more understanding from chancellor merkel to turkey sensitivities cooperation with turkey in the fight against terror more business cooperation. and to be more. optimistic about turkey's european prospects and what can chancellor merkel expect from president add one thing. she can expect from turkey true friendship true cooperation and everyone who knows presenter don would agree that if he makes a promise he keeps it so if she can. to make some promises in exchange of the promises that she will make of course then she knows she'll be delivered cartoonist akon will be watching the macula adwan meeting closely at the very least he says it should serve up enough material for some fresh set tire. now by sheer coincidence stretch of dawn is coming to berlin on the day that europe's football governing body. decides if his country turkey or germany will host the two thousand and twenty four european championships germany favorites to win big foot format turkey's desperate to coast in two thousand and twenty four after having made failed bids for the last three tournament. euro twenty twenty

particularly over turkey's human rights record. can germany and turkey find a way to get along. very well in this current crisis this economic and political crisis that is facing what is totally experts all hopeful from germany well i think as one hopes to get the advantage as it did when you when turkey was that you accession country he wants to get the same financial support he wants to gets funds he needs funds because turkey's economy is depending on the e.u. but turkey is not the same turkey any more and some in berlin even call it that add on republic so you know those is germany ready to give our go on. what he needs i'm not sure i think it will have to be witnessing a change in bilateral relations but also a change in turkey's process officially it's not ended but i mean you have mentioned the e.u. process and e.u. has no leverage on un turkey anymore what could be a way to convince our dong or to make a move in a certain direction is of course the economy and dimension and as for. as i understand where they're going to try to do that but fred at the moment the message f

more understanding from chancellor merkel to turkey's sensitivities cooperation with turkey in the fight against terror more business cooperation. and to be more. optimistic about turkey's european prospects and what can chancellor merkel expect from president add one thing. she can expect from turkey true friendship true cooperation and everyone who knows presenter don when they agree that if he makes a promise he keeps it so if she can. to make some promises in exchange of the promises that she will make of course then she knows she'll be delivered a cartoonist who will be watching the macula adwan meeting closely at the very least he says it should serve up enough material for some fresh set. well will there be any promises over the next four days let's get business with monica on this and some perspective on business relationships between germany and turkey well brian as you can imagine for business people both here in germany also in the in turkey president at once this is to bill and it is somewhat of a mixed picture when turkey is in a currency crisis the low lira is making everyt

out turkey's president. heard that news while he was. he's in berlin on his first state visit aiming to diffuse recent tensions between the two countries and. dr short with what degree of certainty do you believe brett kavanaugh assault. one hundred percent one hundred years. christine blasi forward tells us senators that she was sexually assaulted by president trump's supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh kevin all denies the accusations and is delivering his testimony to lawmakers as we speak. it's good to have you with us we begin tonight with a winner and a loser in european football today germany clinched the right to host football's european champ. chips in twenty twenty four it will be the first time since the two thousand and six world cup that germany jose a major soccer event the announcement was made by european football's governing body you wave after germany won by a vote of twelve to four over turkey so that you will the host of the unit with twenty four. we beat germany german football associa

germany to get out of this crisis well turkey needs germany turkey needs europe having trouble with the with the u.s. again over a imprisoned pastor in turkey and. it's really difficult for turkey to really isolating itself internationally basically and it has this deep economy crisis going on the inside and is isolating itself so for for our two one actually this visit to germany was really maybe kind of a place to breathe that's why it's like we're talking earlier we had visits german foreign minister was in on her the turkish economy was the minister was in berlin so the meetings didn't start so it's just something of a charm offensive turkey's looking for a friend in difficult times turkey looking for a friend in difficult times but. is actually not taking the right steps to find this friend ok what steps what it what is he looking for here what is it looking to get in berlin is this financial aid is this promise of support well he is looking for definitely something to help him with the economy even getting a positive signals from germany or getting. the security that german ge

particularly over turkey's human rights record. can germany and turkey find a way to get along. in this current crisis this economic and political crisis the facing what is to expect a hopeful from germany well i think hopes to get the advantage as it did when you when turkey was that you accession country he wants to get the same financial support he wants to gets funds he needs funds because turkey's economy is depending on you but turkey is not the same turkey any more and some in berlin even call it that add on republic so you know does is germany ready to give our don. what he needs i'm not sure i think we will have to we will be witnessing a change in bilateral relations but also a change in turkey's you process officially it's not ended but i mean you have mentioned the e.u. process e.u. has no leverage on un turkey anymore what could be a way to convince are gone or to make a move in a certain direction is of course the economy and dimension and as for. as i understand where they're going to try to do that but right at the moment the message from the german side is go an

and of course the like we're talking a little earlier about the economy turkey needs germany turkey needs support from germany politically as well so. there has to be a certain kind of give and take and it seems like these five german citizens are going to be those bargaining chips at the end what we have just heard say to the man that we mentioned who disrupted the press conference where it kind of really changed the tone between the two leaders and you can see the tension in their bodies that men a was indeed protesting president i believe is wearing a shirt from what i'm hearing saying you know journalists freedom and this is part of some of the protests that we're seeing here in berlin today i don't know if we have these pictures that we can bring up of that moment when that press conference was disrupted here and as you see him being taken out we heard president and one of the moment who was answering the question stop. both leaders looking there as he's been taking out and we saw at the very end of it smiling just briefly and then continuing on to another question something ma

biddulph misfortune for turkey because turkey is just such a thick importance has always. enabled turkish government kurds one our past ones to get away with with very poor human rights record like us democracy is a lot like cetera so there's that and at a time when the rest of the middle east is in turmoil turkey's stability in turkey is very important for germany and the other european governments and of course we know that there's a lot of kurds presence of turkish community here except for us so for both sides it's an important visit at the important time there but let's be honest relations they are between the two sides germany and turkey have in recent times for the last two years also been all is this time now lots of people say this is a time for a reset in relations between the two so it's i understand that germany views it as a as a momentum where both sides have to sit and talk about it because it's not germany i mean it's aired on who wanted to visit germany so it's understandable that the german government would want to accept i don't in berlin if you want to

lie on the rule of law in turkey business people cond rely on human rights in turkey and all these conditions have to be improved and then business will start. from itself and germany and german companies could invest again in turkey and that could then help the church economy get on its feet again ok fog and those are two points we're going to be talking about today the reliability of the german or the turkish economy rather and its political scene and if germany will be coughing up any cash for ankara for now though thanks very much for being with us right now as part of our live coverage of president wants this it here to germany we're going to go on to other news now before we return to this topic and i q's asians and counterclaims after off a day in the united states of motion testimony on tuesday looking into the nomination for the u.s. supreme court psychologist christine blazing for accusing judge brett kavanaugh of sexual assault on high school cavanaugh denied all the accusations completely republican senators on the committee are pushing for an initial vote on cavanagh's nomination

could that be an advantage for turkey the country is confident its bid can stand on its own turkey's footballing culture its modern stadia and even president add to one's passion for the game positives after three unsuccessful bids this one is meant to click. around everyone can see we're ready to host the iraqis we love football we deserve to be the host of. football's been played in turkey five or one hundred years it's part of our lives here. but financial instability and the drop of the lira could put turkey's bid and potential profits in jeopardy. europe's football governing body has sent out mixed signals they have set clear requirements including on matters such as human rights and freedom of expression on the other hand you a for expects huge tax breaks from the host. its executive committee is made up of twenty members. the german and turkish representatives can vote one member netherlands michel van praag has publicly thrown his support behind turkey. in case of a stalemate you wait for president aleksander shefrin will break the tie some think he will lean towards germany

the economy, compared to turkey. and the idea of human rights, human rights being respected, that continues to be a problem in turkey. we have been hearing reports that that could have been the reason why uefa decided not to give it to turkey. reporter: this is obviously, for uefa, this was the first time in their decision-making process that human rights was going to play a role. still, at the end, uefa is a business. it is sometimes wishful thinking to think it was really human rights. i honestly think it had more to do with the fact the risk was just too big, to let turkey host. the lira has dropped, what is it, the value has dropped. politically the situation is so precarious. we don't know what's going to happen there six years from now. also, i think they were afraid that the, the fear of investments. and turkey in the campaign made promises of tax breaks, of allowing uefa to basically rent-free let them use the stadiums, and i think now that they see, economically how they are doing, they probably knew a lot o

was in there says the economic crisis in turkey is a good opportunity for investment. you can invest and cyclically now the lira has had a drastic decline the euro is strong so you can invest a lot in turkey for less money and that's what i'd recommend now. and despite the current strange political relations german and turkish companies share many interests. because they don't judge and joins us from our parliamentary stereo's first of all a political question for you everyone has come to berlin with a wish list warning support for his government's fight against kurdish militants in the golan movement which he blames for a failed coup considering what's gone down in tokyo over the past couple years and it wants consolidation of power what sort of position is he in to be making demands . quite frankly you know political can and do demand a lot of things but the reality is that turkey is still in the middle of a very difficult economic situation and the political political relations to the us are still difficult there is no alternative economic partner besides europe and

really help turkey achieve . well i think that turkey does look realizes that it has it is in trouble with washington and then there is this tradition that whenever relations are difficult with the u.s. turkey traditionally looks at deeper relations we've europe but until recently toki have been looking to moscow now that course along among turkey's western allies and the president reject all you've heard one repeatedly warned that turkey would look east pop those deepening relations with moscow do appear to have hit a limit as they all regional rivals and the growing tensions in exposed the risks of tokyo pending so heavily almost go so this is part of pokies efforts to report its relationship and it's looking to europe to possibly counterbalance the pendants almost go and going forward looking to strengthen its position to be tough to stand up to washington in the future great melinda coming back you know as we've heard this is all coming against the backdrop of a very difficult economic situation for turkey ho

remarkable achievement on the part of turkey so turkey has it has its own interests in in not having crease in the number of. amber of refugees even if the situation escalated they won't be in germany tomorrow but we have every human in terry an impasse in order to to address the situation in live but i don't think there is a quid pro quo on on on the economy and it live at the way you you portray it did germany has a general interest in a stable turkey we don't want turkey to go down the drain economically because german businesses are invested and they would like to do business in a prosperous and unstable turkey we have three million turkish germans who are deeply connected. with with turkey and where afraid of what would happen if turkey destabilized politically so we have every in we have every interest to work together with the president at a gun for measures that as you said as you put it before that increase investor confidence ok sin and sin and he cannot in istanbul is there a very very subtle calculation on the part of mr erdogan and it's this he knows full well that he ca

lot turkey has been the main. main supporter of the rebels in recent years and they try to save their last bridgehead in the country but turkey is very much focused on the containment of the p.k. k. the kurds in syria that's more important for them russia has made tremendous efforts to rehabilitate the syrian government and to get money for the for the record. struction of the country so there might be a chance that these two two states will be ready to find a negotiated solution the problem is that the syrians and iranian allies seem to have to decided to stop this. there are so many factors here that have not yet been calculated of course we know that u.s. president dollar trump actually warned assad on monday to not recklessly attack it live and the white house strongly cautioned him again reiterated that on tuesday the u.n. security council is also set to meet do you see world powers here the various forces at play potentially on a collision course no i don't because the american declarations. president secret

more understanding from chancellor merkel to turkey sensitivities cooperation with turkey in the fight against terror more business cooperation. and to be more. optimistic about turkey's european prospects and what can chancellor merkel expect from president add one thing. she can expect from turkey through friendship through cooperation and everyone who knows presenter than when they agree that if he makes a promise he keeps it so if she can. to make some promises in exchange of the promises that she will make of course then she knows she'll be delivered cartoonist akon will be watching the macula adwan meeting closely at the very least he says it should serve up enough material for some fresh set tired let's get more from the daily political correspondent rupert vader felt welcome rupert's relations between turkey and germany have been strained for years so why are they trying to change that now. well first of all we have to see that in germany there are more than three million people off took his to send bought half of them even hold a german passport so that alone makes turkey very

absolutely they can't they cannot ignore what turkey is saying turkey is a part of this formats turkey is a neighbor of syria turkey has interests in the security of syria as a direct consequence of its own national security russia has to take these views on board so this meeting here with these three leaders is kind of a chance for russia iran and turkey to work out their red lines and what's they do and do not find acceptable. we are waiting to see whether this is going to resolve itself in a measured moderates incursion into it that takes into account turkey's concerns perhaps involves turkey in a limited military way in the actual operation itself or whether this is going to be more like the kind of assaults that we've seen in past operations where damascus and the iranian militias and russia and its air force have acted in concert to each other receiving rebel areas bombarding them from the air forcing surrenders and therefore wrapping these reveler is up and returning them to damascus we don't yet know what that is going to look like in libya is it going to be the former is it go

in germany as well a lot of stake not only for turkey but for the e.u. as well and you leon first in istanbul thanks very much. now let's get some of the other stories making the news today an intense wildfire in the u.s. state of california has forced the closure of an interstate highway motors had to flee their vehicles as that blaze raged in the shasta trinity national forest scores of houses there under threat many residents have been ordered to evacuate. twitter has permanently banned the right wing internet personality alex jones because of abusive behavior the move comes after you posted a video of himself berating a c.n.n. journalist to social media giant previously suspended him for a week facebook and youtube have taken similar actions against alex jones. one of the front runners in brazil's presidential election the arab also morrow is in stable but critical condition after being stabbed in the abdomen the far right politician was attacked while campaigning. iraq's parliament will convene an emergency session saturday to discuss the situation

one that turkey is still formally in the e.u. accession country so it is it should be expect it should be forced to you know your torso micromanager member nato member to it and secondly it is reliant on like putting it is completely dependent on you know germany and the e.u. this is really an opportunity to press hard. to try to get whatever you know concession that the german government can get and not just for german citizens i mean i find obviously it is certainly disconcerting from the german perspective that german citizens are in jail in turkey but also that elected parliamentarians kurdish part of ontarians elected kurdish mayors journalists academics you know i mean you name it that these people are injured and these are europeans to right because there is also council member and so i think their dens to be a holistic approach here not to single out you know sort of german citizens but to really pressure to add on to change of course you will never be a democrat he will make such.

well turkey's president. he watched that announcement from a hotel room right here in berlin he was in germany on his first state visit official state visit as president and mr. hoping to ease recent tensions between their two countries. reject type out a once presidential plane touching down in berlin this is a two one's first state visit to germany as turkish president but it's not without controversy he faces heavy criticism and to learn about the rule of law in turkey and he hopes this visit to lead to closer cooperation between the two nations or one received a mixed reception in the german capital many supporters waited on the streets hoping to catch a glimpse of his motorcade but there were signs of protest outside the turkish embassy the president's visit was hotly debated in parliament with criticism coming from all sides. oftentimes the arbitrary imprisonment of german citizens has taken a heavy toll on bilateral relations german citizens remain behind bars on charges of a seemingly political nature

what the germany want from turkey. germany needs turkey as a partner certainly on migration with some three million migrants currently in turkey and being kept a largely due to this so-called migration deal with the european union pays billions to support migrants the but to essentially also stop. them from reaching europe supporters and more to the point reaching german borders in the end so it really is important i'm going to go and one has to say that even in the worst of times during these continuous crises that we saw on german turkish relations over the past two years or so that deal was holding so when you want to do a deal with ankara that seems to work out so they can talk business but on other issues like for instance terrorism something that out of one is very keen to stress he talks about the p.k. k. which is also banned in germany the kurdish separatist organization but also the movement and these are two leaders who both have an interest in keeping islamists off. off their ground and containing terrorism

dislike for decades like turkey even before the a.k.p. was in power has had an unstable democracy to put it mildly i miss gibbie's the dust and inched up that's what i wish for all of humanity. the conditions for liberty solidarity and justice. or what i expect of germany and. what i expect of germany is that we start making new laws for the police and homeland ministries to accommodate the far right extremists and right wing populist. instead we should reflect on our basic law again especially the preamble on floor and up there and continue our commitment to world and european peace by. chamish i mean long haul thank you for talking to us. what's coming up on the good fortune. to. take a look at what all that means for the table of. the weekend. here w. a b u w o y t v do you want to branch you silly thank you so much that i'm thinking. my god was. thank you. thank you thank you our. thank you thank you thank you you. thank .

turkey in the campaign they had made these promises of tax breaks of allowing. a five to basically rent free let them use the stadiums and i think now that they see you know economically how they doing they probably knew that a lot of that was not going to happen so they got in also one of i mean turkey is so close to syria and one of the host cities was going to be close to syria and we don't know what's going to geopolitically we don't know right now and the assessment report on turkey i understand that was done by the way but it was not made public right so we really don't know what's what the big risk factors were were just guessing there but when you talk about money the euro it had to play a big role didn't i mean let's hope we can romanticize football all we want but at the end it does come down to money and even like the president if you a fire has not shied away from that and if you look at it i mean they even said that if you look at the overall capacity of all of the stadiums in germany at the end they would have had around two hundred seventy to thre

turkey correspondent judy han in istanbul welcome you here what's at stake here for turkey. well eclipse for turkey is a major security concern not only because the battle over could lead to a final decision in the syrian civil war in favor of president assad and that's certainly something turkey doesn't want but also because it is turkey that would have to deal with the consequences of such a large scale military offensive president arabella again warned today of a bloodbath a massacre as you already mentioned he is concerned of another refugee influx a large scale influx of people into his country considering that turkey is already hosting so many refugees from syria but he is also concerned about jihadist fighters are fighters that are believed to be inside libya thousands of them and they could potentially hide among civilians and try to cross into turkey so now that russia and iran have vetoed any cease fire just to have a plan b. to have this potential humanitarian catastrophe. well that's not entirely clear present out on seem to have not been successful with his prop

supported by turkey from the very beginning are facing now safe haven the support of turkey and they are very thankful to turkey the turkish. government whether they will talk to each other directly probably in the future right they did moment it is the second best solution i will say for both sides. very well saying is going to have this demilitarized zone it's going to it's going to stop conflicts will it be that easy today would you think it will reduce the number of clashes between the militants and the government forces. likelihood is there definitely about the turkish military and the direction military will patrol together like in men beach the turkish american troops during this probably there will be much better coordination also in this respect turkey is in italy the turkish troops. turkey will get also some control points which will add up and make it easier for the for russia to be there and to get the most radical groups out of the area i think turkey is in direct lead helping that the expectation expectations of russia will be fulfilled what russia wants to get out or t

now threatening to retaliate if syrian forces use chemical weapons and germany and turkey find themselves on the same side as they lob a bloodbath in the turkish forces are already at the border preparing for what could likely be another wave of refugees fleeing the fighting. it's good to have you with us britain has called a special meeting of the united nations security council for tomorrow to discuss the evidence that london claims proves russia was behind a chemical weapons attack earlier this year british prosecutors have charged two russians with the attack on former spy script all and his daughter back in march the british government believes the suspects are members of russia's military intelligence agency and that their operation had the kremlin's approved. these are the men british prosecutors have charged with conspiracy to murder. alexander petroff and. are russian citizens but police believe their names are probably in the iss. the men are accused of attempting to murder former russian double agent. and his daughter yulia with a military grade nerve agent a police officer was

also coming up tonight talk about bad timing turkey's president won a rides in berlin looking to reset relations but on the pitch his country took a hit from you guessed it the host alluded to twenty four will be in germany. we begin the day with what may go down in history as the one political event of two thousand and eighteen that had almost the entire world watching today in front of a u.s. senate committee and on live television two people offered two very different versions of how their paths crossed thirty six years ago dr christine blasi ford recalled the terror and trauma that she experienced at a party when she was fifteen years old she told lawmakers that she is one hundred percent certain the person who sexually assaulted her was a seventeen year old named brett kavanaugh the man president has nominated to sit on the u.s. supreme court i was pushed onto the bed and brett got on top of me. he began running his hands over my body and grinding into me. i yelled hoping that someone downstairs might hear me and i tried to get away from him the suite was heavy. brett groped me an

to sochi now where turkey's prize russia. his russian counterpart for talks on the conflict in syria is a province by jim of pollution said there were complicated matters to discuss as they headed in several hours ago this is the second time in ten days the leaders of met one has warned of a blog often it live if syrian government forces backed by russia and iran attempt to recapture the last rebel held territory the un has warned a full scale offensive would lead to the west humanitarian catastrophe in the twenty first century. well the two leaders would you to give a news conference some three hours ago but as you can see we're still waiting for that to begin in the meantime let's speak to worry chalons who is monitoring developments for us from moscow what's behind the delay rory. well it's difficult to say are the moments we were told via the turkish sides several hours ago that the meeting had finished and yet we are still waiting for this press conference now. retired and said going into the meeting with putin the he th

germany still has the biggest turkish community outside of turkey then on the other side turkey is very important for germany as a major player in the middle east region without turkey there won't be any solution to the syria conflict there won't be any solution to the conflicts going on in iraq there will be no conflict in those solution even to the conflict between the palestinians and israel. on the other side turkey is seeking for help in germany for its crippled economy and its currency crisis. so this state visit showed how important these relations are to both governments but on the other side it also showed that both sides really have big problems with each other riverview devolved in berlin thank you very much a lot how a powerful earthquake has rocked indonesia triggering a two metre high tsunami officials now say at least three hundred and eighty four people were killed three metre high waves hit the city of palu on the island of pseudo westie hospitals have been struggling to cope with the injured rescuers are scrambling to reach the stricken region. on lookers horrified as

guardian had learned was typical of the western media coverage just before the leaders of russia turkey and iran got together to discuss the future of the last opposition held strong called in syria did the meeting in tact eliminate the danger of an imminent bloodbath and was it ever on the cards to discuss that i'm now joined by alexi klebnikov middle east expert at the russian international affairs council alexey thank you very much for your time thank you for coming over thank you for inflation now i'm sure you watch the broadcast of the meeting which was quite unusual in a sounds of allowing all of us a glimpse of how global leaders tangled with one another behind closed doors let's watch a clip of what happened at this meeting and then discuss it and if we declare a cease fire this will be a victory for the summit and the most important step in the process will give peace of mind to civilians that it is usually a big state to do but if we don't have representatives of the opposition at the table. i sort of to be the president of turkey is right that would be good too but we can't s

turkey right now is hosting say three point five million syrian refugees. population is three point five million people right now. turkey does not have the resources or the power to host a further three point five million people. we need to take joint steps to prevent migration from this area and to do that. we need to be successful in the fight against terrorism. let's get more from correspondent judy hahn istanbul welcome yulia what's at stake here for turkey. well eat live for turkey is a major security concern not only because the battle over could lead to a final decision in the syrian civil war in favor of president assad and that's certainly something turkey doesn't want but also because it is turkey that would have to deal with the consequences of such a large scale military offensive president again warned today of a blog bath a massacre as you already mentioned he is concerned of another refugee influx a large scale influx of people into his country considering that turkey is already hosting so many refugees from syria but he is also concerned abo

dislike for decades like turkey even before the a.k.p. was in power has had an unstable democracy to put it mildly i miss gibbie's the us i mean that's what i wish for all of humanity. the conditions for liberty solidarity and justice. or what i expect of germany and. what i expect of germany is that we start making new laws for the police and homeland ministries to accommodate far right extremists and right wing populist. this. fall instead we should reflect on our basic law again especially the preamble. up there and continue our commitment to world and european peace by. chamish i mean long haul thank you for talking to us. you relax highlight the. divine construction comes to drill celebrates. the world heritage site. threads fashion label. in paris daring maneuvers drone races get faster and more professional. in west africa there goes a truly magical bean it's cast a spell on people the world over cocoa. yet west africans don't reap much of the profits. they wind up in the pockets of big multinationals can we enjoy chocolate no hold

and many of them are specific to turkey.t five years ago, to istanbul, it was thriving and there was exciting. it was looking like the place to be. have things changed significantly now with president erdogan in his policies and how he has a erdogan in his policies and how he hasa grip erdogan in his policies and how he has a grip on politics and power? and the views of people about investing in turkey, they have changed, haven't they? ever since the attempted military coup, the prospects for the turkish economy have dimmed. it still is, potentially, a huge economy. bites are the economic policies of the erdogan government improving things? no, they will make things worse. and with the tensions in the region and with the tensions in the region and with russia and the united states, the prospects for turkey in the short term without, dare i say it, regime change, are not particularly wonderful. thank you so much for coming in and sharing your thoughts. we will keep an eye on the lyrics today and we will keep you updated. —— o

but geographic location, if you look at the map you see how big turkey is but also how turkey is bordering iraq, syria and you will understand why turkey has been so important in the fight against isis daesh. infrastructure basis area bases have been extremely important in the success we have had in degrading and fighting isis. turkey is also important when it comes to dealing with the migrants and refugee crisis, they hold millions of refugees and they are important to implement agreement between eu and turkey on managing the flow of migrants over gnz. turkey allied which suffered without comparison most terrorist attacks and it's important that we understand that this is something which really is appalling to see the number of terrorist attacks in turkey and also suffered a coup attempt. so, yes, there is a problem, there's a challenge with the decision to buy s400 combined with f35, i welcome the dialogue. this is addressed but at the same time it's important to recognize the importance that turkey is playing to the whole alliance. >> courtney with wall street journal, thank you for doi