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Away from the border and take more away from that very sliver of land, small sliver of land, that amounts to ethnic cleansing. so, this war continues. every now and then, turkey push in with ground troops, but very regularly they will bomb areas, they will use their warplanes and they will use drones to bomb areas in northern iraq and northern syria. and is president erdogan using the fact that everybody�*s attention seems to be on ukraine to do this? well, the geopolitics of this are really i...

They might be perhaps a little bit more relaxed when it comes to allowing president erdogan to do what he wants in northern syria and northern iraq. youve just mentioned northern syria. theres fighting going on there, too, involving, what, turkey, russia, syria itself. you have areas that are held by the kurds, by the syrian democratic forces. you have rebel—held areas in the west of syria. you have areas along the turkish border that are turkish controlled and turkish administered. you have i...

A green light by russia and to an extent by the us. if they both strongly oppose a fresh ground operation, then president erdogan is in trouble. he cant really go ahead on his own. but here is where the geopolitics become even more interesting, because ukraine plays very strongly here. you will remember — and weve talked about it on the programme, john — about how turkey has played this important role because they have good relations with the west and they have cordial relations with russia,...

I think i would prefer to be a ukrainian soldier on the front line at the moment. i wouldnt id like to be either, by the way, but id prefer to be a ukrainian soldier on the front line than i would be a russian. more likely to affect the morale of the russians than the ukrainians? ithink so, because, you know, weve already seen russian morale at a pretty low point. and we know that there are people with very little training being thrown into the front line, and the ukrainians happily talking abou...

The kurdish groups which it doesnt like, chief among them the pkk, together with any support for creating a kurdish state. anna foster, the bbc�*s middle east correspondent, monitors the war from beirut. what you have on the one hand is turkey, and you have president erdogan�*s desire, he says, to secure the turkish borderfrom kurdish militant groups. in the main, the pkk, the kurdistan workers party. and what they want is a state for these around about 30 million ethnic kurds who have no st...

Months ago that grain deal which allowed ukrainian grain that was blocked in the ports to be able to come through mine—filled waters and safely start to spread around the rest of the world. so turkey has a trump card to play here. and some people wonder whether, as russia and as the west try and keep turkey onside, they might be perhaps a little bit more relaxed when it comes to allowing president erdogan to do what he wants in northern syria and northern iraq. youve just mentioned northern sy...

Northern iraq, and some of them are in western iran. and they are concentrated in these small areas, one of which borders turkey. and so president erdogan says he needs to keep his border secure, but the kurds say that, as he continues to try and push them away, push them south, away from the border and take more away from that very sliver of land, small sliver of land, that amounts to ethnic cleansing. so, this war continues. every now and then, turkey push in with ground troops, but very regul...

Bashar al—assad in power. the war there, which has gone on for more than a decade, has turned into a free—for—all, with various outside powers able to do pretty much what they want. turkey, for instance, is trying to wipe out the kurdish groups which it doesnt like, chief among them the pkk, together with any support for creating a kurdish state. anna foster, the bbc�*s middle east correspondent, monitors the war from beirut. what you have on the one hand is turkey, and you have presiden...

In a weaker position, frankly, than he has for a very long time. the turkish economy is in a terrible state, so for him, it shows strength. its good with voters for him to be seen as being tough on terror, but he cant really do these things unilaterally. he needs to be given a green light by russia and to an extent by the us. if they both strongly oppose a fresh ground operation, then president erdogan is in trouble. he cant really go ahead on his own. but here is where the geopolitics become ev...

Elections in turkey next year and he is going into them in a weaker position, frankly, than he has for a very long time. the turkish economy is in a terrible state, so for him, it shows strength. its good with voters for him to be seen as being tough on terror, but he cant really do these things unilaterally. he needs to be given a green light by russia and to an extent by the us. if they both strongly oppose a fresh ground operation, then president erdogan is in trouble. he cant really go ahead...