position well if they return the ruling party will lose its majority. italy's prime minister is condemning a shooting by a far right supporter saying hatred and violence will not be allowed to divide the nation six african immigrants were injured in the central italian town of my chair after a suspect is in police custody. the palestine liberation organization is moved to cut ties with israel p.l.o. leaders met in ramallah in the occupied west bank on saturday they've ordered the palestinian government to draft a plan to cut off political economic and security contacts it's been growing tension since december when u.s. president donald trump recognized jerusalem as israel's capital and palestinians want these jerusalem to be a capital of a future state the us president says that the classified memo written by republican congress members claes even the probe into links between russia and his

presidential campaign in a tweet he said he was totally vindicated describing the investigation as a witch hunt the f.b.i. previously expressed concerns about the accuracy of the documents it's told to al-jazeera now. they're the children of jailed chinese criminals with nowhere else to go one shelter is giving them a home one when he speaks the children growing up with their parents behind bars at this time when al jazeera. english you can. see. geopolitically place between east and west turkey plays a hugely important institute or crawl in many of the region's crises and conflicts not to mention developments around the world. and ankara this week i'll be speaking to the talkers for minister will be answering questions about the ongoing war in

syria the g.c.c. crisis and the fallout from u.s. president donald trump's decision to recognize occupied troops in them as the capital of israel all of this is. talks to al-jazeera. researchers over to thank you very much for talking to al-jazeera let's start by talking about the war in syria your country is in the middle of a military operation now inside syria an operation is called operation olive branch now this is the second such operation in just the same amount of years before that there was the euphrates shield operation what is the end game of your military intervention inside syria during the. operation you create this shields we defeating terrorists there are different terrorist groups in the country and it was a very successful operation it became

a kind of safe zone for the refugees and i.d.p.'s and we are supporting them in that area as well and there have been white p.g.p. kicky terrorists in africa and asia. and they were sending harassment fires and the rockets to turkey to different parts of turkey and it became a serious threat to our security and also to our borders we want them we want to countries who have been engaged with them nevertheless they increase the harassment fires that's why we launched this operation and it is in the line every day international law and also un. charter as well as related un security council but your critics say that turkey is essentially invading syria that you don't want to occupy syrian land than annex it is part of

some sort of larger expensive project and it's not your intention just to there is normally there is no other country in the region or beyond supporting. serious there is territory turkey and soul into more than turkey and even in sochi and also in astana in moscow if you look at the all these statements and the joint declarations you see that and yet for. unity and territory and take it off the country on the y.p. g. in the the kurdish fighters there are video has emerged recently showing american made weapons that has been captured from these kurdish fighters by the f.s.a. now these y.p. g. fighters and their allies have not only been fighting you or you have not only been fighting them inside syria but they have been fine rockets inside turkey which is not true six civilians being killed can you explain to me how it is that turkey

still considers the united states as an ally if it is the united states that has made no secret of its support for kurdish fighters who are essentially killing your own civilians how is how are they considered to be an ally they're not captured weapons those weapons have been given by the united states to wipe each year so we have actually asked united states not to give the weapons they did we asked them to stop and president trump promised out of that one. too that they will stop giving weapons to this organization and at the last phone conversation between two presidents president trump told the one that they stopped they have stop giving weapons to this organization these rockets this weapons used by y.p. g.n.p. kicking. you know most of them are given by the united states but there are also

weapons coming from. different european countries western countries as well or from other countries but the u.s. state department has said that it still considers the y.p. ji as an ally in the fight against ice or doubt and this is my question i mean ok now you're saying there's verbal commitment from the u.s. that they will stop or they have stopped supplying weapons but in the end of the day the u.s. and turkey are meant to be nato allies in the end of the day the u.s. make use of turkish air base interlink air base why why have you not been more forceful in making the u.s. troops between its ally and between a group that you consider to be a citizen is moot double stand that particle that you know our fight against terrorism we see this double standard in the united states in the united states even. then secretary of defense carter and also the current chief of general stuff now part admitted there and still they still are

adamant that there is no difference between kicky and white b.g. if there is no difference that they are you at mit it means that both of them are terrorist organization this is the double stand that in europe also many political parties politicians and even some countries are supporting. human p.k. which is listed by european union as well just because they share the same ideology of marxist communist lens i don't wish it so this is unfortunately teria for many different political parties and the politicians and the countries. and how can we defeat terrorists with this understanding and with those kind of double standards this is not only a problem of the u.s. which is a very serious. prior knowing in the war that they're fighting or all sorts of terrorist organization in the war but in syria they are collaborating with that

there is sort of an assertion where what will come back to turkish u.s. relations near the end but i just want to ask another question about syria here another war has gone on for seven years almost up to a million people been killed more than five million refugees now your government has always said that it supports the syrian people's right to freedom and it supports their quest for for for democracy there not only have you you said that in statements but you host more than three million refugees inside turkey but now it seems that you according to some of your critics that you no longer care about this is a real struggle for freedom because for example aleppo which was held by the rebels essentially fell into the hands of the the rich assad regime because turkey stopped supporting the the rebels there and similar scenes in other places inside syria your critics say that you are more concerned about the success of the estancia

agenda and more concerned about maybe appeasing your newfound relationship with russia and iran then you are with the syrians they accuse you some of the syrian rebels of selling out i don't see any opposition any syrian groups cruising for took i know that some neighboring countries are not happy with the role that he has been playing and we were only the country actually help those syrians and the opposition. to ever create. them from a level. and we'll work with russia and russia actually delivered what they promised the vacuum into them from aleppo when they go to italy and then it'll start to being bombed from the sky it's true it's true that our relations i don't ignore that but it doesn't mean that turkey has changed or because turkey has changes position and the opposition says. hi negotiation committee and

syrian national committee syrian national kurdish committee and others they all know that only turkey has not change its standing and this position and its support to opposition what is the aim of the us and what is the aim of the search east what is the outcome of the search the aim of the search actually to take to some confidence building measures or steps ok also to console the date the cease fire and the escalation zones and cessation of the hostilities yes there are some violations in need and we asked the grantors of the regime to stop that because there they got on tours i would like to ask a question this generation on the ground isn't it better than a year year and africa the situation a year in africa before aleppo and during aleppo now we are very much disturbed

with this while oceans and this is a legitimate concerns of everybody including the opposition and the civilians living there and now we are deploying officer is that look at the outcome of the sochi and over the actually outcome. the outcome of the search and. we have been doing our best to interrogate us then a process and such a process to a genie one and if you look at the joint declaration in sochi it is referring to geneva process it is referring to the un security council resolution two to five four and from now. those meetings will be have in geneva and we have them also to establish the two or working group on the constitution we have given the lease to the demonstrator and then is dead

demonstrable form this community or working group so all these efforts are helping us and the syrians actually to pursue it and to reach a political settlement to be their political settlement any itchiness on the ground cannot be sustained and cannot be consolidated so we have to focus on both sides ok us donna and the political process ok let's let's move on to another hot topic in the region and that is drusilla marching illegally occupied jerusalem as the united nations considers it to be. president wrote a paper one warned that if the united states went ahead and considered or acknowledged and recognized us from the comfort of israel that turkey would cut its ties with israel what is the status of relationship between turkey and israel now that the decisions we made three it normalize our relations with israel and we put three conditions they met all these three conditions and. after that and

when they were normalizing they asked whether turkey will continue criticizing israel he said yes if israel while it's their international law and if they continue illegal settlements as well as attacking. palestinians in gaza or west bank turkey will be against that and turkey will criticize israel so normalizing the relation doesn't mean that we admitting what israel is doing or or what israel will do and last june you remember what happened . in jerusalem and president are gone call president of israel we asked them to stop it and we stood very strong all together and they did stop it now it is the decision of the united states and you saw how they were isolated in new

york at the u.n. so the entire wall rejected. decision of the united states and at the security council also so this we will continue our efforts all together not only as turkey of course turkey is leading this role particularly in the muslim world because we are the. person with the chair of the organ at the council i see but i just want to ask you one thing this is specifically this threat that the president's made that turkey would cut off ties with israel if trump recognizes to some of the capital the president adamant made this statement after the decision of two united states that before the decision but still those options and see if if there's still the relation and we have the embassies here but if this generation. becomes morse in the future and if israel continues while asian status off

to east jerusalem and out goods or of course we should all together review our position and also our relation ok on the i see that is the organization of some of conferences which is the umbrella body of muslim countries turkey hosted an extraordinary summit right after that decision took place in jerusalem in istanbul rather the summit at the start of that summit the president of iran he showed maps . historical maps of palestine which showed how design is project had been stealing palestinian land over the years now this summer it's final communique and obviously turkey is not the one who writes it it's all of the oil seizure but the final communique was seen by many in the arab and muslim world is very weak do you see how such a weak statement or the statements that are made by muslim majority countries and arab countries it is the weakness of these statements and their stance this is what

gives the green light for the cologne least expansionist project that's taking place in palestine first. statement was that week ok i don't know according to the two us three two leaders or to the room two if you speak to the people in the streets i mean i didn't get close first. american is it is not weak secondly the follow up this. was a joint statement communique and what happened in new york and the resolution that we table together with human. and was adopted actually was the first follow up and concrete are come of this meeting and also joint statement but as i said at the beginning and only the resolution was adopted at the un general assembly is not enough or cannot be.

on the step def or we should continue our a force that is no problem with the. joint statement or joint dic that ration but we need to implement them you need. also follow up them and i i hope and i read actually other muslim leaders also there to show this kind of maps as out of the ground it was real and i they also stand as strong as they. and turkey and when i went to new york and i said that was off and better those of some muslim countries actually were not dead because of the threatening and the pressures they left new york i want to ask you about of the resolution trees they support the resolution but their ambassador this couldn't stay in new york because of the threatenings and the pressure coming

from. a country so one one of those countries the many people notice their absence particularly in the icy summits to place in istanbul was saudi arabia sent a low level minister to represent them now what was so outrageous for many people in the in the muslim world was that's venezuela which is not even a muslim country was represented look i don't want to make any comment about any specific country but that movement. actually is watching what's happening and how the each country is behaving and also leaders are brave enough. to stand against this decision or saw to defend the status of the outputs also to defend palestinians but i don't want to make any comment about any specific country ok thank you let's move to the g.c.c. unfortunately the region that turkey finds itself in is fraught with many conflicts

and crises now the gulf as you know has been in a crisis for seven months now since the united arab emirates behind egypt and saudi arabia imposed a land sea and air blockade on qatar in june two thousand and seventeen your country has played actually a very big role in the g.c.c. crisis in that many people believe if it was not for turkish troops in qatar that maybe saudi arabia the u.a.e. would have invaded qatar. and it is your strong support for part of that has prevented the military conflict what's your take on this well if qatar at taking any decision against any countries we will be against that. too and did this edition. decision against qatar was not fair we made it very clear at the beginning and many kling's and also conditions one of the conditions was actually to close the turkish bases in qatar there are also bears of other european and western countries why the brother countries are not asking qatar to close those bases but

on that turkish base what i am trying to say that it was a very unfortunate situation it has been over and fortune the station we don't want to see such a division in g.c.c. or in the muslim world and stability in g.c.c. is so important for all of us and there are some claims and accusations and so far not even one single evidence has being. shared. they told us that they will send all the evidence says we haven't received anything and each time i see anybody from kuwait from leadership i mean i asked them whether they have received any evidence about these accusations they say no because kuwait is the mediator country and therefore it was a very much political decision and unfortunately. it

didn't. serve. the interests of any countries in the region or in sight so i hope they will overcome this situation soon and we still believe that. saudi arabia can eat actually this process and to overcome this situation well i mean as you were engine quit has been leading mediation you in your country has also tried in the very beginning actually a couple of days before the siege was announced president and one sent envoys to riyadh and the how to try and resolve things as things were escalating i went but personally and one of the interesting things though is that when you follow saudi media egyptian media united arab emirates media they have actually been attacking turkey is one have been very insulting as well just a few days ago very close friend of the crown prince and saddam from been some man

who heads the saudi lobby in the u.s. some and sorry tweeted a picture of a dead sudanese person in sudan from many years ago claiming this was a party killed by turkish troops inside the high in a clear attempt to saw disc. rageous a muslim first and foremost must be honest person ok. this is. not the case we see. since i became foreign minister in many muslim countries ok secondly they all expect to support them whatever the decision or action that they're taking and they put pressure too many countries particularly muslim countries to take a site during this crisis and they put their pressure to somalia process and they threaten somalia and someone had rejected this is the dignity of the somalian

people and why are you there why then why are you trying to divide the muslim world then doom you have your only issue. and then they when you don't say that what they what they they are doing these right and then they don't like and they attack you these are the baseless accusations and one more problem. i think they don't like that one is that much property well let's finish on your relationship with the u.s. for a moment there appear to be warming between turkey and the united states in the early days of the trump administration but the reality now is that maybe the relationship couldn't have been worse the u.s. has imposed travel restrictions on circs and you have reciprocated with similar ones on americans till now the u.s. harbors the man that you accuse of attempting a coup in turkey is there any light at the end of this what seems very dark tunnel

in u.s. armor tarkus relations normally we don't have any problem with any allies need to read us nor read european allies but they have been learning one thing that if there is any problem with turkey or if they have if they take an action against turkey it will be reciprocated by tech and turkey has change and turkey will never a boy any at that point ok and this is the dignity of the turkish nation and secondly yes we have been passing through a not easy years in our relations with the united states their support to white p.g. and development they have been given which is a terrorist organization and pausing a direct threat to turkey secondly after the attempted coup we ask united states to accept that i had to like glenn who's the leader of the fed

the terrorist organization so far they haven't and particularly these two issues. have field and untie american emotions and sentiments in turkey and overall. there is a lack of trust as i told my colleague rex tillerson. then we met in paris in rank who were also when we spoke on the phone yesterday to negotiate or does discuss any issue or to take any joint action first we need to rebuild this truss and the mutual trust this is the problem right now and you has us and this administration particle the president trump and tillerson also have been told in telling us that they are. there for normalizing relations

and strengthen ties yes we are also for that. but you need to get rid of all these legitimate. turkey and turkey this is strictly. for thank you very much for talking to al-jazeera thank. you. february on al-jazeera south korea has the twenty eighteen winter olympics can records be broken al-jazeera will bring you the latest from pyongyang china the big picture examines the present day crisis in venezuela by exploring the divisions rooted in its past senior officials will meet to discuss the biggest security challenges facing. will be nine from the munich security conference partition

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