why turkey? i would like to mention the work that goes back to the 1960's in terms of our studies and work on turkey, with turkish , interested in turkey. also, academic journals that we .ublish on turkey i would like to mention a publication developed in ankara, nato-based staff of turkey at that time, partnership for peace, and obviously, there were many other publications -- this is the publication that we developed at the time in order to develop a coalition around the world to deal with security concerns. finally, also, we try to focus on particularly the challenges al qaeda, translated in many languages, including turkish, and also special publications, which, by the way, we publish in cooperation with the international law institute on turkey and turkish interests to join the european union. with that, i would like to mention that today seminar is another one in the many seminars that we conducted in turkey and around the world, many of the issues, with the exception, of course, on the cou

in turkey it's because turkey was part of the western alliance. yet, right now there's preposterous allegations against the united states but you have to understand the context. one of the commanders that has been stopped and arrested with the u.s. authorities the turkish public are asking the question how on earth the superpower like the united states would not know about what's going on. it's what they've missed out on. they are actually in right now. today i listened to the parliamentary group who have come clearly with the intent of trying to build little bridges and recognize that they need that they cannot afford to burn bridges with the western alliance towards which there is this anger in the european union. they will be meeting with vladimir putin. is it really an alternative for turkey. that they had suggested. turkey needs an economy and i think those who are running turkey right now recognize it even more in this particular context. so to wrap up it's a difficult situation time will make it much clear but given error to the turkish pub

why turkey? and i like to mention obviously the work that goes back to the 60's in terms of our studies and work on turkey, in turkey with turkish universities, universities in the u.s., around the world interested in turkey. also academic journal that is we publish on turkey and particularly i like to mention a publication which would develop and uncover base in turkey, at the time partnership and obviously there were many other publications that we dealt with. this is the publication that we developed at the time in order to develop a coalition around the world to deal with security concerns, and finally, also we try today focus -- we tried to focus on the challenges such as the bin laden, al-qaeda translated in many languages including turkish and special publications which, by the way, we published in cooperation with the international law institute on turkey and turkish interests to join the european union. so with that i would like to mention that today's seminar is another one in the many

this is more of a message to europe of how important turkey is and how important turkey's cooperation is going forward. >> reupert, how much would you say is german government is worried about this deal collapsing? >> well, german officials here say, yes, this deal is one of the key stones of our refugee policies, but yes, this deal is also of quite some importance for turkey. they are not getting tired to point out that turkey would get more or less than three billion euros from the e.u. if this deal is fulfilled. right now this money is not being handed over directly to the turkish government. but to humanitarian aid organizations and as far as we have understood, the turkish government wants -- german officials also point out that this isn't the first time that turkey tried play this card in the game. they are saying, just because they are threatening to blow the whole deal doesn't really mean that they really want to pull the trigger. but also very aware that this could go into some quite serious situations and what we could see today, they are trying to calm the situation down. t

-turkey relations. >> thank you, kiliik and the panelists for such a wide array of remarks. that makes it much more difficult now to talk at the end of this. but i'll try to restrict my remarks to the u.s.-turkey relations and how this coup attempt was perceived in that regard. very quick overview of what happened during obama administration past eight years in u.s.-turkey relations. we started with the obama administration's attempt to sort of restore -- restart, jump start relations with muslim world in the wake of the afghan -- afghanistan and iraq wars, and his first trip was to turkey, quickly afterwards to egypt, and that was a very good fresh start from the turkish perspective. and -- but we -- we were never able to sort of get out of the mode where you have crises or tensions coming close to crises every six months or something like that. but we had in the summer of 2010 an incident and the grand sanctions. this town started discussing whether turkey was moving away from the west. its access was

we definitely still being of turkey as a country that we need that isn't necessarily lining up with our interest or objectives that we need them more than they need us and at the same time having this democratic crisis at home what should the u.s. priorities me without long list of issues? may be given your background with what you are thinking about? >> first talk about policy options because the lifetime executive branch policy so regarding syria i think we basically have to find a way to manage this relationship because turkey does remain important as of member of nato nor would we want to. turkey is strategically located and it is in our interest to the extent possible however they have become a very problematic ally and i think we have notorious but to manage that as we have and a rock bottom need they also have a rock bottom need and whenever the consolation will be there would want to be associated with the data rather than for russia or another eurasian group will over half of turkey's trade is still with the west i think it will be leaning strongly to the west but increasingly

makovsky: one of the key factors linking to what turkey has done in syria of course is turkey was afraid to go into syria. they were afraid russia would respond militarily. mr. misztal: let's just talk in more detail about exactly what turkey is doing in right now and why we think that is -- nick, do you want to talk about the geographical basics of what is going on? mr. danforth: we also have a handy reference map to look at while we discussed this because it gets remarkably detailed remarkably quickly. there has been ongoing tension between the united states and turkey over what the main objectives are in syria, both the united states and turkey wanted assad to be gone. i think the united states maybe a lot more quickly, turkey again gradually over the past year really came to terms with the fact that assad was going to stay into power. one thing they do agree on was generally appointing anti-assad --bles in and around rebels in and around aleppo. some disagreement about who those would be. turkey really favored al nusra, who washington was deeply uncomfortable with. that was one of th

the we areiven dynamically have with turkey -- blaise: given this weird dynamic turkey, and democracyad been eroding for at least the past three years and has eroded significantly in the aftermath of the coup, talking about tens of thousands of orple who have been detained fired who presumably could have had no direct involvement in the coup, how do you balance this on the one hand support the turkish government because they are democratically elected and on the other hand, try to push them to rein in their authoritarian? alan: it is a difficult balance. there is no doubt. we do not know how many of these people are guilty and we really do not know anything at his point. we know what the accusations are. i think we caught people by surprise here is the fact that so many tens of thousands of civil servants, including judges and press hitters and police, were so rapidly rounded up and fired and rounded up the next had it been evenned to the military, extraordinary measures taken, i think that would have been understood here. but i think there is reason to be suspicious that so many peop

europe needs turkey more than turkey needs europe. >> our correspondents here in berlin, on the story for us in it stan bull. to both of you, thank you very much. the taliban has claimed responsibility for a truck bomb ahere that'sing fourth downers. three attacker and one policeman were killed in the crash. just a week ago 80 people were killed in another attack, deadliest since 2001. again, security in the country is being questioned. >> the blast could be felt across the afghan capital. attackers stormed the heavily fortified compound after a powerful truck bomb was detonated outside. local security forces woke up to terrifying central plains. the blafl was so powerful it threw me a meter from my bed. i was so scared. then we find out the taliban fighters had entered the area the explosion tore a hole in the wall of the north gate hotel. security forces were quick to arrive where they engaged in aa seven houour gun battle with residents. the hotel' residents behind the night mostly hiding. >> two attackers were killed by afghan security forces. no one was killed or harmed inside th

turkey, you know. turkish citizens either with dual citizenship, with eu countries or who have given up their turkish citizenship and picked up eu citizenship, but who feel a strong affinity to their turkish or kurdish or sunni or shia or brethren back at home. which means the conflicts at home are simultaneously conflicts abroad. so kurdish turkish class in turkey could mean a kurdish turkish class in cologne, in berlin, a sectarian clash in turkey could mean a sectarian clash in paris, in london, in cologne. that's another two-way dynamic, which is -- which means that what i'm talking about, the challenge of the next generation of terrorism is not only an issue about turkey, but it is also an issue wherever turkey -- turkish and kurdish diaspora are present. and one final comment here, concerning the demographic and generational challenges is that this is not only a challenge about material conditions, about livelihood, about employment, about being incorporated and integrated, but it is also about i

border between turkey and syria.come back to bite them. >> indeed it has. i recall judith miller on your previous segment mentioning the number of times the united states diplomats have reinforced that particular message with regard to having to deal with the border. on incirlik and the russian, the access to the air base in incirlik, i discount that somewhat with regard to the greater interests of turkey, especially the greater interests with nato itself. you mentioned vice president biden heading out to meet with turkey and president erdogan coming up in ankara next week. it's important to note that before he gets to ankara, vice president biden is also going to the baltic states. he'll be meting with the presidents of latvia, estonia, latvia and he is also going to go to sweden. russia is front and center with regard to the geopolitics here. i think mr. erdogan is trying to leverage a new policy with russia against the united states as these other issues between u.s. and turkey get unpacked. >> yeah, because as yo

and turkey relations. mr. pivoting the question of foreign policy, you have the coup and the demand from turkey, obviously not the met immediately because of due process, and you have concerns by turkey that the u.s. has not been as wholesome in its support fullsome in its support for democracy, and then aired one goes to russia. what came of the meeting and why was it so concerning from the u.s. perspective, alan? or was it concerning? met withsky: erdogan putin on august 9, which marked a milestone between turkey and russia following a crisis that began when turkish shot down a russian su24. which turkey said was briefly in its airspace on november 24. putin slapped a lot of sanctions on turkey. these are important trading partners. russia has more leverage and supplies over half, almost two thirds, of turkey's natural gas. both countries are very important to one another. and putin made -- or the russian defense ministry made charges that the family was benefiting from oil trade with isis. the letter has ne

--movies goes to job, turkey some funds may be forced to pull out the money from turkey just that timeturkey really needs more money to come in rather than go out. they had some success at the beginning of the year pulling more money in. this is a threat to that on top of the uncertainty that came with the coup and what went before. yousef: have we heard anything from turkish authorities of what they think of how movies is viewing the situation? >> they are not happy with the rating agencies. s&p was already below investment grade. the turk is government reacted furiously to that decision, calling it unfair and even unethical. movies saying we will wait and see my be more in keeping with what the turkish government is asking the prime minister told us he thinks they should just wait and see until they have a chance to assess the measures that the turkish government is taking. so what comes next for turkey as they await that decision by moody's? >> the government wants to institute a lot of measures and take a lot of steps towards growth. the first step is to end uncertainty of the purg

the presidents turkey on another. why now is a suggestion that the end of this month which is the supreme gathering of the promotion list to basically fill in the biggest spots was rumored that over a thousand senior officers were going to be like a as part of the d gratification of turkey. so the ongoing struggle it seems that matters came to a head. and the greatest sympathizers. and possibly other elements within the state and military. was there a direct correlation. did all this come through from the complex in america down to turkey we don't know that. but that might be something that we have to concentrate on and see how that unfolds in the future. located in texas is can have on the whole radio factors the first is a washington in america was interested in. right now there is an immense amount of pressure is brought upon the obama administration. the other one is government. it's going there saying you have to hand over it to turkey. we want them now. the delegation seen here we are we want him and we want to

issue for turkey.f u.s. is showing in the cooperation in dealing with this lessenthis may help to thesension created by happenings. actually, -- he is finding a safe refuge in this country. this reality, whether it is a i am not goingss to -- but this will be detrimental to turkish people's understanding of the u.s. something should be done for the relationsu.s.-turkey and i do not think that will help us eliminate this aspect. thank you very much. [applause] >> now a speaker will talk about this and offer comparisons with other countries in the region with experiences with coups. >> thank you. thank you for having me. 15, first of all let me just say twitter can be dangerous because on july 15 i was off twitter for a couple hours and i got back on and everyone on my twitter feed was talking about a coup attempt and i am light, this happens a lot. you get off twitter and something really bad happens. and i was settling in seeing what was going on in real time, i felt the sick feeling. it reminded me ho

turkey is an interesting country.he largest kurdish population in the city is not in the southeast, but in istanbul. about 10 years ago or so, the kurdish workers party began to move from the position of secession is him to the position of more rights inside turkey. there has been a series of attempt to unite with the turkish left. various small leftist parties to create a number i'll a party both fight for rights of all kinds of people, gays and , inside, women, workers turkey. the most recent party of this kind was the hdp. it had in both elections in 2015, there were two parliamentary elections, did well enough to block mr. erodgan 's attempt to create a presidential form of government. in a sense, this domestic pressure from the hdp has also upturned the applecart as far as mr. erodgan's domestic concerns are concerned. amy: biden was just there. biden wrote a piece a turkish paper and foreign-policy has said that turkey has admitted that they have not given evidence that this man was behind the tinted coup. expla

if i were to choose between brazil and turkey, i would prefer turkey.s still a good call for us to get perspective. the other call i want you to make is a call on oil. how are you placed for oil? qatar national bank raised their forecast. bullish.ore i have been bullish and the real supplys when demand and will get closer, what is the marginal cost of extracting the marginal barrel of oil? massive cancellation of programs, exploration and developing. to balance the oil market will take time. it will not be a smooth process. it will be a process with ups and downs. the trend is on the rise. there are a number of local libya,, security issues, syria, nigeria, you name it. think theg run, i price of $80 a barrel is what is needed to supply the market. yousef: let's break this down further shortly. we have plenty more to get through. stay tuned. this is bloomberg. ♪ yousef: welcome back. you are watching bloomberg markets middle east. let's move closer to home, if you will. saudi arabia, last week and as we go into this week, we have been getting more and m

issue for turkey. if the u.s. is showing an active cooperation in dealing with this threat, this may help to -- to lessen the tension created by all these happenings. actually, gulen is living in pennsylvania, and he's finding safe refuge in this country. this reality, whether it is a legal process or a political process, you know, i'm not an expert on law, but this will be detrimental to turkish people's understanding of the u.s. something should be done for the future of u.s.-turkey relations, and i will think that kadir will help us in eliminating this aspect. thank you very much. >> and our third speaker shadi hamid will talk about the regional implications of this and possibly some comparisons with some other countries in the middle east in the region that experienced a coup or coup attempts. >> hello, everyone. thank you to seta d.c. for having me. on july 15th -- first of all, let me just say that twitter can be dangerous because on july 15th i was off twitter for a couple hours, and i got back

vice president, joe biden is in turkey on wednesday, so turkey will be facing pressure. the turkish military is in disarray after the failed military coup. nearly half of its top officers have been removed from office. special forces have been implicated in the failed attempt and much of its air force has been affected. anchor: it is a very confused situation at the turkey and syria border. you have the turkish military and syrian rebels. who has the upper hand in northern syria? guest: in northern syria, and appears to be the syrian kurds back by the united states and special forces. it is believed from britain as well, working with syrian kurds and it has been very effective cooperation. they've taken control of hundreds of kilometers of territory that runs along turkey's border and this is causing great alarm because it sees a more powerful force developing on it border which will create a kurdish state that could inside similar demands. anchor: thank you so much. the nigerian military claims it has killed the leader of the jihadist group, boko haram, which has been t

and to slap a lot of sanctions on turkey. some very important trading partners with almost two-thirds of natural gas but there was accusations that erdogan was benefiting from the trade. but coupled with the letter that erdogan wrote that was never made public but the russians wanted to be contained with of apology and then there was deep regret to but i think the concern that had to a time when of deepening tension with the united states, turkey baby moving at of the western orbit and willis are coordinating with russia in syria? and flip and the of policy that has been so against that by coming to some sort of agreement and then moving toward the russian position might answers to both questions is no. but that is something that policy makers have to think about seriously without falling out when turkey said it would not go to shanghai coordination with fact economic group. so erdogan shows just enough seriousness through enemy russia that we should say with that predecessor empires. and for whom add a popular level there's

opinion in turkey?it's because turkey was part of the western alliance. yes, right now there's huge -- what's the word? i can't pronounce it. obligations against the united states and to extent to the european union. but you have to understand the context. one of the commanders being stopped and arrested and shot with u.s. authorities at base. turkish public are asking the question, how on earth a super power like the united states would not know about what's going on? .. recognizing that they need dialogue and recognizing that, i think, ibb wrong, recognizing that they cannot afford to burn bridges with this western alliance towards which it is this anger in the european union. yes, erdogan will be meeting with putin. but is really russia and alternative to turkey? is iran an alternative the way a four star general in 2002 have suggested? turkey needs an economy and i think those who are running turkey right now recognize it even more in this particular context your so to wrap up, it's a difficult situ

here are the details. >> turkey has wanted him for years. now the u.s.te department says it has received a formal extraditeom ankara to this muslim cleric. >> we can confirm turkey has requested the extradition. you have seen turkish politicians talk about him or make allegations that he was connected. is that this request does not relate to his involvement or allegedly involvement in the coup. >> turkey is still reeling from last month's coup attempt. at least 240 people were killed. the turkish president says the plot was orchestrated by the cleric, who has lived in exile in pennsylvania since 1999. he denies any involvement. around 80,000 people accused of having links to him have been sacked or suspended from the police,, civil service, and judiciary. turkey has made his extradition one of the key issues in a relationship with the u.s., warning that a slow response could lead ankara to question its friendship with washington. joe biden is expected to show support for turkey, though privately he is likely to express concern at erdogan's crackdown on d

and turkey are at rock bottom. have felt a lack of solidarity during the failed coup attempt and this latest event with turey entering syria underlies how important it is to have a good relationship and that's the message i think biden is trying to give, saying we are a strong ally and we need to work together. terry: thank you so much. germany has received more than a million migrants over the past year. chancellor angela merkel invited them here telling the german people we can do this. the migrants are process to determine who will be allowed to stay as refugees and who will be sent back as economic migrants. one year on, dw spoke to a man about to be deported. we asked him what he would say to the chancellor if he got the chance. terry: you are watching dw news. still to come, the unofficial and uncontrolled vigilante groups patrolling the borders of some european countries. their mission, to repel invaders. that means migrants. a disturbing trend or just citizens doing their duty? that and more coming up in ju

reach back out to turkey, even though within turkey, there has been, in my opinion, sort of an overplayingthe anti-american card to deflect from what really has been a very traumatic passed month in turkey. a failed coup attempt, over 200 people killed, parliament was bombed. the military was really fractured. so this is a big problem, and the turkish leaders have leaned on anti-american sentiment to explain it away. >> woodruff: but bottom line, isis is a big enemy, but isis is not the only complicating factor in that part of the world. there's a lot going on between the turks and the kurds. >> absolutely. for turkey, the kurdish substate actor problem is always number one. isis i would say is 1a, and now you have to have the man turkey claims is a substrate actor who they say carried out a coup attempt on july 15th and now lives in the united states. all three things came together. it's a very difficult time for u.s.-turkey relations because of it. >> woodruff: well, there are a lot of threads to follow here. we thank you for helping us understand what's going on. aaron stein, we appreci

those are the same groups that turkey also fears would attack for turkey, there is no good guy in thisht. all parties are threatening to turkey. they do not want the kurds in syria to help the kurds inside of its own country because there is a terrorist wing with an turkey -- within turkey's kurdish movement. turkey does not distinguish. they're worried about any collaboration. they want to create that buffer zone. they were worried about the kurds, not just isis. host: explain how the u.s. is aiding in this latest turkish offensive. we have a dilemma because we are not against the kurds. we are trying to find a compromise in which the kurds occupy certain parts of the buffer zone but don't create a long, contiguous single area that could become the beginnings of an independent state. we don't want to encourage the kurds to feel any desire for independence from syria or turkey. turks to divide those kurdish zones, go after isis with turkish and moderate arab forces as much as possible, keeping the kurds to either side of this vector of turkish attack. that allows turkey to keep the kur

the problem for turkey, a nato and u.s.up they call terrorists on their border. it came to a head when turkey sent in a force to back off syrian rebels who are not kurdish, but arabs, to kick out isis. it came to a clash with the syrian kurds. we are in a serious fluid moment. the u.s. telling turks, stop pushing south and pull back across the natural boundary of the euphrates river. what is happening now? we have just heard in the last 24 hours that 21 targets have been hit in the area. that doesn't sound like the turkey military is convinced kurds are moving back across the east across the euphrates. a lot, it seems, of confusion. some duplicity and america in an unfortunate position. you could have predicted this that turkey would eventually take stronger military issue. we now have president erdogan saying they will pursue the syrian kurds with the same verocity as isis. now in its more closing stages, john. >> can they keep the pressure on isis and maintain the alliances? nick, thank you so much. >>> more than 6,000 mi

and that's going to be hard because our turkey believes that we need turkey more than turkey needs usit's a two-sided dependency but nonetheless this is a very dicey. and it's going to be very tough so i believe the administration has handle it well but every day of the new will, that could push this thing over the edge and again, not all of it will be mistakes on washington. there is a long tradition in turkey that predates this government and this leader of blaming the united states for anything that goes wrong anywhere in turkey or in the area around turkey, those of us that work with the turks get used to that. we never liked it but it came with the territory. but you can push this too far. the problem with that is the environment, the problem is a habit and you saw very stock warning by terry kerry when we refuse by the minister of labor by being behind the coup that when you are used to bashing the united states in vague ways for everything and anything that has happened to your country, you can push that too far one day and then something really bad happens and there's a real h

turkey says shells hit the border towns. the turkish military has responded with its own shelling against kurdish positions on the border. rebels are preparing a maj offensive. the turkey foreign minister says they will provide whatever support is necessary to push i.s. out of the city. >> our fight against terrorist groups will continue both inside and outside the country. in syria and in iraq, against the kurds and islamic state, we will fight until the end. reporter: they recently won a major victory here over the syrian government. now, they are dancing on the city. but the two operations could collide head-on. >> what is turkey hoping to achieve with its actions in syria? guest: i thihink the priority is to keep this town from falling into the hands of the syrian and kurdish forces. they want to keep this as papart of their western advance and linking up the territory into one unified piece of territory which turkey thinks will become a syrian and kurdish state. it's expected to be a tough fight. it is believed to be fi

they want the united states to return to turkey and the turkey government who accuses being the mastermind behind the july 15th coup. they made it clear that isis is a second priority. they want the man handed over by the united states as quickly as possible. boris. >> ben, obviously, isis, a second priority in turkey, still a major player. turkey is the center of a lot of bloodshed recently. many say this is a shift in strategy by isis. is that how you read it? >> reporter: certainly keep in mind, look at the big picture, boris, you have isis on the run in iraq. they're holed up in mosul, the second largest city. in syria, they steadily losing ground. turkey apparently is getting syrian rebel force ready to go into the city on the border controlled by isis. clearly isis is being pushed into a corner and they are fighting back in the way that we have come to expect. using the most horrific kind of attacks to inflict maximum casualties on innocent civilians. if this case, women and children as their way of fighting back as they lose territory. boris. >> just senseless and horrend s horrendo

we have about 3000 in turkey at this time, also nuclear weapons inside turkey.lnerable do you think they are? >> we got to be increasingly concerned because terrorism attacks both by islamic jihadists as well as by kurdish militants inside turkey have been dramatically on the uptake so we've got to be concerned about the security of our forces in those bases. turkish military and turkish security forces are responsible for those and as i said, anti-americanism in turkey is dramatically on the increase . jenna: you're worried they're not going to be there. you're worried some of those servicemen and women may be without helpinside that country . >> there's a lot of turmoil. turkey having attempted to, the military has been through lots of purges, is going to be weekend. whether or not they can live up to that, we want to see these bases stay in our access. turkey is the second largest military inside of nato, it's been a nato ally for more than 60 years. we want to keep that but on the off chance turkeydecided doesn't want the united states there anymore which is

between the european union and turkey. we have signed the bilateral protocols but there's some -- they've ratified the agreement but the council of ministers has not yet adopted any, any mechanism for implementation. that is the last bit. and we're trying to talk to our turkish colleagues and friends in order to, in order for this to happen as soon as possible so that we can have -- i apologize -- so that we can have a structured management process around the migration and the refugee crisis. at the same time of course we work very well on our border issues when it comes to the communication between the border guard authorities. that is also an essential point that needs to be made. so in a nutshell, yes, we are worried. we are looking very closely at what's happening. we have a lot of questions. but at the same time, turkey is an important partner in nato and a neighbor with whom we are working on a lot of important and crisis issues which are identified as part of the main, main challenges of our history right now. >> we

if you look at's turkey -- look at turkey's military, they are the second-biggest after the u.s. that to maybe they will do a deal or so with russia, over all it was take years or even decades for a significant pivot. and we have seen similar examples in the middle east, ties for eight years that have not been the best, but military deals have improved, and with saudi arabia and the u.s. saudi arabia did some deals with france and russia, but still the u.s. is the biggest partner. these things take a long time to change. yousef: we will see. thank you a lot. ok, we will check in on the first word headlines. here is tracy. tracy: officials in yemen say that an airstrike on a school killed at least 10 children and waited dozens -more- wou -- and wounded dozens more. peace talks collapsed earlier this month. doctors without borders condemns the attack, saying that the victims of rape between 8 -- saying that the victims were between 8-15 years old. and it took two months of heavy fighting, killing more than 1000 people and displacing thousands in syria. they had held the city for 2.

starting with a live look at the turkey river in elkader. the river is expected to crest there at about 1 p-m -- a little short of the 2008 record crest. "and i was like anything to help out my community, i'll help. " dozens of volunteers helped build a wall of sandbags in elkader in preparation for today's crest. governor branstad has issued a disaster counties in northeast iowa. today, he plans to visit cities with flooding. a 15-year-old cedar rapids girl has serious injuries after a car hit her in front of kennedy high school. police did not ask for charges against the driver for the crash. republican presidential nominee donald trump plans to attend an event for joni ernst event tomorrow in des moines. democratic nominee hillary clinton is criticizing trump for trying to incite racism. you're watching kcrg-tv9. now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrg-tv9 news has your first alert forecast, kaj... and that will limit our high temperatures into the mid- 70s as well. this morning, a few isolated showers may also be found in far so

not even in turkey. >> for many years, it has been a crime in turkey to insult the president. but it was rarely enforced before president erdogan took office in 2014. since then, almost 2000 criminal cases have been lodged against members of the public, from journalists and politicians to school children. now in the wake of the failed coup, critics fear a full scale assault on the freedom of expression. his opponents say that what would be considered normal criticism of a leader in another country, could lead to immediate arrest and criminal proceedings in turkey. >> erdogan and gollum. the comparison between the turkish leader and the character from the "lord of the rings" is popular among young opposition members. but the president isn't laughing and is quick to take offense. the media is under pressure, says 17-year-old mehmet. >> people get into trouble for voicing even the slightest critique. magazines are punished for their covers. tv stations are closed down. turkey has moved to one-man rule. >> mehmet knows what he's talking about. he has first-hand experience of the c

how does this anend for turkey? >> one of the important statements in the past couple days is the turkish prime minister saying we need to get more involved and try to end this war in syria. that is certainly right. for a long time the policy was in many ways confused. i hope this is a clarifying event for them -- katty: you do have the unusual situation of the turkish government here seeming at least to defend kurdish communities? is that how it looks to you, possibly? they are having to on their border. >> and one of the things that is most important on vice president biden's agenda is to get some clarity from the turks that this is about the fight against isis, this is a deal to get rid of assad. the united states and turkey have to agree about who to support and who is the enemy. katty: how much leverage does the white house have in trying to redirect turkish efforts against isis, shutting that stretch of border, for example, stopping the flow of people and money across the border? >> to be fair to the turkish g

and does that mean for the people in turkey? i don't think it's a question of the stability of turkey, but the direction they will go in. >> we just showed a photograph of he with putin, and he was praising putin, and they are tipping to russia. vice president biden will be there on wednesday. what can he say? what will he say? >> well, i think we're very close to the point where turkey is going to spin out of the western orbit entirely. erdowan is getting used to the secular constitution, and using the failed military coup to wipe out his political opposition. there was news from turkey that released they released 30,000 criminal prisoners, to make room for the political prisoners that he is arresting. and i think the reports of possibly allowing russian planes to use the base combined with russian planes using air bases in iran to attack opponents of the assad regime, all of this put in context reflects a dramatic demolition over american influence, and the region as a whole. it's very dangerous, and biden ought to be having a

and turkey itself. can see the spike when the coup happened. where do you stand now, and how much of a difference is the moody's decision going to make? to what extent is that priced in? the turkish political turmoil is already priced on the current prices. the last two weeks actually, and the coup,e the crisis has been going down. that was driven by the global risk on momentum not specifically to turkey, and investors are still feeling comfortable about the fundamental story, but they are still going to want the decision of moody's, which might have a further impact, but nothing really dramatic. i don't expect the price to spike above 350, per se, if moody's decides to downgrade turkey to junk status. obviously, that goes along to say the global prices of similar peers of turkey are at much lower levels than -- levels. most of this risk is already priced in. if we do get moody's coming out with negative movement when it comes to its rating on turkey, if it goes below investment grade, we might see a lo

turkey and the military base, battling isis is a key come upon to battling isis and whether turkey is stable enough to be part of that overall alliance, that is a big, big concern. >> indeed. conor powell thank you. eric? >> president obama's summer vacation is over returning to the white house amid continuing controversy for not cutting his time off on martha's vineyard to visit the victims of the devastating flooding in louisiana. our reporter is traveling with the we president and trends on martha's vineyard. kevin? >> yes, good evening. there are a number of opinions about this story and whether the president should have made the way to louisiana sooner but there are some facts here. one, the floods was clearly historic and obviously deadly with more than a dozen perishing. there is no other way to describe that the open ices being terrible, yes, the president sent the fema director and the secretary of homeland security to the area, but that doesn't mean the people of louisiana don't have a right to fall like they have been overlooked in this deadly flooding. the pictures tell th

we rely on cooperation with turkey.is in our interest and it is our responsibility to work together and that means we have to manage this in a reasonable way whether we like it or not. simon: opposition groups are saying that this underlines the need for berlin to change course in relation to turkey. sarah: simon young, thank you. in other news, the united states says it has sent 15 inmates from the guantanamo bay prison camp to the united arab immigrants, -- emirates. hundreds were detained at the u.s. base on cuba after it was set up following the september 11 attacks. the transfer leaves just 61 inmates there. reporter: to some, it is a symbol of american injustice and torture. minotaur's detention facility is located on a u.s. naval base in guantanamo bay, cuba. it was established in 2002 by former u.s. president george w. bush. following the september 11 attacks under his administration, suspected members of the taliban and al qaeda from or -- from over 40 countries were detained here. at one point, more than 700 p

and our turkey and the u.s. about to walk lawrence over -- block lawrence over eight kurdish melissa -- militia? i'm brent goff, it is good to have you with us. we begin in brazil. suspended prison -- resident dilma rousseff testified today on her own behalf of her trial. she is charged with manipulating the government budget to o hidea growing deficit. the accusations are an attempt to undermine democracy. she tells the e easement -- impeachments attempt is a coup. >> i did not commit any crime, the charges against me are unfair and unreasonable. putting an end to my mandate is to m me politicical death. i'm making a final appeal to all senanators. do not accept this, it will only aggravate the crisis. i beg you to bring justice to an honest president. i ask you to vote against the impeachment afford to democracy. thank you. >> i'm joined on the line now. good evening to you kerley in a. what was her main message today? >> it was clearly that she was not guilty for any charges. she says it was a clear coup atta

>> will, what turkey got -- well, what turkey got was leverage wa with the united states.number of things, among which is this guy in the united states who the turks accuse of having started the coup. remember that just before this, russia and turkey almost went to war over the turkish shootdown of the russian plane. suddenly there was a love affair, and suddenly the united states had to start reorienting itself, because it needed turkey. and turkey needs the united states. russia is an historic enemy of turkey, it's really close, really competitive. but i think the turks managed to rearrange the entire relationship. wisedo you think that it's for the u.s. to so closely ally itself with the erdogan government? do we really share value systems, or does it not matter? >> i don't know about value systems, but we certainly share an interest in making sure that russian access to the mediterranean is controlled. that means controlling the -- and working with turkey. it depends what you want. if you only want to ally with people who are like you -- matt: what about isis? we have

all this happening in southern turkey. that celebration, taking place in a street that is commonly not uncommon to see that during the summer months there. nearly 100 people wounded. the president said isis is likely behind the attack. no one officially claimed responsibility. let's get the latest from journalist andrew fink el. >> we understand the president is pointing to isis, though, no official confirmation. can you give us context as to why the president believes isis is behind this? >> reporter: well, it is unusual for the authorities to come out and point the finger of blame. there are various reasons why isis may be be hind the attack. one thr one, this is in the south of turkey, near the syrian border. it's a city that is swollen with refugees. it is a city vulnerable and listening to ea vents from the other side of the border thchlt seems to have targeted a kurdish family. it appears to have been an attempt to inflame ethnic conflict. they attacked a kurdish neighborhood on the syrian border. isis is fighting a

we're into a new chapter here for turkey, certainly some say maybe it's too late or late that turkeyd the fight at this stage. they've known they've had this problem for a long time. some blame the military behind the coup saying it was the generals against them rather than political leadership. regardless of where we are now, turkey has absolutely skin in the game, very much in the mix now here. they have two enemies, isis and the kurds. everybody knows they consider the kurds to be the most existential threat. we're in i think now to a yet more complex and yet more -- unsustainable or might say unpredictable part of this five-year war, george. >> it is a complicated affair. our senior international correspondent nick paton walsh live in turkey. nick, thank you so much for the reporting and we will stay in touch with you. for more context on what's happening on the ground there, cnn military analyst retired lieutenant colonel rick francona believes that turkey is planning for what will happen after isis is gone. listen. >> the turks are not worried about what's happening right now i

a live look at the swollen turkey river in clermont this morning. the water is covering an evacuated r-v park this morning. tv9's brea love is there as the river continues to ri " you live close to a river and that's the price you pay " some in northeast iowa say it's the worst flooding they've seen in years as they start to clean up today. rescue crews in italy are digging through rubble hoping to find more survivors. at least 247 people have died from a 6-point-2 earthquake. eight years after flooding...and planning, the northwest recreation center in cedar rapids is opening. this is the last project to use fema money from the 2008 flood. you're watching kcrg-tv9. now, first, meteorologis t kaj o'mara has your first alert forecast, kaj... overall, we have a pretty quiet day in front of us as northwest. this high pressure system will control our weather today and much of tomorrow as well. later on friday night, there is potential for a few showers and thunderstorms, becoming widespread after midnight and into saturday. hopefully most of this can wa

is there a situation looming that turkey would leave nato? >> there's no situation where, according to u.s. officials and also nato that turkey is anywhere close to leaving nato but they have begun to hedge their bets to some extent. they have always been on the periphery of nato to some extent, not part of the eu or a western democratic country, they have always been sort of there. that's part of the reason why turkey has been so important to nato is it was a bridge outside of just western europe. you do see talks between the turkish government, which is increasing li growing hostile to not only the united states but other nato countries. president recep tayyip erdogan is very unhappy after the coup attempt after what the government says was an islamic cleric who lives in pennsylvania. he blames him for launching this coup an he wants to see the united states try to extradite him to turkey. that apparently is not going to happen. he is starting to look in to other allies, but keep in mind there are other deep ties between turkey and nato. tu