step by step just as we have prevented a terror corridor from being formed along our border with drabble us and bob operations. we've launched a military operation into the northern africa province of syria an operation in my beach will come after our friend. the promises made to us have not been kept up to now so nobody can object if we do what is necessary. for let's talk to dorian jones our correspondent in istanbul dorian with this news that there is escalation are there also signs that turkey is preparing to send large number of ground troops into syria well that is the message coming from ancora the turkish prime minister have been really yield to him announced the ground operations could start as early as sunday that would appear that the turkey's expediting this operation there was the expectation that this ongoing ground strikes against the syrian kurdish militia who continue for several days if not weeks and that's because this is a very mountainous region the syrian kurdish militia are a very entrenched and well dug in and its support was seen as key to softening up the operat

step by step just as we have prevented a terror corridor from being formed along our border with drabble those and bob operations. we've launched a military operation into the northern afferent province of syria an operation in mamby it will come after offering. the promises made to us have not been kept up to now so nobody can object if we do what is necessary. ok for more we're going to talk to door injun's our correspondent in istanbul adoring are there any signs at this point that turkey is preparing to send large numbers of ground troops into syria. no not yet and i think that what's going on is a very sustained air bombardment already over one hundred targets have been hit according to the turkish military this bombardment is expected to carry on for several days possibly even weeks and the reason why is that this is a very mountainous region the syrian kurdish militia are believed to be very well dug in and the turkish military do see that air strike is the key to the success of this operation they will be looking to continue to bombard this area backed up by artillery for some ti