terrorists expected to be top of his agenda. john chandra joins us now, co-authored the report on turkey and also the vice president of research at the foundation for the defense of democracy, former terrorism analyst with the treasury department. first of all, what you will outlined in your report is alarming, nato ally with 30 terrorist attacks killing people and you say that turkey has a substantial threat by isis to that country. so what is the result for us? >> the result is that we are seeing a key muslim country that has served as a buffer against terrorists, against isis that appears to be eroding. i believe that really this is the result of disastrous policies carried out by the recep erdogan government, the current one in turkey. they tried to topple in syria by allowing jihadist pluralist to cross their border and in so doing for many years, they