. >> andrew fink el, wrote a being book turkey what everyone needs to know. let's start there, what do people need to know about turkey? >> the biggest economy in the region, very strategically placed, they need to know there's a strong man government here which pretty much does what it wants. >> in fact in terms of press freedoms, turkey a country that straddles the east and the west, it's really a place where you feel boast asia and western but in terms of press freedoms, it is close to the bottom of the list in the world. >> that's right. it's the one european nation which freedom house has declared not to have a free press. the government monitors very closely what's said, it tries to control its own domestic press and it basically puts pressure on dissident press to toe the line. >> and that's something we can do an entire show on, but what this has meant to tell us is that turkey is a complicated place in this battle against terrorism, complicated place of the battle against i.s.i.l. in theory it is a member of nato, as mary told us a western-facing cou