preventing isis from reemerging and from stopping the suffering that the assad regime has inflicted on the syrian people the turkish government and people deserve the gratitude and recognition for the unprecedented hospitality they have displayed in hosting more than three million syrian refugees we recognize the legitimate right of turkey to secure its borders we take it seriously when our nato ally turkey says it has security concerns as to afrin we call on turkey to show restraint in its operation to minimize the in the casualties to civilians and avoid actions that would escalate tensions in that area from the beginning we've been transparent with turkey regarding our objectives in syria our relationship with our nato ally turkey is enduring minister to egypt.

again convey this message to president carter got into the foreign minister today as have many other u.s. officials we have always been clear with turkey that the weapons provided to the syrian democratic forces would be limited mission specific and provided on an incremental basis to achieve military objectives only we have long supported and will continue to support darkest democracy respect for the rule of law judicial independence and open press our source of strength and stability when turkey maintains its commitment to these principles it expands our potential partnership we support the government of turkey is right to bring the perpetrators of the two thousand and sixteen coup to justice it is important to handle these cases in a transparent and fair manner there respects human rights and fundamental freedoms . we continue to have serious concerns about the detention of local employees of

our mission in turkey in about cases against u.s. citizens who have been arrested under the state of emergency we will continue to engage with our turkish counterparts to seek a satisfactory resolution of these cases and we call upon turkey to release pastor andrew bronson and other u.s. citizens whom we believe are being unjustly detained with regard to cirque on gold we believe his release through the appeals process would be both just and appropriate i want to thank again president are one in foreign minister shabaz shoulder for the opportunity to discuss these and many other very very important issues. and for the cooperation we both have been able to show one another in respect and charting a way forward in this relationship the united states truly appreciates our long korean ship with turkey we value it and we look forward to strengthening it as we

move forward thank you. and sound like a sherman harriet daily newspaper and then to me it's just mr tennyson. and mr relationship between tech in the united states america must be going to the most to its most difficult. state times more recently. that is mainly because the united states. supports

providing arms to y. p g p y d y p g. r do you have. any. lucian's. ridicule me. and this also. do you have any proposals to avoid such difficulties being caused to the american soldiers in this interior. india us and. india events that turkish army expands its operations in syria. to ask a question but i think you're asking about. system minister you've said that you decided to take two and steps have you it been able to receive the kind of. assurances from your counterparts that you said

that you expected. and said also. there was. there are news that. you made a proposal to the united states in relation to the why p.g.p. why do you move being moved to the east in parts of you freights and other proposals well if you think about a couple of hours passed all these questions but let you go first we brought forward proposals on how we can address all of the critical issues that are standing between this relationship today and those will be addressed some will be addressed in the joint statement that we will be releasing following this pressure by all. but the foreign minister did touch on a few of those and we we want to work specifically on the issues that are standing between us what we have agreed is our objectives for syria are precisely the same

there are no there's no daylight between turkey and the u.s. objectives defeat isis stabilize the country create stabilization areas so eventually refugees and internally displaced persons can begin to return home and support the political solution for syria there were result in a whole independent democratic syria with no special demarcations dividing syria and with the syrian people selecting their leadership through free and fair elections and we we all share that same objective and now going from this point forward we're going to closely coordinate our efforts against the final defeat of dash we do not have them fully defeated today but we're going to coordinate our efforts against the bottom feet of desh as well as other terrorist groups that are located inside of syria we want to coordinate how to stabilize areas together and

who will who will occupy those areas and the objective in intent is to return these villages these cities back to the composition of people who were there before they were overrun by dash so we're going to address man but first it's one of the first areas we're going to work on the united states made commitments to turkey previously we've not completed fulfilling those commitments through the working group we're going to address that in man but is going to receive priority but it's not just man because we have to think about all of northern syria and we've agreed on certain areas where we'll continue to work together and there we're going to coordinate very closely on supporting the geneva process because ultimately that is the pathway to a peaceful stable syria that improves turkey's security as well on its border when we can achieve that vital piece. secure them thank you

so. as i said in. that i started my words this is this visit is quite critical and it's actually taking place at a critical juncture. meetings since last night. i stocked up on how our expectations are going to be met. and how the united states and expectations are going to be met in relation to. matters concerning their consulate here in turkey although they are working on those issues our expectations relate to threats that we are facing direct threats from y.p. she. i thought attacks that resulted in our people citizens being killed. that are until today around one hundred of our citizens and or

syrians syrians who. live protection would in turkey have been killed by missiles thrown from our friends region by terrorists therefore this working group. and concrete steps to be taken by this working group are extremely important in relation to my p.g.p. id petro terrorist organization diet i sill and all other issues. on the other hand rex tillerson has answered your question relation to men bitch in two thousand and sixteen united states of america has made a promise to the turkey. president obama john kelly that. mr dunn put his still in office made promises and those from the same not being kept there was one occasion when delegation was in white it from us to be

told that the y.p. that why p.g. had actually gone to the east all you creates we were not convinced and we were proved proven to be right. so people need to take steps about these issues we need to be certain that my p.g. has moved and has moved to the east of your great and as rex tillerson said quite. quite well. it is important how. the reorganization of the area is carried out. if y.p. g. takes hold. of these aerials. stability will never enter this area we will work towards making sure that doesn't happen we'll start in

men beach one swimming wife leaves many beach once. we trust is. restated. then we will be able to work towards. peace and stability in the area thank you. and a question from a. microphone. thank you mr secretary there seems to be a little short on specifics here do you agree that you are talking about what you're going to do in the future and you have not agreed on specific steps that will begin starting today and can you explain why it has taken so long for

two allies to come together with an agreement on what seems to be a very basic principle that two allies will not shoot at each other in syria and one will not give the other and ottoman slap are you confident that in the future some of the rhetoric will be turned down and what what has been the hang out and mr foreign minister i wanted to ask you if you agree that some of the rhetoric in recent weeks from yourself in your president has been overheated in unhelpful and also what will it take for your government to finally be confident enough to lift the state of emergency and release thousands of your own citizens plus the american citizens and embassy employees who have been imprisoned on what much of the world considers to be very flimsy evidence thank you. with respect to

how we're going forward and that's what all of the discussion here was about recognizing where we find ourselves and i think is the foreign minister indicated we find ourselves at a bit of a crisis point in the relationship and we could go back and revisit how we got here but we don't think that's useful we've decided in president carter won decided last night we need to talk about how do we go forward the relationship is too important it's too valuable to nato and our nato allies is too valuable to the american people it's too valuable to the turkish people for us to not do anything other than concentrate on how are we going forward and out of the meetings last night and much of our staff was a through the night to memorialize how we're going to go about this and we'll share a little bit of that in a joint statement we're going to reserve a lot of the details because there's a lot of work yet to be done and we and are working teams need to be allowed to do

that work in a very open frank honest way with one another so that we can chart the way forward together and i think that's the important point i want you to take away here is we're not going to act alone any longer we're not going to be us doing one thing and turkey doing another we're going to act together from this point forward we're going to lock arms we're going to work through the issues that are causing difficulties for us and we're going to resolve them and we're going to move forward with the future defeat of isis in terms of coordinating our efforts to complete this this battle which is not yet complete to addressing other terrorist presence inside of syria to stabilizing areas and ensuring that the stability architecture both security forces and governing councils are representative of the conditions that existed in those cities before they were overrun by isis and we have good mechanisms on how we can achieve that but there's

a lot of work to be done people are going to roll their sleeves up we're going to get started very quickly as the foreign minister said we're going to have the first round of these engagements before the middle of march we know we need to move with some. sense of urgency and promise to address this because we have a still we have a serious situation still inside of syria and we need to address that jointly together so i would say the specifics well emerge out of the work as we allow these groups to come together but i think the the objective we've made clear as to what our ject of it was so now we're going to have a team of people working towards putting that in place and implementing it and we've give me a little bit just a little bit of a peek of some of the early. priorities we're going to place for these groups to work on the ship to do it i'm certain that you thank you for your question yes and i thought in that. meeting that's

a. question we've talked about how to resolve. the climate of difficulties experienced as you will if you think that it's in the fevers that we. share with you here today. and why don't and that is have a good day and we will then the birds that we voted in the past in the nation to the difficulties that we were experiencing there should not be put forward as the coals of the problems that we've experienced between our countries in this. what we say i might use importance to. address the concerns of people said. to me. that in addition and we can channel those. emotions those.

perceptions of our people yes so. declarations by by us by our president. must be taken in that context. it was. in relation to the extra ordinary rule. the state of emergency in turkey has not resulted in the restrictions of. the mental rights in turkey. the state of. emergency in turkey has been. put in place after. after a. failed coup attempt an attempted coup in europe some countries trying to. put in place emergency rule

after a single terrorist. attack in my county turkey has. got them up i think. it. continues to. rule. and. every human act every decision taken within the emergency room have been in. compliance with european. criteria international criteria. those decisions. continue based on those principles not by the imposition so the european union or europe or international pressures or internal political pressures we do.

so so we have been listening there to the turkish foreign minister member that the trouble and the us secretary of state rex tillerson addressing the media and the turkish capital ankara after a meeting between the two of them and also a meeting between to listen and turkish president of the one they have of course a number of very serious issues to discuss including syria turkish involvement in syria and the u.s. support for kurds who turkey have been opposing our correspondent. is joining us live from on current now and both foreign minister shaul of and rex tillerson not shying away jamal from the issues they don't agree on and in fact the many ways in which they disagree but both also saying that they are committed to working together from now on. well really this was

a press conference march the peace and international diplomacy in that it was very heavy on rhetoric but extremely light in terms of substance or content because what both foreign ministers are such a states had to say was how strategic how important how enduring this relationship is and was and will be between the united states and sarky but they're still to exactly specify how they were going to overcome the huge stumbling blocks or roadblocks rather in this relationship bar obviously the mention that there is going to be some sort of mechanism as they said but what the mechanism is these working groups that will be discussing things how they will agree what they will compromise on none of that has been released obviously rex tillerson said that you know his people and obviously their counterparts would have to roll up their sleeves and get to work and there's a lot of work to be done they didn't shy away from maybe. highlighting just how

significant the division is but they did try and kind of patch things up and say well you know at least we are still working together it's of refuses to choose upon some of the most important messages that came out was to listen saying that the alliance between washington and the anchor was not one that was simply based on time or opportunism but it was timing during one that's was strategic and out of choice and not out of convenience out of conviction rather obviously than soccer side also spoke of the need to maintain some sort of a relationship of the really the big questions here is how will they agree to divide things up in syria what they will be doing without so much going on all of these things were not really did deliberate sit down in terms of details yet on what they were lacking and details they certainly made up for and very language about the relationship that's historic ties we will never leave it there with you from the album we are going to get more on this but. but i have faith heart of the

institute so we are now way saying of this joint statement that they said that they'll release no information yet but they have given us some hense on the things that they'll be working together on including a big issue which is moving kurdish forces making sure that kurdish forces are moved to the east of the euphrates well it seems that there are two parties are really committed. to the principle of the relationship and to the joint relationship. and said clearly in has told we have the same exact objectives in syria but how does that translate to really the specifics that's not . it's not politically or how this is going to be resolved because moving could this when the shares for a member of the eastern part of the year for its that's a key deadline for for turkey will not make any concessions on this it

started the whole military operations to remove them from the wisdom of the efforts over so at the end of the day in the godless of the mechanisms that they're talking about. some concrete actions such as moving the could dish militias to the eastern part of the you for defense will have to be made and i thought it was interesting on this point that not only did foreign minister charlie sure do say that this is a promise that the u.s. has made in the past and has not kept and the secretary of state rex tillerson actually agreed with him on that said so can we say some cooperation on the stand well exactly i mean this is the promise that was made during obama administration and that's what the three go to drastically action actually from turkey when the united was there is announced in january that they're building this force of fifty thousand. militias and they're not on bond. it's number one in members

actually because also if even ones mentioned. the. president said that we are calling on this train that's. a whole he is also not given up on either which is of was the part of it the reds as well so it's not honestly clear how this is these issues that are going to be sort of out and that's why they lifted the very big without any specifics but the surprising. speaking thing that image and this is of how strong actually the ghoul an issue is in these talks i mean the whole tension in the build up of this tension started about syria but now the senate saying that we have the same objectives in syria but on the golan issues the positions are so all far away from each other. and no one made even a commitment to the principle like to the questions about the rule of law lifting the emergency rule until he remained an issue very interesting that is if your

state said that they support turkey. seeking justice with the perpetrators of the attempted failed coup but they also called for transparency mr frey has i'm afraid that is all the time we have for now but thank you very much for your time and he will have this on this thank you. and we'll have more on this with peter dopy in just a few minutes to stay with us. once held in one of australia's toughest detention centers now a world renowned surgeon when he's follows dr moon. has returns to his hometown baghdad to give amputees the hope of walking again at this time on al-jazeera business updates brought to you by qatar airways going places to get.

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