let's take you live to stephanie decker who is very close to cabani, and tear gas has just been firedre? >> reporter: yes, there has been a bit of a standoff. union groups came here starting protesting taunting things like the turkish go is responsible for what is happening in cabani, they are giving isil support. it wasn't really that rowdy, but at some people the security forces seemed to have enough, and riot police pushed them back. people have come back, but the water cannon truck has returned. they are really trying to make ab point that theying don't tolerate any of those kinds of messages. there is an issue between turkey and the kurds, something that really has been stirred up here over the past week or so. turkey fought a long civil war with the kurds, but now you have 140,000 of them crossing into turkey. no one is happy about that. so turkey is facing challenges on two fronts. they don't want to be seen as supporting kurdisher fighters that could launch attacks in turkey. >> you are on the border between turkey and syria, and you are very close to this town cabani where we