Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20161211:11:33:00
Is in some ways just a remarkably sad story. it was the jewel of the middle east. istanbul was the crown between the east and the west. and now you have more recently gone back to istanbul, you know, sort of lots of restaurants and bars closed and a lot of exodus from the major city. there's not much the united states can do absent protecting its own citizens in terms of its travel warnings but assisting the turks, at least as it regards the military border or the border of turkey. one of the challenges of the united states we don't want to get in the middle of what is essentially a fight betw...