of thousands of syrians have fled fresh attacks by russian and syrian government forces in the it liberated turkey's president says his country will not be able to cope with the influx of warning of consequences for europe to also coming up a plea for help in a box of christmas cards that's what a little british girl found while writing holiday greetings to her friends. than frankfurt missed their chance to end their losing slump against last place out of your cellar dweller dug deep to come away with a surprising victory for the winter break. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us syrian government forces backed by russian planes and other allies are pushing to retake the italy a bridge in the last major bit of rebel held territory in syria and home to $3000000.00 people tens of thousands are fleeing the violence heading towards turkey. turkish president to one fears they could eventually enter turkey which is already home to nearly $3700000.00 syrians the largest refugee population in t

this is the news coming to you live from berlin turkey warns of a new refugee crisis tens of thousands of syrians have fled fresh attacks by russian and syrian government forces in the ad lib region turkey's president says his country will not be able to cope with the influx warning of consequences for europe too also coming up a plea for help and a box of christmas cards that's what a little british girl found while writing holiday greetings to her friends. and in the bundesliga struggling dusseldorf needed a win at home to exit the relegation zone they faced mid table when the only berlin and last minute victory in their last match before the christmas break. well i'm terry martin thanks for joining us syrian government forces backed by russia and other allies are pushing to retake the deliberate and the last major bit of rebel held territory in syria and home to 3000000 people. ends of thousands are fleeing the violence heading towards turkey turkish president regift fears they could eventually enter turkey which is already home to nearly $3700000.00 syrians the largest refugee popu

well there is a growing concern at the prospect of any major deployment by turkey all of turkey's opposition parties are opposed to such a move saying that turkey risk getting call in talk quagmire warning you could even escalate the conflict and that is a concern being voiced by many regional countries saying that any significant deployment by turkish forces in support of the government a government of national called could see reciprocation all countries supporting. forces notably moscow it already has deployed russian mercenaries there egypt is also wanted he could possibly step up its intervention if turkey intervenes and the fear is that turkey's intervention could spark a major escalation and broadening of the conflict dismissing those concerns saying it's within its rights to support the internationally recognized government and is promising that it will not step back next month's meeting between earth one and the russian president vladimir putin is expected to see the future of libya being discussed and that could be key to determining turkey's final decision on whether it deploys or

turkey's president. is that odds with his need to allies who was intervention in northern syria as well and turkey has now signed a cease fire with kurdish forces that is largely centered on the so-called safe sill and that turkey wants to set up on the syrian side of its boredom it says this is to protect itself from kurdish fighters it calls terrorists here's a closer look at the area designated for the proposed safe zone. some of the fiercest fighting against the so-called islamic state happened in syria along turkey's border kurdish fighters helped turn the tide with the battle for co bani which has since become one of the main kurdish centers for turkey that's a provocation. it considers kurdish forces and existential threat. with regard to the establishment of a safe zone for the area to be cleaned of terrorists as a result of a president skilled leadership we go we want to see in the negotiations in. the area is a fertile plain that once grew the grain that fed much of syria about 1700000 kurds li

he tweeted that turkey wouldn't go too far, that he'd keep turkey in check with his "great and unmatched wisdom." turkey began its invasion of northern syria. three days after the phone call with president trump. turkey pounded kurdish villages with fighter jets. and sent in its army, the second big nest nato. turkey she'd little restraint in what it was calling "operation peace spring." apparently undeterred by president trump's unmatched wisdom. as the death toll climbed, criticism erupted across washington and across party lines. with accusations that president trump had done something profoundly unamerican, abandoning a brother in arms. >> if we leave the kurds behind, in their mind and the eyes of the world, good luck having anybody help us in the future to fight isis. >> to just abandon them like that to the turks to come in and slaughter them is not just immoral, it taints our reputation all over the world. >> what we have done to the kurds will stand as a bloodstain in the annals of american history. >> reporter: with forceful opposition from across the political spectrum, presid

turkey it seems that turkey wants to incorporate tunisia. along with other regional countries like syria and qatar in any peace talks in libya according to and he said that other countries like tunisia algeria and qatar. must be part of any peace talks in libya as you know that despite the fact that it. has test on military cooperation between turkey and libya but meanwhile has been keen to call for a cease fire in libya also he spoke about the existence of russian and sudanese medicine raise in libya fighting for the world a lot of the police have to and in this respect he says that turkey is dealing with the only legitimate institution in libya which is the you and the recognize tripoli based government of national accord but on the other hand. according to the un he said that the russian and sudanese miseries are being booted by an. apology which is not recognized by the international community which is not legitimate he means the warlords really have to see that this visit is video important turkey wants to play a bigger bar in the regio

clear what kind of military support turkey might offer libya or when but it reinforces turkey's role in influencing libya's future like with syria russia and turkey have taken different sides increasing their diplomatic leverage and corporation. we russia by the way are in permanent contact with mr seraphina's government with marshall have to we continuously communicate with our partners including those in turkey in europe in other countries in our opinion the best solution would be to find compromise between the 2 sides of the conflict. at the u.n. al-jazeera asked the secretary general spokesman for his take on turkey's military assistance i think the secretary general a couple times yesterday was very clear in his expression and frankly of his i would say is frustration at the situation in libya of the constant flouting by various member states of the arms embargo and of the continued fighting that we're seeing in and around tripoli and other places in the country but that fighting certainly isn't over yet rory chalons al-jazeera any turkish troops deployment would need approval f

it is not in anybody's interest to push turkey out there is a balancing act to keep turkey in the camp so there is some military to military contact and turkey isn't totally in the adversary camp. particularly for europe, this has a lot of implications for security, economics, for refugees we'll see further proliferation of issues. not only in northern syria but around cyprus. trying to settle the north and southern cyprus issue so they can start looking for natural gas off the coast. that's one interest turkish interests are coming into conflict with the rest of europe it is difficult to see where they can square that circle. it is more likely they'll see these things move along. to bring it back, from russia's point, they want to sow division and discord but at this point, they don't have to do much the politicalcontra dictions are such that russia can sit back and watch. >> it has also expanded so much. i want to bring you some tweets from the u.s. president. we saw him walking across the lawn he must have pulled out his phone and tweeted. he said i enjoyed my meeting with the uk pr

turkey relations which are at a low point. what has happened is that there has been the usual for the house resolution the usual pressure that comes from the administration. was not really as political for a number of reasons one is practical right the house was dominated by a democratic majority so the white house most likely don't want to fight a battle that it knew is not going to win at the same time it's important to note that in the senate it was a different situation you do have a republican majority and the white house did try you know twice to stop it 3 times to stop it and then at some point. that was not tenable either for a couple of reasons one is that. this is not. 2000 this is not the 1990 s. this is not a period where you know the scholarship awareness of the armenian genocide nationally and internationally has reached this level so it's very difficult to really for congressman for senators to come out and say you know what you know is there are there are we don't know the history we don't you know so that that

a turkish patrol unit in the northern syrian city of raw sound mind on the border with turkey this is where omkara wants to resettle syrian refugees from turkey in a so-called safe zone as quickly as possible. the safe zone would stretch about 100 kilometers westward from rahsaan mine to. but the area lacks housing hospitals and schools so is seeking money from the european union to fund construction work something the representative of president karen o. wants a k.p. party in the turkish border town of jail on pain are this keen to emphasize this that they should support turkey so that all the refugees can return to their homeland and live the good life is through an ambition peace. but there have been repeated explosions within the planned safe zone several people have been killed blames the kurdish y.p. jean militia others say the so-called a small mix state is responsible. kurds in the region are deeply skeptical about whether that zone should be regarded as safe. relationship with the current situation the united nations should really intervene. many kurds make it clear that turk

turkey relations and the fact that turkey is considered to be an important ally what happened over the past couple of months is that that veto became untenable for a number of reasons on the ground which essentially created the possibility for this of a solution to pass in a congress in the house and the senate that already has been very open to acknowledging darlene genocide and constantly been forced to defer to the president on issues of foreign policy know who benefits most on this i believe that 1st and foremost i believe that justice and truth for the armenian genocide in general a more open confrontation with the past is the 1st beneficiary however it's important to realize that this is not happening in vacuum there is a political context and political consequences for this you mentioned the truth essentially is about the fishery but there are also some suggestions that congressional leaders passed the resolutions as a bit of a ratchet beautician for ankara is going to have to be at the a fanciful northern syria if that's indeed the case isn't bad enough wrong to the memory of t

and then from turkey to progress . i've always. believed that if you cation as we're going to find my future and education is how i can reprieve myself my country my family where i'm from. i knew the kind of stereotypes that people have about refugees of being on the unskilled i just feel like when people look at me i don't want them to define me would be fairer to have the labels you should not expect but both persons on the u.k. to just because they came from a refugee background you don't expect them to be broken in south than like you know the past like they can be do you offer your best support like try to be a kind of stick around but also expect that you're treating just a normal human being with normal impressions and hopes and dreams. oh i just quickly update you on the top stories now turkey's president says his country can't handle another flood of refugees from the war in syria or egypt want to saying that 80000 syrians are now heading towards the turkish border to escape the province series last rebel held

and then from turkey to america. i always. believed that if you cation is what's going to define my future and education is how i can represent myself my country my family where i'm from. i knew the kind of stereotypes that people have about refugees of being on the hated unskilled i just feel like when people look at me i don't want them to define me with these kind of ferreted for labels it should not expect that this person is on the vacated on skill just because they came from a refugee background you don't expect them to be broken in south than like you know the past like they can be you offer your best support and like try to be the kindest you can but also expect that you're treating just a normal human being with normal impressions and hopes and dreams and you can find much more on our website the address for that is w w w dot al-jazeera dot com. this is al jazeera and these are the top stories thousands of people are fleeing syria's last rebel stronghold of live province government forces and their russian a