the school is for young turkish people many of them dream of finding work in turkish television. while john watches his friend at work i try to interview some of the turkish students but they don't feel like talking they'd found out that we were coming and debated whether they should talk to us some said that if they appeared in the same reporters john it could hurt their careers. they want to. and somebody says that he or she was in the course of job. once again carter. from the protect. these kinds of things together is of. mostar is working on a new project. it's a film about the twenty first taksim gazey park protests in istanbul showing how the turkish people rose up against repression. is the summer girls little. break you may be and how they had their hopes dashed. sooner or starve i was among those who tended to the wounded. only to do. good work or. we didn't leave our country our country left us. even. the book it's not a good feeling can do just the day i did. you work for your country for half a century. you fight for a better society and a better world. hurry reveals

the news coming to you live from but then a turkish journalists jailed in turkey for a year has been freed the dentist you chip is accused of terrorism and espionage by turkish authorities but he was never formally charged the case of strained relations between turkey and germany we get the latest from our correspondents in istanbul and here in berlin. also coming up on the show the security in the spotlight diplomats defense ministers and well you do gather at the munich security conference to assess the biggest trying to piece in the but. i'm on the thought she not welcome to the show was talk that some breaking news turkish german journalist dennis your chin is to be feed after a year in prison usually was jailed on suspicion of spreading propaganda in support of a terrorist organization and inciting violence he denies the allegations and in fact he was never charged with any crime his detention had strained relations between germany and turkey futures impending release comes a day off the german chancellor angela merkel pushed for movement on your case in a budget meeting with tu

the school is for young turkish people many of them dream of finding work in turkish television. while john watches his friend at work i try to interview some of the turkish students but they don't feel like talking they'd found out that we were coming and debated whether they should talk to us some said that if they appeared in the same reporters jan it could hurt their careers. because they want to. and if somebody says that he or she was in the course of a job. once they get cut off. from the project i think they want goodies these kinds of things together as of. mostafa he's working on a new project. it's a film about the twenty first teen taksim gazey park protests in istanbul showing how the turkish people rose up against repression. if you summer girls little. make you may be and how they had their hopes dashed. or starve i was among those who tended to the wounded. to. work. we didn't leave our country our country left us. even. the book it's not a good feeling gendered history of the day i need you to build your own you work for your country for half a century and then.

was a political maneuver give us a turkish perspective as to why they put in jail despite knowing the budget was very unhappy with the move. from the very beginning is insisting the legal authorities are completely independent from any political interference they say that the prosecutors will take their time it's up to them whether he is prosecuted if he's in charge of them will go to court this is nothing to do with politics although it has to be said that. the fact that he's been held for over a year without being formally charged did fuel speculation that it was very much he was a victim of the ongoing tensions between. that was always robustly tonight by the prime minister and president but i did to that there is the fingers of political and interference at the fact that the president. accused you of being a spy before he after he had been detained in place that he wouldn't leave the country while he is empowered so that only fueled the speculation of political involvement in this case as with a number of other prominent cases involving foreigners but going forward i think. this i

taken by theage turkish government against germany. lawunrest had no links with and even his release has no relation to law. it was like a negotiation between the countries. and something happened behind the curtains and he is now free. peter: let us hear what he himself had to say. : the funny thing is i still do not know why i was arrested a a year ago. why i was precise, taken hostage a year ago. i also do not know why i was released today. ♪ , you also spent time in a turkish jail. about how always read turkish journalists suffered. i have learned personally that your government never forgets what you did before. even if you do not have any .inks with the gulanists they never forget about your past. erdogan never forgets about the journalists. they punish you at the right time. after the putsch they used it to punish their old enemies. peter: frightening and punishing. you worked with deniz yucel erds about the journalists. at taz where you work presently. what was your reaction? we were immenselyou relieved. it was also stressfu

four million people almost living in germany with a turkish passport and the turkish president has come here several times talking to . dina has it upon an interest to do this and dorian jones in istanbul thank you both very much for your input into that story and we'll talk to you again later in the day thank you very much for now. you're watching the t.v. news coming to you live from london let me just recap our top story that we're following for you the judge's job and his future has been freed from jail and has for a year we got for my challenges the back to tell me about the book . the be . the best. the book. the beat created milestone. was an instrument of propaganda and to persecution to our feet on the into bankruptcy and restructuring. but still turning on films today. follow germany's biggest and oldest film company. in america street from the german empire to the present. starting february eighteenth. green on the verge of a new war. and who will defend europe. this year's munich security conference takes place at a time of great insecurity internationally to this day coveri

turkish -- and i in strongly encourage you to follow her. with that i want to start the conversation and i want to first ask you part of the problem with the afghan operation and what we have been hearing here is that turkey says its fighting the ypj because the ypj poses the number one security threat and an existential threat to turkey and its saying that because the ypj is an offshoot of the pkk which is the kurdish insurgency group that has been fighting inside the turkish state for the last several decades. you know the kurdish movement while and you know the kurdish movement in syria as well as the pkk and given the discourse here between turkey saying the pkk and ypj are worn the same and therefore cooperation with the ypj amounts to cooperation with the pkk and yet the united states over the last three years say they are different enough that they can keep working with the ypj and also tell turkey that it will aid to turkey's fight against the pkk so it's a very complex pusher -- picture and it's a conundrum for the turks and the ame

chel has been freed after a year in a turkish prison but on the same day six turkish journalists have been jailed for life for their alleged involvement in the failed coup in twenty six. as for you child he is free for now but he is still facing charges in turkey accused of spreading terrorist propaganda and prosecutors are seeking a jail term of up to eighteen years as part of what has been a major crackdown on free speech in the country for the time being however his supporters in germany and his family are celebrating. and you know what germany's foreign minister was the bearer of good news and yeah i think yes it's a good day and then issued a challenge free speech on its way to estimate the point from the speaking at a press conference at the headquarters of dennis you tells a lawyer of the german daily developed gabriele told reporters that you just release was a victory for diplomacy. we talked extensively to our turkish partners yes that started with me asking former chancellor gerhard schroeder to open the doors for us in this time the two of should i went there twice for us.

been reported across the turkish media and also the semi official news agency. have confirmed that the court has accepted an indictment by the prosecutors against as you tell this has been a major criticism the fact is taken well over a year but then as usual to face any formal prosecution now it appears about incitement has been filed and it's a very serious one it's called inciting enmity within the country and terrorist propaganda and these these can carry up to eighteen years in jail so a very serious offense is now the key question here will be will dennis you'll be allowed to leave the country or will leave or will the court in his decision insist that he stays in the country until this case has proceeded the evidence in previous cases where peter a well known german human rights activist he was allowed to leave the country pending his case against him on similar serious offenses last year by the way also the turkish journalist she has been forced to stay in the country until her case has concluded so it's on clear what will happen here but this will be a

syrian army militias are alike to turkish forces but the key points of the turkish front here now if syrian forces are deployed on that front here that brings a prospect of a possible confrontation that is the big concern because in the syrian civil war it's been mainly proxy wars but there have not been outright confrontations between two such to neighboring countries that is now the major risk now of possible obvious scenario for our own koreas that it opens up direct negotiations with damascus that is what turkish opposition parties have been calling for but the turkish president reject typer one has ruled this out he says how can i expect to talk to a man who has killed half a million people so it's really unclear where oncor world will go forward from here they have attached a lot of political capital to this operation there's a lot at stake here and added to our own chris concerns will be will most what will moscow to moscow at the moment is allowing turkish forces to use syrian air space if this deal with the syrian regime and the kurdish forces is going forward will moscow no

news live from bird lane a year and a turkish prison without being tried or charged and the turkish german journalist denis you child has been released his wife was there to beat him. but six others get life sentences and more than one hundred still remain in jail as turkey's crackdown on the press continues also coming up nato secretary general talks tough on north korea he says that maximum pressure should be applied to force it to abandon its nuclear missile program. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program thanks for joining us the turkish german journalist denis you child has been freed after a year in a turkish prison but on the same day six turkish journalist and a newspaper employees have been jailed for life for their alleged involvement in the failed coup in twenty sixteen as for you tell you now faces charges of spreading terrorist propaganda in turkey for the time being however he is free. dennis you joe's last minute some turkish soil before boarding a plane back to germany freedom at last after one year in jail earlier germany's foreign ministers a good job real was the bearer

more not just talking any about turkish and u.s. conflicts of interests here, but increasingly one of the russians and americans with a sort of i guess beginning to knock their thes against each other, battle lines draw closer and closer, particularly in that area. yeah, it is getting extremely sticky. and i think the russians are playing a sort of finely calibrated game of sort of turning that cap on and off for the turks. and what we are beginning to that the more the kurds are perceived as allies of the united states and parts of this alleged effort to get rid of assad to counter iranian influence will be seeing the russians more and more allowing more turkish aggression against the ypg. >> right, one of the reports that came out of the sds when turkey's operations began is a said they believe this was happening because russia had offered the ypg to strike a deal local autonomy and that they had rejected it. the statement came from the sds, but it was in reference to the ypg. it looks like russia might be trying to maybe split th

it has been a terrible day for several other turkish journalists well known turkish journalists who were charged today. with a terrorist propaganda in the name of the so-called green movement and actually they were sentenced to life times in jail this is a very very harsh sentence for journalists so of course this day has mixed emotions and many people here are shocked about this really really hard verdict when it comes to other turkish journalists. and here in germany the first day of the annual munich security conference has begun the event sees heads of state foreign and defense ministers and diplomats gather to discuss international security policy germany's defense minister used her speech to criticize u.s. moves to cut spending on the united nations a sort of underlying also argued that diplomacy and development aid were as necessary as military strength and she spoke about europe's role in nato. and we want to remain transatlantic we also want to become more european or we want to enable europe to carry more weight in terms of military power so that europe can be more independent

were to fall to the turkish lead slash turkish backed forces that would mean that there would be a whole stretch of about two hundred kilometers that would be as far as the syrian regime's concerned dangerously close to that area of partition or the consequence of the potential consequence of partition that you hinted at earlier if that's the case is that something is that something that ankara wants to get to or does it just is it happy to stay within this idea of border integrity as it stands at the moment. well i think the latter is true for turkey because. it is important to. see that that syrian regime the syrian syria as a as a country has the territorial integrity and has the thick curate off its borders or it is their turkish borders as well now but it needs to grant power again it needs to grant negotiation and under the table to make such such agreements between the parties. so far it has not achieved but if it achieved i don't think that turkey will object to that and i don't think that turkey will be the party that is piling that that is not letting that happen so that's my p

journalist denny's you tell it was released from a turkish prison after spending a year in detention with no charges brought now many people here in germany are asking why did president wretched tire bedouin let you walk free was a deal of some kind struck and what does it all have to do with turkey's military incursion into northern syria so our question here on quadriga this week then as you joe is free but what game is turkey playing and to discuss that question i'm joined here in the studio by. who writes only turkey for the front for the argument and site he says freedom for dennys you joe doesn't symbolize a serious change into unfortunately there is no place for hope yet it's also with us his mission to man as a foreign policy specialist for the weekly sites he lived for several years in istanbul and he argues that turkey is hoping for transactional deals but values stand in the way of closer relations with germany and a warm welcome troops are already cahow men author and journalist with the berlin based daily the target sites on board since it is also. worked for many years

germany's foreign minister has called for a german turkish journalist being held in turkish jail to receive a fair and speedy trial tennessee a child was arrested one year ago suspected of terror and espionage offenses and has still not been charged the sigma gabrielle's call comes after turkey's prime minister suggested that there may soon soon be movement in the case dennis you charles continued detention has soured relations between on korea and berlin. this maximum security prison in istanbul is where denise huge amount is being held one year after the journalists arrest and no formal charges have been made. so why the state nation it's a question for which turkish prime minister banally has a simple answer. that it is not my decision to make but the courts. i hope that he will be released soon. and i'm confident there will be development soon or not the. critics are don't feel that the judiciary will treat you case fairly. but you drams remarks have given germany renewed hope. this may not be able to miss conduct a mistake that there will be a judgment soon by. us since i don't quote m

cheap fighters is the kurdish syrian alliance capable of repellant the turkish offensive indeed the turkish military capabilities are overwhelming it's the biggest military contribute to nato with seven hundred thousand soldiers and arms to be honest i'm not really through hope tookie will proceed or advance in northern syria because actually they have accomplished what they wanted to accomplish to tame the kurds to put it this way and now the kurds obtain both the syrian regime and there's no immediate danger of syria sorry code of autonomy. what makes the african region so important mark is this so important that turkey in syria would risk a direct military confrontation with each other over that rich as it does mention fall of tokyo freeman is a possible new clues of the could have stayed or at least territorial for autonomy autonomy of soul of whatever you prefer which has to be avoided in full syria it's in the symbol of caesar and to talk to me as well the way that syria is going to fall apart which has to be avoided therefore to keep or to regained fifteen is a poll full so move that

journalist dennys you tell it was released from a turkish prison after spending a year in detention with no charges brought snow many people here in germany are asking why did president wretch have tire better one let you joe walk free was a deal of some kind struck and what does it all have to do with turkey's military incursion into northern syria so our question here on quadriga this week then as you joe is free but what game is turkey playing and to discuss that question i'm joined here in the studio by. who writes on turkey for the front for the argument it's item he says freedom for dennys you joe doesn't symbolize a serious change in turkey unfortunately there is no place for hope he adds also with us his mission to man as a foreign policy specialist for the weekly treat sites he lived for several years in istanbul and he argues that turkey is hoping for transactional deals but values stand in the way of closer relations with germany and a warm welcome center or rekha how man author and journalist with the berlin based daily the target sites on board says it is also more comm

offensive that began last month syrian state media say turkish forces are shelling the pro-government fighters also coming up hakim phoenix says he usually hates film festivals but not the rally in iowa where he's starring in a gus van sant movie don't worry he won't get far on foot stick around for all the buzz from our correspondents down at the red carpet. great to have you along everyone we start off in syria where government backed troops have entered a fitting a kurdish enclave in the north of the country raising the specter of deadly confrontation with turkey columns of fighters were seen moving into afi despite threats from turkey that it would lease siege to the city in the coming days there are reports that turkey has already begun shelling the area the region is controlled by kurdish forces turkey considers them terrorists. all right well let's get you the latest on those breaking developments syrian pro-government a freighter is entering kurdish held our friend despite turkish threats dorian jones is in istanbul for you are dorian what more are you hearing. well you're rig

were to fall to the turkish lead slash turkish backed forces that would mean that there would be a whole stretch of about two hundred kilometers that would be as far as the syrian regime's concerned dangerously close to that area of partition or the consequence of the potential consequence of partition that you hinted at earlier if that's the case is that something is that something that ankara wants to get to or does it just is it happy to stay within this idea of border integrity as it stands at the moment. well i think the latter is true for turkey because. it is important to. see that that the syrian regime the syrian syria as a as a country has the territorial integrity and has the security off its borders or it is their turkish borders as well but it needs to grant power again it needs a grant negotiation and under the table to make such such agreements between the parties. so far it has not achieved but if it achieved i don't think that turkey will object to that and i don't think that turkey will be the party that is piling that that is not letting that happen so that's my point

remember during a visit to jordan the turkish foreign minister said a deal wouldn't affect his country's resolve. the port of my kitchen or to my solemn occasion if the syrian regime really does tend to x. raying to cleanse kurdish militia then there's no problem however if it comes in to protect them then nothing and nobody can deter and stop the turkish army it's very clear operation all if branch and affray names to cleanse these areas from terrorists if you bid terrorists that it would look at turkey is keen to avoid a kurdish stronghold on its southern border with syria so its own forces launched a major military of the for alliances and rivalries in syria. we have with us she is the president of the european center for kurdish studies here in berlin thank you for joining us in our studio today we heard that turkey's president ed was saying that he's talked to. to russia he's talked to iran and he's managed to stop the syrian government from its plans to send its own troops into this region northern syria into offering who are the real power brokers here well you already mentioned t

[inaudible] recently they attacked a turkish convoy and libya. i think what they would like to do, it shows how complicated it may be an russia doesn't have that much leverage so they decided to deploy and sent a convoy. i thinkes what turkey is trying to d do is trying to prevent the regime to support the ypg. i think they would like to see a weekend t ypg and weekend. [inaudible] i think after it started, just like the regime was doing in the north. they got too close. [inaudible] the question i think both the people in government circles and your position, they been asking the government to close down but it's not an easy decision an identical come to that. it's one of the few leverages that they have over washington.rk [inaudible] even then turkey did not close down the base. i don't think, yes people are seeing that it's time to close it down in the u.s. is using this airbase so why do we still allow the u.s. to use the airbase. that what what the government and a difficult spot. i don't think he will do that because that is one of the few l

let me get in istanbul if a friend and man be were to fall to the turkish led slash turkish backed forces that would mean that there would be a whole stretch of about two hundred kilometers that would be as far as the syrian regime's concerned dangerously close to that area of partition or the consequence of the potential consequence of partition that you hinted at earlier if that's the case is that something is that something that ankara wants to get to or does it just is it happy to stay within this idea of border integrity as it stands at the moment. well i think the latter is true for turkey because. it is important to. see that that the syrian regime the syrian and syria as a as a country has the territorial integrity and has the security off its borders or it is their turkish borders as well but it needs to grant power again it need. grant negotiation and under the table to make such such agreements between the parties. so far it has not achieved but if it achieved i don't think that turkey will will object to that and i don't think that turkey will be the party that is piling that

the borders of turkey and the americans of course promised it to the turkish ministration to the turkish president that they will definitely not they're allowed the right p.g.a. to fight with turkey saw from this perspective any corporal any war between kurds and turks will be not the case the question is here with control in which. from this perspective i will see turkey the moment the strongest one. set regime a lot of turkey to still go into certain territories but it can change in the coming days that they accuse turkey. to be the way they have to be interventionist and once again russia will be the key player how this conflict is going to their other or to be solved only russia and america did interventions fighting sides can come to a conclusion otherwise. i do not expect that. bashar assad regime would be able to present the same. words around things are. my guess the same by cheap professor of international relations rancorous middle east technical university many thanks. now both samples of a medal winning curler from russia have tested positive for the prohibited meltdown and t

assault so it means that the turkish assault is progressing. absolutely martin and that's what turkish sources have been saying that this figure of hundreds of fighters arriving in africa and it's likely exaggerated the largest convoy which tried to enter and to after voice stopped by turkish shelling and there are these are sporadic because it is a mountainous region with many roads leading to offer in the small pockets of fight a small number of the fighters belonging to pro assad government militias have reached the city and as you've been watching in pro-government media outlets footage is and videos that they have been trying to expose say that they are there to explain that they have not abandoned the kurdish rebels who asked for help from the syrian government but the kurdish rebels the spokesman for the kurdish rebels told the reuters news agency that they are slightly disappointed in the number of and the help the kind of help that they have received so far because they wanted the syrian government to protect its territorial integrity

were to fall to the turkish lead slash turkish backed forces that would mean that there would be a whole stretch of about two hundred kilometers that would be as far as the syrian regime's concerned dangerously close to that area of partition or the consequence of the potential consequence of partition that you hinted at earlier if that's the case is that something is that something that ankara wants to get to or does it just is it happy to stay within this idea of border integrity as it stands at the moment. well i think the latter is true for turkey because. it is important to. see that that syrian regime the syrian and syria as a as a country has the territorial integrity and has the thick curate off its borders or it is their turkish borders as well but it needs to grant power again it needs a grant negotiation and under the table to make such such agreements between the parties. so far it has not achieved but if it achieved i don't think that turkey will object to that and i don't think that turkey will be the party that is piling that that is not letting that happen so that's my po

during a visit to jordan the turkish foreign minister said a deal wouldn't affect his country's resolve. if one of my kitchen order must all of my kitchen you know if the syrian regime really does enter affray into clans kurdish militia then there's no problem however if it comes in to protect them then nothing and nobody can detach and stop the turkish army it's very clear operation olive branch and affray names to cleanse these areas from terrorists and if it terrorists that it would then your. turkey is keen to avoid a kurdish stronghold on its southern border with syria so its own forces launched a major military offensive into a frame last month in a bid to expel the kurdish fighters that control the region the offensive has further complicated an already but will during web of alliances and rivalries in syria. and to help explain the fallout of a possible deal between the syrian kurds and assad i have with me here in the studio middle east analyst daniel baer lucky is also the editor in chief of zenith magazine and daniel thank you so much for joining us this evening thank you as

this network aims to drum up support for the turkish ruling party's agenda mills. talks liberals a call to live in and i have you personally experienced intimidation or being threatened. sadly yes and i think it's scandalous that elected delegates are threatened here in germany just for holding a mandate acting on this political mandate and acting on their conscience that the . war but what the turkish government and the president himself has repeated the educated against german lawmakers just for doing their jobs. with just for expressing your opinion and trying to reorient germany's foreign policy regarding turkey. coupled with that in that you receive hateful messages on your social media profiles how do you deal with that when this lot by take action if there are death threats then i report everything i will not accept this i don't accept that the internet is somehow a place where the law doesn't apply where you can just insult people. i think it's ok to have a tough fact based arguments and i encourage it. but there can be. no insults hatred or hate speech tha

this is deja vu doos live from berlin a year in a turkish prison without being tried or charged turkish german journalist denis you child has been released and his wife was there to meet him. but six others get life sentences and more than one hundred still remain in jail as turkey's crackdown on the press continues. also coming up russian meddling u.s. special prosecutor robert muller charges thirteen russians with plotting to interfere in the twenty sixteen presidential election we'll go live to washington and germany's defense minister criticizes the united states for moves to cut its spending on the united nations and europe she says must take on more of the military burden in nato. plus we will be live at the berlin film festival where they are showing a comedy western involving a miniature horse damsels villains and robert pattinson. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program thanks for joining us. the turkish german journalist denys you child has been freed after a year in a turkish prison but on the same day six turkish journalists have been jailed for life for their alleged involve

business to give you news live from berlin a deadly weekend for turkish soldiers and seven die in operations in syria but it's civilians in our friend who bear the brunt of the insult of turkey aims its firepower act heard this militia is there look at the races from our correspondence . we might as a mess shoot down a russian or a plane and let the province the pilots parachute stand but it's killed in fighting on the ground. and we take a look at that i'm just going to think action as the race for a spot in the top four heats up by six from said gladbach looking to overturn their poor run of form but they would need to find their goal scoring britain's first to have a chance stay tuned for all the highlights. i know it's on a welcome to the program the turkish army says that seven of its soldiers have been killed in northwest syria this weekend it marks the deadliest day for their forces since turkey began its operation against kurdish fighters last month civilians have paid a price for the fighting but shelling forcing thousands to leave their homes turkey's military post has been focused

the city is the focus of an attack by the turkish army. as they vent their anger, protesters carry pictures of abullah ocalan, he's jail leader of the pkk, the kurdish group which has waged a decades—long war inside turkey. the syrian kurds have been pushing for autonomy and turkey has grown increasingly nervous — invading northern syria was their response. a bbc arabic crew travelled through territory controlled by the syrian army, before arriving here. there was no attempt to stop them. despite its own misgivings about kurdish separatism, it seems damascus is even more incensed by turkey's actions. it has just announced it will send troops to help repel the invasion. as turkish warplanes attack border villages, civilians flee towards afrin. this dark cellar is all the shelter this woman could find for herself and her children. translation: on that day there was bombing. the planes came over our village, it bombed the area. we were frightened and we left. my daughter was crying. we came here to this cave. you can see, it is dark and s

german journalist denis you child is freed by a turkish court but six turkish journalists are sentenced to life we look at the country as ongoing assault on free speech i'm sara kelly in berlin this is the day before and. boy i mean i to be saved like many others is that i'm happy he's out of jail on the psyche thought it shows that talking isn't completely useless isn't it didn't do this in the sense that we know that there are other perhaps not so prominent cases of people who are in turkish prisons and we looked at their legal proceedings will be dealt with quickly and according to the rule of law. one man gets out of jail six others get life sentences freedom of the press is under fire in turkey on friday one of the country's most prominent detainee b.s. german turkish journalist dennis you child was released after a year of being held in a turkish jail without charge he had germany's top diplomats campaigning heavily for him including the german chancellor who met with turkey's prime minister on thursday. but celebration is tempered by the reality that on the very same day six othe

journalist pennies you tell it was released from a turkish prison after spending a year in detention with no charges brought now many people here in germany are asking why did president wretch of typesetter one let you joe walk free was a deal of some kind struck and what does it all have to do with turkey's military incursion into northern syria so our question here on quadriga this week then as you joe is free but what game is turkey playing and to discuss that question i'm joined here in the studio by. who writes only turkey for the frankfurter allgemeine zeitung he says freedom for ten is you joe doesn't symbolize a serious change in turkey unfortunately there is no place for hope yet it's also with us is michaud to man as a foreign policy specialist for the weekly team sites he lived for several years in istanbul and he argues that turkey is hoping for transactional deals but values stand in the way of closer relations with germany and a warm welcome to the. reka how many author and journalist with the berlin based daily the target sites on board taps as it is also more commonly

by a turkish court but six turkish journalists are sentenced to life we look at the country as ongoing assault on free speech i'm sara kelly in berlin this is the day. for the morning. for you me if i can say it like many others that i may not be he is out of jail on the site which though it sure is the talking isn't completely useless he's unfit to do this in those days now we know that there are other perhaps not surprised that in cases of people who are in turkish prisons that we have the daily proceedings will be dealt with quickly and according to the rule of law. one man gets out of jail six others get life sentences freedom of the press is under fire in turkey on friday one of the country's most prominent detainee be german turkish journalist denis you chel was released after a year of being held in a turkish jail without charge he had germany's top diplomats campaigning heavily for him including the german chancellor who met with turkey's prime minister on thursday but celebration is tempered by the reality that on the very same day six other journalists were sentenced to life

relations following up to several talks german government officials and turkish government officials had the last time we didn't pay any political price for that and we appreciate the decision of the turkish state but the reason for the crucial situation in turkey is i think the state of emergency which justice and media are to be free and independent and we have what we expect is that the turkish government is also thinking about the release of that state of emergency coming back to normal democratic and legal structures and the country and this is not yet decided the case then is just jail is now positive decided but it's not the situation is

the extradition of the syrian politician who was taken into custody in prague over the weekend on a turkish arrest warrant salim muslim was once head of syria's main kurdish political party the p y d uncorrect considers that party to be an offshoot of a kurdish separatist group into and the turkish court has charged muslim with sedition this man is on turkey's most wanted list and president heir to want is willing to pay up to get him a million dollar reward was offered for sale a muslim's capture and he was arrested in prague at the request of turkish interpol whose name is the former leader of the p y d and ankara says this party is the syrian offshoot of the p.k. k. which has waged an insurgency on turkish soil for decades turkey has banned the kurdish group as a terrorist organization or to one is now hoping for muslims extradition. they broke up the religious community they told this nation apart. that's why we are fighting these terrorists otherwise we do not have a problem with our kurdish brothers. our problem is with terrorists. muslim was wanted in connection with a two thousand a

a turkish court but six turkish journalists are sentenced to life we look at the country as ongoing assault on free speech i'm sara kelly in berlin this is the day . format. for you me i didn't say you'd like many others that i'm not the he's out of jail on the side beach so he sure is there talking isn't completely useless isn't it to do this in those days when you know that there are other perhaps not sort of prominent cases of people who are in turkish prisons and we have the daily proceedings will be dealt with quickly and according to the rule of law. one man gets out of jail six others get life sentences freedom of the press is under fire in turkey on friday one of the country's most prominent details be german turkish journalist dennis you cho was released after a year of being held in a turkish jail without charge he had germany's top diplomats campaigning heavily for him including the german chancellor who met with turkey's prime minister on thursday but celebration is tempered by the reality that on the very same day six other journalists were sentenced to life in prison as part o

child has been freed after a year in a turkish prison but on the same day six turkish journalist and a newspaper employees have been jailed for life for their alleged involvement in the failed coup in twenty sixteen as for you tell you now faces charges of spreading terrorist propaganda in turkey for the time being however he is free. dennis you joe's last minute some turkish soil before boarding a plane back to germany freedom at last after one year in jail earlier

well then turkish troops would not only be fighting syrian kurdish fighters in the north and syria but also pro regime troops that means the whole military operation will get more tough it will get more risky and more complicated and this is certainly not what i'm korea officially announced when it started operation all of brian's show one months ago so for turkey there is a lot at stake and you have to know that there are so many local and international players on the ground in syria trying to carve out their own steers of influence so an already very unpredictable situation is likely to get even more unpredictable and turkey is of course planning that's what they announce over and over again to first capture the enclave of afrin and then actually move further north towards the larger kurdish controlled area of money but if they would have to fight syrian regime forces at this of course would get much more complicated and definitely much more complicated really do the kurds have any viable options has turkey basically pushed them into the arms of assad because what's in it for them fo

it is very likely the turkish president is behind the decision. yucel may have been released from jail, but turkish prosecutors have demanded up to 18 years' imprisonment. sarah: for more let's bring in our correspondent oliver who is standing by with the latest from berlin where we know deniz yucel is set to arrive back in germany even as early as today. tell us. his case has strained ties between germany and turkey. what might this mean for those relations? oliver: of course if you look at it at first glance, this is a major improvement for german-turkish relations. we should not forget he was held in custody for a year. there was no trial. there was no accusation officially until this point, and it came as a major, big surprise that he was released that quickly, just yesterday. the per turkish prime minister met angela merkel here in berlin, and merkel stressed housetrained the relations really are -- how strained this relations really are. and then a day later they did set him free. this came as a big surprise here in germany, although the sig

during a visit to jordan the turkish foreign minister said a deal wouldn't affect his country's resolve. to my kitchen or my solemn duty if the syrian regime really does enter x. raying to cleanse kurdish militia then there's no problem however if it comes in to protect them then nothing and nobody can deter and stop the turkish army it's very clear operation olive branch and affray names to cleanse these areas from terrorists and if it is that it will go your. turkey is keen to avoid a kurdish stronghold in itself border with syria so its own forces launched a major military offensive into a frame last month in a bid to expel the kurdish fighters that control the region the offensive has further complicated an already but will during web of alliances and rivalries in syria. and to help explain the fallout of a possible deal between the syrian kurds and assad i have with me here in the studio middle east analyst daniel baer lucky is also the editor in chief of zenith magazine and daniel thank you so much for joining us this evening thank you as we just heard we have this report basicall

twentieth a turkish military operation to clear the border region of terrorists as they're described by i do want to bring the syrian land back to syrian people and recently stated that what's our friend is liberating the turkish army will go further take a listen you know we're going to continue the olive branch operation until we achieve our goals and then as promised we will clear man beach of terrorists after that we will continue our struggle up to the iraqi border until no terrorists are left the turkish forces are a long way from reaching into lube or any areas truly deep inside syrian territory but what this does mean is that turkish forces in the long run could get bogged down in a quagmire against armed groups which ironically have been supplied by the united states so what's the threat there we could see things escalate further there's definitely a risk of escalation u.s. forces are present in northern syria in kurdish territory where they've been involved in those train assist the quick missions helping kurdish fighters against islamic state now and said man bridge is a c

syrian state media confirm pro-government militia will join us backed kurdish fighters to repel turkish troops in africa. and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up search crews reach the crash site of the uranian passenger plane that killed sixty five people. direct at the center of sexual misconduct accusations in haiti is being revealed about what went on. at a bronze medal winning russian curler has been charged with doping at the winter olympics. the battlefield in northern syria appears to have become more complicated syrian state television is reporting that pro-government militia will join us backed kurdish fighters in a free and they'll work together to repel a turkish offensive after a call from the kurds to help protect the region state t.v. says the forces will arrive within a matter of hours this could mean syrian forces directly confronting turkish troops who've been engaged in a. operation against kurdish fighters since last month syria's kurdish y p g has been a key u.s. ally in the fight against i support turkey is opposed to the group which it views as a terr

one of many that have further soured relations between the two countries turkish leaders have accused huge shell of terrorist propaganda while his supporters say that it is part of the turkish government's post-coup crackdown on free speech on wednesday germany's foreign minister once again called for a fair and speedy trial and the chancellor is likely to bring up the topic in a meeting with turkey's prime minister in berlin on thursday our coverage begins with this report. this maximum security prison in istanbul is where denise is being held one year after the journalist's arrest and no formal charges have been made so why the state nation it's a question for which turkish prime minister banally has a simple answer. it is not my decision to make but the courts. i hope that he will be released soon. and i'm confident there will be development soon. critics are don't feel that the judiciary will treat you case fairly. but you drams remarks have given germany renewed hope. in this time of domestic that there will be a judgment. and i hope you will be ungenerous you chose to favor we'v

this network aims to drum up support for the turkish ruling party's agenda mills. talks liberals a call to live in and i have you personally experienced intimidation or being threatened sadly yes and i think it's scandalous that elected delegates are threatened here in germany just for holding a mandate acting on this political mandate and acting on their conscience with a list of the. what the turkish government and the president himself has repeatedly and it tainted against german lawmakers just for doing their jobs. wolf with just for expressing your opinion and trying to reorient germany's foreign policy regarding turkey. as the couple to. when they receive hateful messages on your social media profiles how do you deal with that and that's what i take action if there are death threats then i report everything i will not accept this i don't accept that the internet is somehow a place where the law doesn't apply where you can just insult people. i think it's ok to have tough fact based arguments and i encourage it but there can be no insults hatred or hate speech

this network aims to drum up support for the turkish ruling party's agenda mills. talks liberals a call to live in and i have you personally experienced intimidation all being threatened. sadly yes and i think it's scandalous that elected delegates are threatened here in germany just for holding a mandate acting on this political mandate and acting on their conscience with the . war but what the turkish government and the president himself has repeatedly and to take did against german lawmakers just for doing their jobs. while it's just for expressing our opinion and trying to reorient germany's foreign policy regarding turkey. as the couple took in that you receive hateful messages on your social media profiles how do you deal with that image and a lot by take action if there are death threats then i report everything i will not accept this i don't accept that the internet is somehow a place where the law doesn't apply where you can just insult people. i think it's ok to have a tough fact based arguments and dying courage is. but there can be. no insults hatred or

defense secretary clashes with his turkish counterpart in drugs. welcome to the program i'm on the thought she. south africa has a new president he's sitting. his election comes a day off the jacob zuma finally agreed to step down after his spotty the a.n.c. give him an ultimatum to quit or to face a vote of no confidence south africa spot have been convened this morning to elect the new president the session in pretoria also some festive scenes and then this is what the chief justice said. one candidate has been nominated to men. or. polls song the nomination is an auto. accordingly in terms of item five of part eight of shade real threat to the constitution i declare. the owner montgomery ala said obama. julie elect the president of that it probably goes on. joining me now on the studio is christine one body doubles correspondent who's been closely following this story welcome christine so we're seeing the dawn of the new era in south africa bring us up to date as to what's happened in the past allan what we can expect in the next couple of days