aminta stage in german politics sunday think you are. the turkish military has struck and quote neutralized more than $100.00 military personnel in the syrian province of the shelling was retaliation for a syrian strike earlier in the day in which 5 turkish troops died the assad regime is now on the offensive in the province the last stronghold of anti government forces in syria the past week has seen a significant escalation in tensions between syria and turkey syrian forces last week killed a number of turkish troops as part of its campaign to retake the province and for more on this now we want to bring in our correspondent dorian jones he's standing by in istanbul good evening to you dorian the turkish armed forces are being hit directly by 0 an army is this kind of a benchmark in this escalation. it is certainly is a very serious escalation as you said this is the latest attack fatal attack on turkish soldiers and again forces were very swift to retaliate bombarding dozens of sites it remains on the clear whether that will be an awf