Television
Jul 28, 2015
Mike Barnicle on Turkey’s complicated role in the Middle East

Morning Joe’s Mike Barnicle, the Council on Foreign Relations’ Richard N. Haass, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Thomas Sanderson discuss Turkey’s complicated role in the Middle East and its fight against both ISIS and the U.S.-allied Kurds. “The Turks are finally going to get involved. And whether it’s a down-move or an up-move for us in the long run, is it not, today, perhaps the only move the United States can help in making? ,” asks Mike Barnicle of CSIS’s Sanderson about the U.S. and Turkey’s agreement to create an ‘ISIL-free zone’ in Syria. Listen to Sanderson’s answer and the conversation on Turkey’s increasingly entangled participation in the conflict. Only on MSNBC.