the taajik, the wiegers. the ethnic population, fighting in northern syria. >> now as it relates to syria this is a complicated relationship. as i was speaking to mohammed jamjoom about, some years ago, the turkish government supported the assad government. they were actually very close. but now they're fighting i.s.i.l. and the kurds in there. turkey has got a bit of an identity problem at the moment. >> they do. and what happens is when they have good relationship with assad the main policy of turkey at the time designed by the current prime minister, his policy was zero problems with our neighbors. it's amazing how the arab spring took turkey from having zero problems with neighbors to no friends at all. >> right. >> among their neighbors. it's interesting if you look at the map today, vaughn probably the only friend turkey had, if you can call iran a friend. they have significant political relationships going on. today you have russia operating in syria you have assad gaining ground and momentum after the