for the civilian population of a frayne turkey's offensive has been devastating more than one hundred fifty thousand people have been forced to flee for their lives in the last week as turkey attacked the city from air and the ground. we fled to because of the airstrikes in the bombardment of our villages by the turks there is no united nations or international community anymore they have forgotten all morality what can we do is civilians turkey is amongst a country. it is unclear what will become of these people and if or when they will be able to return to the hard times. journalist let america monitoring the situation for us from the kurdish city of erbil in northern iraq vladimir explained to us exactly what is happening in a free right now why was it so important to turkey to gain control of the city. well. there if you didn't want to have any form of cortisol through in northern syria and that's what they also told americans and because there were no russians in africa it was there were no americans and after they could attack the city because russia proved this operation to att

to allan who is in ghazi on tap for us so what is the latest with this offensive and frayne and particular sense turkey has announced that once they accomplish their goals there they're not going to release the city. or what we're hearing from our friend in the last few hours is that people are leaving from a route to the south which has been set up by the free syrian army obviously by the turkish military and people are taking advantage of that again we're talking in terms of thousands of people that are moving out of the city but also the bombardment of our friend has extended so a greater area is no being covered and we're also hearing reports that the free syrian army has started an offensive to the north of the city this would be the first steps in the effort to retake afrin city itself that's led to some very bloody exchanges from what we can gather and as you've said there were a number of people who were killed and injured in strikes overnight and early this morning we're talking. around a dozen people but that number the feeling will go much higher because of the number of people who were inju

turkey has been working towards for two months. the raising of the turkish flag over the town of a frayne in northern syria. the turkish backed rebels entered the town on sunday morning these men have been fighting since january to oust kurdish militia known as the people's protection units. take he says the group is an offshoot of the band p k k terrorist group and as such it's a threat to turkey's national security. across the border in turkey news of the victory was meant to be the jubilation by president and she supposes. most of the terrorists have already fled with their tails between their legs our special forces and members of the free syrian army are cleaning the remains of the traps they left behind in the center of free in the symbols of trust and stability are waving instead of the ranks of terrorists. for the civilian population of a frayne techie's offensive has been devastating more than one hundred fifty thousand people have been forced to flee for their lives in the last week as turkey attacked the city from air and the ground. we fled to because of the airstrikes in the bombardments of our

turkey's conflict with kurdish nationalist is at a boiling point in a frayne a kurdish majority city in syria an ongoing turkish military operation to gain control over the area has angered many kurds and that anger is spilling over into germany people of kurdish origin here say they feel like down by the lack of response from europe now tension between the two communities is escalating. every day more images of carnage and bloodshed in african syria appear on chance of us as computer in berlin he's dedicated himself to the struggle for the independence of his kurdish people you can barely control his outrage. but some things even how would you feel if you saw people injured like this in the field it just keeps going on and especially when you realize it's being done with arms from germany i'm completely disappointed i really am. germany's kurdish minority are taking action not always peacefully german authorities suspect and not just in the berlin office of the not dam which has ties to the p.k. k. . the kurdistan workers party is banned in germany investigators are following up ind

americans turkey started pushing into kurdish held territory marked in yellow in january the green is held by turkish troops and the syrian rebels they support almost two months later they've taken a frayne the next major target is members where kurdish forces are directly supported by u.s. troops then off initiate a medic is you know after controlling the city center of afrin yesterday we completed the most important phase of operation olive branch now we will continue this process with members i know and ras al-ain and chemists leave until we remove all of this card along. with turkey's plan to push further east and directly into the path of u.s. forces the situation on the ground is likely to become even more difficult i would expect the americans to avoid a full scale crisis with turkey and they will. alternative scenarios perhaps a different force to be. created over here it wants. turkey's operation has been criticized by all sides in the syrian conflict. a monday the u.s. state department said while it respected turkey's security concerns the operation against kurdish forces has distracted from the campaign against the remnants of eisel in the area it cools that is serious and gro