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>> we've told turkey, i spoke with president erdogan of turkey, and i said got to treat them good. you got to take care of isis >> reporter: but the people in the cross-hairs of the impending turkish assault are protesting, desperately appealing for help the kurds have been fighting against isis with u.s. special operations forces and have created an autonomous enclave in syria, which turkey wants to destroy. a kurdish official today tweeting if america leaves, all will be erased turkey's specific goal is to create a buffer zone 20 miles deep, 250 miles long along its border inside syria. pres...

Using here you have to know there are about a couple of thousands of kurdish fighters inside and around africa but also hundreds of thousands of civilians including displaced families from other war ravaged areas in syria and for them the next days are going to be probably anything but safe. turkish president or one has vowed to flush out what he describes as terrorists who are a kurdish enclave in northern syria why do kurdish groups post such a threat to turkey well to keep a long story short turkey consider is the syrian kurdish groups terrorist groups with links to the banned kurdistan wor...

Illegally seized crimea, that means that the turks should look for any legal pretext to shoot down a russian plane. >> but still, at this moment, russia is doing pretty much what it wants in syria. the united states is doing pretty much what it wants in syria. france is operating on us own. if we continue down this road with no clear leader in the fight against isis, aren't we wasting an opportunity? >> well, it's going to be very hard to put together american leadership when people are pushing in other directions. the united states wants to go after isis, but we don't want to empower assad. t...

The various air forces operating over syria. you have the u.s. led coalition and they are very concerned these events may happen again. they have already moved the cruiser into the area. that has a defense system. they are bringing their state of the art system in. the russians build great defense systems. they are just doing what we would do. they are protecting their deployment to syria. >> so we shouldn't look at that as an escalation between russia and turk turkey? >> i wouldn't. if i was running this deployment i would have already had air defense missiles there. it is just part of the pa...

Right. these s-400 surface-to-air missiles are some of the most capable missiles in the world at the moment. they'll certainly be able to escalate the conflict to russia's advantage in the sense that no one will be able to fly in syrian airspace while these missiles are operational. and that's obviously sucking the russians further into the conflict in syria. it's just part of the response that russia is making as a result of the shootdown of its su-24 aircraft by turkish forced yesterday. one of the pilots was killed apparently by rebels as he was parachuting to the ground. the other crew mem...