on wednesday, you had the armed wing of the pkk, the out lied kurdistan party.hey took responsibility for the killing of two turkish police officers whom they say helped isil who collaborated with isil in their attacks on kurds. if the situation is very complicated. there are a lot of variables, but because of all of this turkey has now decided they are going to go after the pkk as well as isil trying to present the government as doing much more to comebad bat what government officials here have been calling terrorism, as prime minister said as president erduwan said. they are saying they are enhancing security measures with the the, with other coalition members. they know they have a problem here and they are trying to put the best face forward. it's really a very complicated situation on the ground here turkey had ahas a very porous border. the spillover has been getting worse and so the turks now feel they really have to do something, put the best face forward and show they are taking a strong line against threats to domestic security. >> mohammed jamjoon tha

or kurdistan workers party positions in the mountains. the p.k.k. declared the ceasefire with turkey dead. turkish officials were not phased. >> whenever we see a dekeys or the vanishing of the threat we will make a reassessment. the third wave of operations are a part of this. this is the major shift in policy. for turkey, i.s.i.l. declared war in the border town of sarouge. turkey's decision to actively engaged has a lot to do with battlefields in northern syria. the government is concerned about i.s.i.l. threatening groups in the stronghold. it is worried about what it sees as the growing strength of syria's kurds. syria's kurds, the y.p.g. is linked. it would be a red line if kurds create a state. officials blamed u.s. air strikes for helping the kurds gain ground. there are those that believe a deal with the united states addressing concerns. >> turkey doesn't want the territory. now it withdraw support. it will not last forever. now the u.s. and turkey are working together. turkey's fear is that syrian's kurds or i.s.i.l. can drive out the opp

it's about making sure this region of kurdistan doesn't exist. time on target in raqqa. >> from the u.s. perspective it's about time incirlik comes on from the beginning. >> as a nato ally it should have been. places inside turkey were supporting i.s.i.l because they still don't control some of those areas across that border. 500 mile wide border that exists between syria and turkey, wide open in certain areas. >> do you envision a more stepped up more aggressive u.s. role in this fight against i.s.i.l, i.s.i.s beyond the training of the 100 or so, i don't know how many are fit to fight now, do you see a more stepped up role for u.s? >> i don't. only because this president is not committed one bit -- >> he's not? >> not committed to -- this possibly opens the door for a syrian strategy which he readily admits he doesn't have. this goes to the next administration making sure the united states -- >> because this president doesn't see a real end game in it? he ran to get united states out of conflicts in that region and doesn't want to invest in ano

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or kurdistan workers party positions in iraq's mountains. the p.k.k.mmediately declared the already strained 2013 ceasefire with turk at dead. turkish officials are not fazed and talk about a long-term fight. >> translator: whenever we see a decrease in or the fan irving of the threat, then, of course, we will make a reassess think. the third wave of operations are a part of this. >> reporter: this is a major shift in policy. for turkey, isil declared war when it bombed a cull tar center in the border town on monday. but many here believe turkey's decision to actively engage in the fight against the armed group has a lot to do with the battlefield in northern syria. the government here is concerned about isil threatening syrian opposition groups in their strong hold in aleppo province. it is also worried about what it sees as the growing strength of syria's kurds. syria's a kurds or the w.p.g. that's link today the p.k.k. controls half the border with turkey. turkey says it would be a red line if kurds create a state in northern syria. officials even b

those operations are also going after kurdistan workers party militants and other marginal leftist groups. so far, 320 people have been detained. we don't know the breakdown. we don't know how much of it is isis and how much of it is the pkk, but we do know that there have been more than 30 foreign nationals that have also been swept up in the detention wave. we don't know where they're from and we don't know which organization they're suspected of being a member of but really in turkey over this last week which started with the terrible move of the suicide attack carried out by isis that claimed the lives of 32 people the fight and the toughening of stance is very, very palpable. >> great insights here. and certainly, when we talk about this fight against the kurdish workers party, the pkk. i have another question for you, just when it comes to the u.s. military now using these air bases in turkey. how significant will that be? >> well the statement was made that turkey is going to take a more active part in the coalition and that the coalition and u.s. would be allowed within a certain

as vigorously as the kurdistan workers party. really not a surprise that this is heapg although this has been a game changer of the day when i.t. comes to turkey. there has been a lot of escalation as far as their fight against i.s.i.l. >> mohammed jamjun there. turkey has had a long history battling pkk or kurdistan workers party. created in 1935, the pkk demanded an independent state for kurds in the region. group began a violent campaign against the turkish government in 1944. 1949 he is captured and sentenced to death but later commuted to life in prison. after secret talks the pkk declared a unilateral ceasefire in 2013. be american kurdish information network he says turkey should try to solve its problems at home before intervening in other countries. >> last month there was an election in turkey and president erdogan wanted 400 deputies to be elected for the -- for his party and then he would become the president of more authority more privileges. and he lost that, and since things have not gone well. even during the elec

the kurdistan workers party. >> talking about that declaring war on the pkk it seems that the coalition partners are distancing themselves from that action. >> reporter: yes, at the end of the day the utle is in a very difficult position, it lists the pkk as a terrorist organization, but it has been the kurds. the kurds have proven to be reliable partners. now, especially here in syria the coalition has been providing air cover to syria's kurds the ypg force turkey considers the ypg an offshoot of the pkk. it did condemn pkk terrorist actions in turkey when it killed two policemen in revenge for the suruc bombing. but at the same time, it's calling for restraint and a very important line coming from an u.s. official saying the air strikes, turkish air strikes against pkk is not connected to the increased cooperation with with the u.s. and turkey. it wants to make clear the coalition strategy is just to defeet i.s.i.l. but turkey's decision undoubtedly has caused some domestic opposition especially from prokurdish parties. they believe that the ruling party and president erdogan is tryin

they will go after groups like isil as vigorously as they go after groups of kurdistan workers party. this has been a real game-changer of a day when it comes to turkey. there has been a lot of he escalation as far as their fight against isil. >> the turkish president urged his country to trust his country and his government. >> these are the steps against our national security. our state and government will take needed action against any attack no matter what it is. it is not only for last night. we'll take the necessary precautions for our nation's security and peace. last night was just the start of this. and we'll keep going on the same way. >> we're a different struggle for now on. we'll do whatever is needed in this struggle. our nation should trust their states. >> al jazeera's roslind jordan has this update from washington, d.c. >> the obama administration is welcoming turkey's decision to allow the military to use two air bases near the turkish border with syria. that's going to make it a lot easier for u.s. fighters to actually launch air attacks on isil targets in northern

meanwhile the kurdistan workers party or p.k.k.ighting for greater power for kurds in turkey and mainly based in northern iraq. the p.k.k. was established in 1987 and battled turkish forces until a ceasefire two years ago, more than 40,000 people have died during that 30-year struggle. turkey and the u.s. and nato all consider the p.k.k. to be a terrorist organization. let's speak now from the kurdish democratic union party or p.y.d. and joins us via skype from the syrian town of kobani and first of all let's clear up one issue that has come up today. the kurds saying turkey has been hitting syrian kurds and y.p.g. adjust and turkey denying that. >> thank you for having me i'm not a member of y.p.g. i'm the foreign minister and part of the general administration in kobani. what happened in west of kobani in the village which is 30 kilometers west of kobani and one kilometer east and according to a statement the turkish forces target ded places of forces of y.p.g. and other groups that coordinated and injuring four fighters. this is

targeting camps belonging to the kurdistan workers party or the pkk. >>> the president signs economic agreements with kenya during his four-day visit to the country. he praised president ke nyetta's attempts to root out corruption in kenya. >>> rescuers found the bodies of 24 people in pakistan on saturday. half million people have been effected by the floods triggered by monsoon rains. >>> tens of thousands of people are still in need of food and clean water in nepal. exactly three months after the devastating earthquake there. the government has promised to relocate them, but that has not happened yet. >> in visits just outside of kathmandu more than hundred people have camped out in a school ground. they're from a village in nepal all of them have lost their homes. landslides have destroyed most areas around their village the river has been eroding whatever remains of their land. this woman thought she escaped the worst of it until she got here. >> my sister gave birth here in the tent. we didn't have the money or the transport to take her to the hospital. but five days on she went

turkey started bombing forces of the kurdistan workers party, known by its acronym p.k.k. they have been fighting for an autonomous region, the pst kk, and the y.p.g. have become america's strongest partners fighting i.s.i.l., they are the ones that stayed and fought when the iraqi army cut and ran. u.s. and its allies listed the p.k.k. as a terrorist group. zeina khodr is in turkey and has the latest on the campaign against the p.k.k. >> for the first time turkish fighters jets targeted the p.k.k. on turkish soil, following an exchange of fch fire between turkish security forces and the groups. over the past few days turkish jets targeted the group across the border in northern iraq. the security situation undoubtedly deteriorating, there has been a number of incidents. the turkish military blaming the p.k.k. for a number of attacks target ghts the police -- targetting the police in a number of areas across the country. the security situation deteriorating, turkey requested an extraordinary meeting from n.a.t.o. allies, it got the political support, the moral support need

the outlawed kurdistan workers party, the p.k.k. has claimed responsibility for killing two turkish police men. the party says that it cooperated with i.s.i.l. to carry out a separate attack. that is an attack in which more than 35 people were killed, our correspondent has met one of the victims. >> reporter: this couple is crushed by survivor's disappointment. their smile has deep pain. >> reporter: i left them there, i left my brothers there how could i have done that. they felt far closer to each other than most cousins. as members. turkish federation of socialist youth associations they plan to cross into kobane, syria, and help the fellow kurds rebuild a devastated city. on monday, as the group held its precedent. in the southern city things were going well at first. ismail grew tired of holding up the banner under the hot sun. in this video you see him move away. then the blast. [ explosion ] >> translation: if i had been cpatient, he says, if i had waited just four more seconds, i would be with my brothers now. like many othe

the campaign has expanded to target bases in northern iraq belonging to the kurdistan workers party or the pkk. it has put an end to the fragile cease-fire bringing fears of renewed violence. >> turkey is at war on two fronts. it's jets are now hitting targets across the border in iraq and syria. a day after beginning an air campaign against isil and syria turkish jets for the first time in years began hitting pkk or kurdistan workers party positions in iraq's mountains. they declared the already 2013 cease-fire with turkey dead. >> turkey has talked about a long-term fight. >> whenever we see the vanishing of the threat, of course we'll make a reassessment. the third wave of operations is a part of this. >> this is a major shift in policy. >> for turkey isil declared war when it was in a cultural center on monday. but many here believed turkey's decision to actively engage in the fight against the armed group has a lot to do with the battlefield in northern syria. the government here is concerned about isil threatening syrian opposition groups in their strongholds in aleppo province.

the outlawed kurdistan workers party claimed responsibility for killing two turkish police men. the p.k.k. claims they had cooperated with i.s.i.l. in an attack that killed 37 on monday. we met one of the victims. >> slumped over and seemingly crushed by survivor's guilt. this man is in deep unrelenting pain. >> i left them there. i left my brothers there. how could i have done that. they felt far closer to each other than most cousins. as members. turkish federation of socialist youth associations they plan to cross into kobane syria, and help the fellow kurds rebuild a devastated city. on monday as the group held its precedent. things were going well at first. ismail grew tired of holding up the beener under the hot sun. in this video you see him move away. then the blast. [ explosion ] >> translation: if i had been patient, he says if i had waited just four more seconds, i would be with my brothers now. like many other members of the kurdish population they are pointing the finger of blame to turkey's government. he is offended by how officials handled the aftermath of the bl

i traveled in kurdistan to irbill, down into the west to outside of kurdistan with the peshmerga a few months ago and saw how the peshmerga working quietly with elements of u.s. and coalition power have pushed isis back. in kir kick they've held their own. there's a sort of continuing battle between the forces in kirkuk and the main isis camp to the southwest. but that's a success. and it would be a mistake not to note it in this discussion and not to think, how do you build on it? the question has been should you send weapons directly to them? that's an issue for ambassador fily's government. can they get weapons into to the kurds quickly enough that that option isn't discussed anymore? the iranians, when you think about how the kurdish forces were rocked in irbill in august/september, how their lines really cracked, how dangerous it was. erbil itself was threatened. who was the first in? first in was kurd force supplying ammunition supplying, i'm told, individual people to help bolster the lines, to work with the peshmerga to get new people in, to get their command stronger. erbil wa

they founded the kurdistan workers party known as the pkk and it began applying guerrilla tactics. at least 35,000 people were killed in this conflict before a cease-fire was put in place two years ago. but it's been a strained truce. the turkish government still considers the pkk and it's off shoot in syria the ypg terrorist organizations. >> there is a peace process going. they're asking for greater political rights. the restriction on the language to be lifted. if turkey wanted to become a model in the region it needs to practice democracy at home. >> well, generations of underlying distrust resurface this week. the kurdish community said that the government is not doing enough to protect them, but turkey said that isil and the mkk are the only ones to blame for the attack. in response it has embarked in a two-prong bombing operation which is a significant shift in its stance against isil in particular, but some say the strikes could further strain turkey's relationship with the kurds. >> the iraqi army said that at least 77 soldiers in shia militiamen have been killed in anbar

the targets belong to the kurdistan's worker's party, the pkk.s considered a terrorist organization by turkey. >> i have said the massacre was an attack against turkey against democracy in turkey and public order in turkey. is ill was behind it is. there are some who wanted today accurately chaos and they were supported by the pkk. their actions were targeting fundamental rights. >> mohammed jamjoon is following developments prime prime. >> the kurds in the southeastern region specifically. they accused the turkish government much collaborating with is ill. these are accusations turkey denies. they call them nefarious lies. like i said, it's a tricky situation right now. clearly what we are seeing several turkish high level officials coming out very much aligning their messages, creating the narrative they want the public to see turkey is engaged in a in a serious war on ter error. >> that's why they are going to let air basis be used by coalition forces. they have started bombing targets in syria. >> reporting for us live. thank you very much in

turkish jets have been bombing the kurdistan in northern iraq and kurdish fighters in northern syriaed positions near the count of tobani and denied by the turkish government and says w.p.g. could have a part in future if it cuts ties and no plans to send ground troops into syria and we will go to bernard smith in istanbul and tell us more about what the turkish government is saying. >> reporter: well nick the turkish military put out what seems to be a clarification of claims from the syrian kurdish fighters. a village has been shelled by the turkish military just near kobani and the turkish military says he is looking into this but pointed out in the statement they are not targeting p.y.d. syrian kurdish fighters and their aim and targeting i.s.i.l. positions in syria and p.k.k. and kurdistan workers party positions in northern iraq what the turkish military says the ongoing military operation seeks to neutralize threats to turkey's national security so looking into what happened in that incident where the p.y.d. says twice a village near kobani once on friday and once on sunday ni

now turkish jets have again been bombing the kurdistan workers party or p.k.k. targets across the border this northern iraq. syrian kurdish fighters also known as the y.p.g. who are battling i.s.i.l. say they shell their positions near the town of kobani and that is a claim denied by the turkish government and says the y.p.g. could have a place in syria's future if it cuts all ties with the assad regime and turkey has no plans to send ground troops into syria and we have been following events live from istanbul and we will talk about y.p.g. in a moment but tell us a little more about the arrests we have been seeing. >> reporter: well those 15 arrests on raids in ankora were all foreigners according to kurdish security services and they are the latest in the series of 900 people arrested so far in raids going on really for the past weeks and months but they stepped up just sort of in the last week or so after that suicide bomb attack in near the border with syria. turkey showing it seems a new willingness and determination to try and pick out potential i.s.i.l. s

and fighters from kurdistan or p.k.k. and strikes happening in november earn iraq against p.k.k.ps and turkish fighters also struck i.s.i.l. positions in syria overnight. the u.s. president addressed a global summit in the kenya capitol and barack obama praised the continent's young people. and tunisia parliament approved an antiterrorism law and it stifles freedom of expression. it's been three months since the first of two earthquakes devastated nepal and tens of thousands are in need of food and clean water and live in fear of landslides and 1-10 are homeless and the government promised to relocate them but we report that many are still waiting. >> reporter: just outside nepal's capitol kathmandu 200 people have camped out in a school ground and this is a village here and all of them have lost their homes. landslides have destroyed most areas around the village and the river has been eroding what remains of their land and she escaped the worst of it until she got here. >> translator: my sister gave birth here. we didn't have the money or the transport to take her to the hospit

turkish warplanes bombed militants with the kurdistan workers party, the pkk, as it's well known, in northern iraq. ground troops also attacked isis in northern syria. this comes after turkey's first air strikes on isis targets within syria on friday. for more on turkey's ramped-up fight against militants, we turn to cnn producer gul tuysuz who joins us on the phone from istanbul. gul, good to have you with us. what does it mean for turkey to have this shift in policy to step up its fight against isis? >> turkey's posture has changed from a position of a passively trapped support against isis to now aggressively pursuing it as a threat to its national security. and that's the thing that the turkish government has been saying over the last two days as they have ramped up operations both militarily and domestically saying that they perceive isis as a national security threat. and in the interests of that they are going after isis targets in syria. we had the three f-16s not going into syrian air space but taking out isis targets there. and then last night we had ground artillery forces

campaign has expanded to target basis in northern iraq belonging to the kurdistan worker's party or pkkho's syrian alleys are fighting against isil. it's put an end to the fragile cease-fire raising fears of renewed violence intie from southern turkey dana hodr reports. >> reporter: turksey at war on two fronts. jets are hitting target did across the border in iraq and syria. a day after beginning an air campaign against isil in syria, turkish jets for the first time in years began hitting pkk or kurdistan workers party positions in iraq's mountains. the pkk immediately declared the already strained 2013 cease-fire with turkey dead. turkish officials are not fazed and tong talk about a long-term fight. >> whenever we see a decrease in or the vanishing of the threat then, of course we will make a re-assessment. the third wave of operations are a part of this. >> this is a major shift in policy. >> for turkey, isil declared war when it bombed a cultural center on monday. many here briefly turkey's decision to actively engage in the fight against the armed group has a lot to do with the ba

last june, i was a commencement speaker at the american university of kurdistan. was talking to iraqi officials. they took most -- mopsul, remember. they said it was very interesting. the people said isis went around to doors and on the homes of christians, they put an arabic symbol for nazarenans. at the home of the shiites, they put a symbol for projectors. we had never seen this before. we had to look it up in the dictionary. we discovered it is an archaic term for shiites that comes from saudi arabia. ok? isis, my view is the guidance system was straight out of saudi wahhabi-ism. the fuel for isis, though, comes from iran. because the iranians pushed maliki to push and crackdown on the sunni arabs of iraq to the point where they were ready to welcome and isis. a professor from carnegie likes to say of iran's behavior in iraq -- they're both arsonists and firefighters. they put the fire of -- they lit the fire of mal;aki. you guys lit the fire. the saudi's are also arsonists and firefighters there. the idea that we have -- our interests to me, charlie, in the m

we incurred kurdistan, we don't want the camps where radicals can be formed and this is another crisis brewing for the future and i would like to hear this touched on as well. thank you. >> thank you for bringing it up. no doubt about it that millions of refugees and displaced persons, and we have been to the camps on the field visits and half of iraq is displaced and turkey is hosting 1.8 million refugees, and it's a truly humanitarian disaster and hundreds of thousands murdered or killed otherwise, and lack of education and income distribution and housing inyesterday blg and a set of issues important to the counterterrorism side as well. >> i would just say that with this, as other aspects of this nightmarish problem the u.s. needs to lead its partners in the region and internationally in stepping up the effort so it's closer to the level of the problem. i mean we have -- again we have declare tory policies about humanitarian issues but there is no follow-through. people make pledges where they never deliver. i looked at camps in kurdistan, and i remember seeing the sea of tents last

now prime minister gave a call to the president of iraqi kurdistan in which the prime minister said that so long as pkk kept attacking turkey, that turkey would take any measures necessary to protect itself from that threat. this is a huge shift in strategy. for a long time turkey has resisted getting further involved in getting into conflicts here in the region especially when it comes to syria. now turkey finds itself involved in a two-prong attack. at a time when this region particularly is fraught with so much tension between the kurdish community and the turkish government. now the kurdish community continues to say that they have believe that turkey's government is more insistent upon countering the advances of custodyish fighters in this region than they are in countering the advances of isil fighters. of course, turkey's government has adamantly denied that. they call those claims nefarious lies. now pkk officials were definitive. they came out and said that the unilateral actions in turkey in bombing those pkk encampments meant that the peace process was over. the turkey not nea

where there is decent order, jordan, u.a.e., kurdistan try to make it more consensual. and where there is consensual order, tunisia, lebanon, protect it like a rare flower. we just have got to go right down that checklist, it seems to me. but don't buy into anybody's, you know, schtick here. because there is a deep shi'a, arab, persian, sunni, you know, thing going on here that you and i aren't part of this story. but you know i've said before, you know-- . >> rose: and probably can't influence it. >> this is-- exactly. it's so beyond-- it's so deep. i mean, iran, again, it's like your big brother walks out the door 36 years ago, slams the door. charlie takes his stereo, tom takes his bicycle, he vote takes his budget bed, charlotte takes his favorite pen. okay. and we're really enjoying-- and we got a sole relationship with dad over in washington. 36 years later, big brother is back. i want my pen, i want my stereo, i want my bicycle that's what is going on. so the arabs are freaking out because they have had in many ways, there's never been an iranian ambassador in wa

said it's targeting not just isil supporters, potential fighters, also targeting people from the kurdistan workers party, the p.k.k. and extreme leftwing in turkey, saying targets are all groups that it consider as threat to turkey's national security. over the border, the syrian kurds there claim that the turkish military shelled a village near kobane twice once on friday that the y.p.g. assumed was a mistake when they shelled y.p.g. positions and again on sunday. the turkish military said it's investigating these claims but says it is not targeting y.p.g. positions in syria. the turkish military said it's only interested in isil positions in syria with throws airstrikes amounted it's also been targeting kurdistan party positions in iraq, p.k.k. bases there, nevertheless, the military said it is investigating these claims of shelling of y.p.g. positions in syria. >> let's go live to the southern turkey border. zane know hodor joins us. let's start with the relationship between turkey and the y.p.g. you've got turkey bombing one kurdish group on the other saying it may have a future in syr

and then you have the war that is being launched against the pkk, the kurdistan workers party which turkey terrorist organization and simultaneously when those strikes took place in syria, the turkish air force also targeted pkk positions in their strong hold in the mountains in northern iraq and this effectively caused the pkk to declare the cease-fire that has been in place and has pretty much held since 2013. then we have the unit of turkeyish soldiers were ambushed targeted by a bomb. a lot of people concerned at this stage about what this is going to mean and how it's going to play out moving forward with turkey seemingly going after what it was calling terrorist organizations whether it is isis or the pkk, george. >> when it comes to the pkk and to differentiate them from the kurdish peshmerga forces both groups fighting isis how do you square the circle there? it seems, the enemy of my enemy, explain if you could. >> this isn't necessarily a region where you can always square these various different circles. when it comes to the kurdish dynamic, that is especially the case. you have

it has had great success in working with its friends in kurdistan. the curtis platform for military and other operation is powerful. i travel in kurdistan all the way to the left and then down into the solid #are working quietly with elements of us and the coalition power have pushed isys back. and protective how their own the main domain isys camp, collegiate to the southwest how you alive. so questions can have should you send weapons directly which is an issue for masterfile is government. their weapons weapon through that option isn't discussed anymore. the iranians think about how the kurdish forces were rocked in august and september, september, how their lines cracked, how dangerous it was. threatened, and threatened, and who was the first and? sola money and the cook force supplying ammunitions supply untold individual people to help bolster the lines, to work with the best market to get new people and to get their command stronger. the bill was said. the us came in after and our bill was also crucial. the ukrainians. the ukrainians have a we

it has reopened the front that it has with the pkk, the kurdistan workers party that it deems to be a terrorist organization. this meeting with nato is an attempt by turkey to on the one hand lay out its current strategy but on the other 457bd also ensure it has the capital, that it has the support from nato as it does move forward along these two front lines against isis and against the pkk, and additionally to all of this turkey has realized to remain relevant in the region accomplicically relevant it has to take an active and aggressive role against isis wolf. >> arwa we also heard a rare speech from the syrian president, and he admitted setbacks. what did he say? >> reporter: he was basically saying that the syrian military justifying why the syrian military had withdrawn from some strategic key areas, and conceding that yes, his forces were stretched thing, that they were struggling when it came to logistic when it came to manpower remember they have been embroiled in this war for well over four years now. the president also was saying that he would be open to dialogue but as ass

jordan, kurdistan, baghdad, coalition, empower them and build on that. if they are ready to fight against isis, i am ready to aid them in any way i can. i will not put american roots on the ground necessarily. we can only build on cities -- sunnis ready to take down these awful isis. charlie: your -- these guys are thinking about their own future. there organizing they are doing more in terms of taking territory and trying to organize that territory in making allowances for the fact that one or more of them might be hit riot drone. -- hit by a drone. tom: why is it taking territory? this is the single most underestimated force in politics. why did they let isis in and they basically let them in. maliki, the shiite prime minister of iraq was so hammering the sunnis firing their generals, taking money away, that basically they said these guys -- these awful guys are less awful than those guys. charlie: that is beginning to change. tom: they understand if they want to keep that they have to govern it. it always goes back to this question. why is it going ba

turkey and the united states both consider the kurdistan workers party or pkk to be a terrorist organization, but the group and its allies has been given credit over the past year for helping in the fight against the islamic state. nato chief jens stoltenberg said the military alliance stands in strong solidarity with turkey which recently opened up its air bases to the u.s.-led coalition fighting the islamic state. chief stoltenberg: terrorism in all of its forms can never be tolerated or justified. it is right and timely that we hold this meeting today to address the instability on turkey's doorstep and on nato's border. nato is following developments very closely and we stand in strong solidarity with our ally, turkey. amy: turkey's attacks on the kurds come just a month after the pro-kurdish opposition people's democratic party won 13% of the vote helping to deprive president tayyip erdogan's akp party of a majority in the parliament for the first time since 2002. over the past week turkey has detained more than 1,000 people in a series of raids, many targeting members of kurdish groups.

jordan, kurdistan, baghdad coalition, be it what it may -- empower them and build on them. they are ready to fight against isis, i am ready to aid them in any way i can. i will not put american boots on the ground necessarily. we can only build on iraqis, sunnis basically, ready to take down isis. charlie: the fbi director said yesterday that isis is much more of a threat than al qaeda terror was, number one. number two, there was a piece talking about how these guys are thinking about their own future. they are organizing, and they are not like traditional terrorists -- they are doing more in terms of taking territory and trying to organize that territory, and in fact making allowances for the fact that one or more of them might be hit by a drone. it is a different kind of enemy. tom: it is a smart enemy. charlie: and it's taking territory. tom: why is it taking territory? this is the single most underestimated force in arab politics. governance. why do these guys in basel first let isis and? -- isis in? they basically let them in. maliki, the shiite prime minister of iraq

in territory they consider part of what they call western kurdistan. for now the kurds are being treated in the west as the only reliable partner on the ground in syria. there is only so much the ypg can or is willing to do. zeina khodr, al jazeera on the syrian turkish border. >>> believed to be two i.s.i.l. bombers made their way into the neighborhood. >>> may go beyond july 9th deadline of iranian nuclear talks. our diplomatic editor james bays has more from vienna. >> negotiators have already been working around the clock here. we understand there was one meeting with the lead u.s. negotiator the lead eu negotiator and two dispute form ministers from iran that went on until 3:00 a.m. some ministers have left. the european union and chinese foreign ministers but the words of laurent fabeus, the french foreign minister said it is likely they will return. trying to get a deal, remember the interim deal has already been extended, extended only until tuesday. so time here is running out. certainly, european union diplomats say they don't see any prospec

geopolitical terms but it creates problems on the ground i just returned from the region from lebanon and kurdistan and there is a lot of alarm increasing alarm that the lifting of sanctions is going to, of course, in the year's time allow the iranians a huge cash flow. the question is is all of this cash flow going to be forming the economy? or is some of this cash going to the islamic revolutionary guards as they could expand their activityies in lebanon hezbollah, syria iraq. there is a lot of concern within sunni societies that by lifting sanctions this is going to empower iran politically in the region. >> mr. ambassador we talk about the cash flow. prime minister benjamin netanyahu said that it will make the first nuclear arm terror state and they'll be able to do more mischief in the world. >> well, i think that's a legitimate point to a degree. i think they're going to have to file a good point of amount of the cash into their economy. i think there is a further issue here, and that is the economic competition that iran is going to pose saudis. once the sanctions are lifted and they can exp

they have targeted the kurdistan workers party. p.k.k. in northern iraq. they targeted i.s.i.l. fighters in syria. and president obama head a national address to the people of kenya. it came on the last day of a trip to the nation where meal be the first sitting president to agrees the nation. >> air attacks have been lunched at a military recruitment center. it followed bombings at a military camp. less than 11 hours since a ceasefire begins. let me remind you who is in control of what. the houthis are stronger than the north. a large part contest the by al qaeda. let me warn you that some may find the images disturbing. >> saudi-led coalitions are arriving in aden. after four months of fighting the airport is under the control of fighters. it's after taking this city from the houthi rebels that a 5-day pause was announced, saying the truce comes at the request of president abd-rabbu mansour hadi. >> the goal of the new truce is to lift the siege and impose on cities and reach the areas with much-needed humanitarian aid. it's a much-needed move for the houthis. >> reporter: the

members but there are members of the outlawed kurdistan workers party, pkk. >>> tension has been building along the border, i.s.i.l. has been blamed for a suicide bomb which claimed lines lives of 30 people in the town of suruc. >> these are the steps against our national security. our state and government will take needed action against any attack no matter what it is. it is not only for last night. we will take the negatives precautions for our nation's security and peace. last night was just the start of this. and we will keep going on the same way. we've in a differently struggle from now on. we'll do whatever it needs. our nation should trust that state. >> rosalind jordan what does the government say. >> the obama administration is welcoming turkey's decision to allow fighter jets as well as unmanned surveillance equipment better known as drones to fly from incirlik. this will make it easier to carry out the strikes on i.s.i.l. in northern syria and provide surveillance to help determine where they should be dropping the bombs. this situation has really been playing out for the bett

air campaign against isil and syria turkish jets for the first time in years began hitting pkk or kurdistan workers. the pkk immediately declared the already strained 2013 cease-fire with turkey dead. turkish officials are not phased and talk about a long-term fight. >> whenever we see a decrease or a vanishing of the threat, then we'll make a reassessment. the third wave of operations are a part of this. >> this is a major shift in policy. >> for turkey isil declared rather when it bombed a cultural center on monday. but many here believe that turkey's decision to actively engage in the fight against the armed group has a lot to do with the battlefield in northern syria. the government here is concerned about isil threatening syrian opposition groups in their stronghold. it is also worried about what it sees in the growing strength of syrian kurds. >> now syrian kurds control half of the border with turkey. turkey said it would an red line if kurds create a state in northernin the region. >> turkey does not want the ypg to take mortar tore. now the u.s. and turkey are working together to c

they have also hit areas in northern iraq targeting camps belonging to the kurdistan workers party or. barack obama laid a wreath in memory of those killed in the 1998 embassy bombing. 200 kenyans and 12 americans died in that attack. obama's on his first visit to kenya, his father's birthplace since becoming president and is expected to give a press briefing within the next 30 minutes or so, we will take that live. 77 iraqi soldiers and shia militia men have died in nair their fight forearm bannerbar province to retake the main cities from isil. turkey expanding airstrikes on isil in syria and kurdish forces mr. northern iraq. gerald tan looks at why the growing influence of the kurds is making turkey's government nervous. >> from the islamic state and -- since, turkey has increased with its border. syria's kurdish fighting force, the ypg has been gaining territory from is.ilsil. >> worries the turkish government. >> the u.s.-led coalition ist. the ypg is a threat to all people. the arabs, turkmen. kurds are trying to create a state. >> kurds an ethnic group with a distinct cup tour

in tear you tri they consider western kurdistan. for now the kurds are being treated as the only reliable and viable group on the ground. only so much the ypg can or is willing to do. zeina khodr, al jazeera turkish border. >> lack of consensus between president ghanii and ghani vice president abdalla abdalla. jennifer glasse is reporting from there,. >> he is the candidate for the defense minister that would be complete the cabinet. been without the cabinet minister for eight months. he said the taliban were fighting because foreign forces are here yet the foreign forces have withdrawn and fighting goes on. they need more technical skills e-skills so they don't continue to need international help including for things like repairing weapons and his testimony comes in court sorry in parliament today as there's heavy fieding in wardek province, that is just about 70 kilometers outside the afghan capital. all eyes will be on anisa risouli, first woman ever to be on the supreme court. head of the afghan women's justice association. it w

positions in syria and northern iraq of the camps belonging to the kurdistan people's party or pkk. >>> stifles freedom of expression. thousands of people are still in desperate need of food clean water and shelter three months after two earthquakes hit nepal. landslides are hampering aid deliveries. barack obama will address a summit on global entrepreneurship in the necessarily half hour in the first day of his trip to east africa. the first time he's been to kenya since 2008. let's go live to nairobi andrew simmons is there for us. i believe he had a good dinner yesterday setting up for a busy day today andrew. >> he certainly did jane. welcome to nairobi. a bit of a gray day but certainly bright for every kenyan alive. sparse they're concerned they've effectively adopted this u.s. president as their son. because his father was born here and died here in western kenya. there is an extraordinary atmosphere. things are running quite late actually. the global entrepreneurship summit has started did start without the president being there. he arrived there and he's expected soon to be

that it's targeting not just isil supporters, potential isil fighters, but targeting people in the kurdistan workers. it's targets are all groups that they consider as a threat to turkey's national security. meanwhile over the border the ypg are claiming that the turkish military have shelled the village near kobane twice in the last few days. once on friday, and then again on sunday. the tush turkish military said that it's investigating these claims but it is not targeting other positions in sir. it's only targeting isil positions in syria and pkk bases in northern rack. but the turkish military are investigating the shellings in syria. >> a jet came down east of deta. the same syrian rebel group has posted heavy fighting in jobar. the closest rebel-held area to damascus. >>> shelling in yemen close to the saudi border. less than 4 hours since the coalition began a cease-fire to allow aid to be sent in. saudi arabia said that it's force also react to any large-scale military action by the houthies but said that this i want does not violate the five-day cease-fire. >>> the usa state departm