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Talking about this in 2014 or 2015 we would have been talking about the way turkey was being used as a rear base by isis, people from europe going to join isis, went through turkey all the time, almost free passage through turkey to syria, to join the ranks of the islamic state. that started to end about a yearniyear ago and in the last few months finally the turks moved their military force against isis in its strongholds particularly around the now besieged city of al baab in northern syria. isis sees this as a betrayal. they see this as erdogan going back on whatever agreements they had wit...

>> reporter: chris, it was a very quick briefing with reporters. there were no details given on the arrests, on who the people they arrested were. no details whatsoever on the manhunt and whether he might still be in the istanbul area or if he's in the countryside or in another country. they're being very tight lipped on the status of the manhunt and where the suspect might be. >> kelly cobiella in istanbul thank you. >> christopher dickey who joins us live from paris. you and i have been on the scene in the last year actually on a number of attacks. what is your sense and what are you hearing...

Attack, the nightclub attack, calls him a defender of the cross, as if he's not a muslim, but somebody defending christians, and it's said that the people who were in the nightclub were probably christians celebrating a christian holiday, although actually most of the people were turks and arabs, most from muslim backgrounds so that is all about taunting erdogan and this is going to get worse and worse and worse. in terms of the people who are likely being arrested, i'd say almost certainly they're from central asia, probably very much like maybe even connected to the people who carried out th...

Rolled up when they started carrying out terrorist attacks, and some of which were not, because remember, also, that the big terrorist issue for erdogan is the kurds. it wasn't isis. that's why he was reluctant to fight isis. when he moved in to northern syria, he moved in to stop the kurds from consolidating their opinions as the fight against isis. it's a complicated situation and one that is dang ruls for tdang for the turks. coming up, weather woes. 2017 starts off with a rough round of wind, hail and dangerous conditions. what you need to kno next. this is msnbc. knowow busyour li. mom:...