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center for research and policy studies in istanbul on skype matthew brize a former white house official and u.s. diplomat and in moscow glenn dyson professor of international relations at the higher school of economics in moscow welcome to the program matthew bryza in istanbul let me start with you if i may i mean we know that ankara has been sending reinforcements to it live to counter a syrian government offensive there how significant is this attack then on these turkish troops and are we likely do you think to see an escalation in the violence with the turkish response. well it's extremely serious from the turkish government's perspective i mean this is 6 people that were killed largest lost in a clash with syrian regime forces that i can recall but in terms of escalation i actually don't think we're likely to see much because the assad regime does not want an all out conflict with turkey turkey does not want to get bogged down in a military conflict with the assad regime and turkey is having to be extremely careful about how the deals with russia with whom it has worked for so long with russia and iran the so-called astonished peace process in syria and with whom turkey has such extensive econo