journalist but american vogue and monitoring the situation for us from the courtesy of city of erbil in northern iraq vladimir explain to us exactly what is happening in a free right now why was it so important to turkey to gain control of the city. well. turkey didn't want to have any form of kurdish self rule in northern syria and that's what they also told americans and because there were no russians in africa it was there were no americans and i think they could attack the city because russia ruled this operation to attack it and so after two months they finally the respect the rebels they and thirty city a three. hundred more than hundred fifty thousand people were displaced to areas outside of that. and now that turkey has claimed i think gain control does this mean that there that there's an end in sight after weeks of relentless fighting while depends on what turkey is going to do because the turkish president there don't always say that we're not going to stop with our freedom we're also going to at that moment we're going to take the whole area on till the iraqi border so t