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I met with the turkish officials who i brought up this buffer zone, and the kurds on one he t there could be a buffer zone, but they were not interested. there is a problem coming forward and it is something that erdogan has. it is not going to help him, and get the pkk more angry, and launching more terrorist attacks in turkey. these things dont work, and the better way is through diplomacy, and erdogan does not operate that way. >> thank you for coming on the broadcast, representative cohen. >...

Does that make sense to you? >> i think turkey has its own set of interests its pursuing right now, vis-a-vis the kurdish areas. i think its important to understand turks may be able to successfully clear some of these areas. whether they can actually hold them is a real question. i dont think the turkish military actually has the capacity to potentially hold this buffer zone together. this is going to be a huge mess in the coming weeks ahead. >> peter, your latest analysis in "the new york time...

On current fact. there is some historical press denti -- precedent for it. so youre dealing with a country thats trying to protect itself. so theyre going to have a buffer zone, an 18-mile buffer zone that goes into northern syria and theyre going to protect that area and resettle kurdish and other refugees in that area. what they want to do is keep their country as secure as possible and they feel that they can do that by going 18 miles deep into northern syria. >> aaron david miller, to hear b...

Out, those three objectives went out the window. the only objectives the turks want is a buffer zone, as your previous reporter said, and get the hundreds of thousands of refugees theyve got out of turkey and into that area, and while theyre at it, they want to take the syrian kurds down. how do we fix this. we really have to put the turks in a position where it is more painful for them to keep doing what theyre doing than it is to revert to the status quo secretary esper talked about, and i don...

We equipped them and trained them for years. they should be able to fight alone and the idea that withdrawing 50 troops is catastrophic for the kurds. they didnt follow our advice. they negotiate an outcome similar to iraq. people didnt listen. they could have had something different than what we have seen play out today. allowed the turks to have understandably a buffer zone primarily with terrorism, they have millions of syrian refugees in turkey they are paying 4. they want them to go home an...

A victory today in a major city along the border that used to be in curtis hands, now turkey claims it is in their hands. they are planning to fix several major highways in northeast syria. their goal is to push 20 miles in, a buffer zone. as far as casualties go, 20 civilians on each side have been killed. it is hard to get a clear picture of the a number of soldiers or kurdish fighters killed so far in four days of heavy activity. both sides exaggerate the numbers. the chaos the operation is p...

Turkey made the decision to go into that northern syria area, the president of the united states had no choice but to move away and allow it to happen. do you agree? >> no, i dont agree. i think the pushback could have come as soon as erdogan suggested that he was breaking off negotiations to establish a safe zone which had been going on for weeks. paul: right. >> and that he was going to establish that safe by force. i think our response should have been that we control the air space in that ar...

To the kurdish people. its important to stress that all civilian lives need to be protected. syria is a multiethnic, multireligious country and the ypg is a minority of a minority. we need -- eric:-eric: erdogan in turkey considers them a terrorist group. we have reports of upwards of 100,000 could have fled their homes and this continues as he tries to build out that buffer zone that he wants and hes doing it amid international condemnation and now the president says its a bad idea. so what wou...

Turkeys insistence on having this 30-kilometer buffer zone on their border. but if turkey expands beyond that, there needs to be pushback on turkey about that situation. and so i think the most important part is that a safe zone does need to be implemented. syrians need to be able to have a safe place to seek refuge from the assad regime, from the russians, from iranian backed irgc, from hezbollah, and the people -- were talking about the people in northeastern syria. whats also incredibly impor...

Green light to do this. >> we are committed to oural lies. well stay that way. were going to proceed smartly, given the actions. understand, president trump didnt cause this action. it was caused by turkey. arthel: stev steve harigan he latest. >> reporter: no sign of a slowdown. just adross border, into syria, their goal the they say is to create a buffer zone 20 miles deep into syria. theyre calling this an anti-terror operation. you can see plumes of smoke rising from different villages and t...