Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. Hello and this week we hear from Mesa

Gifford on Turkey's attacks on the Kurds. Sean Collins looks at Trump a year on from his inauguration, and Andrew Doyle and Andy Shaw tell me about their

new comedy club which gives two fingers to censorship. Last week Turkey launched attacks on Kurds in Afrin and region in Syria.

Why? Well, it claimed that Kurdish terrorists were attacking Turkey.

This claim was not true.

Turkey is continuing to attack this part of Syria and perhaps not so surprisingly

there hasn't been a great deal of outcry from Western powers.

It seems that the US and the UK were perfectly happy with the Kurds when they were winning the fight against ISIS,

but won't defend them against these horrific attacks from Turkey. What is going on? Why have we abandoned the Kurds? Well, in order to try and get a handle on this, I spoke to Mesa Gifford, the well-known Brit who has been working and fighting with the Kurds for years. Here's what he had to say.

Well, first of all, Mesa, can you start by explaining to us exactly what is happening in

Afrin?

Well, Afrin is a canton in northwestern Syria. It's actually a very safe space. The war now, the Civil War,

has dragged on for a very long time. The Kurds there liberated themselves a long time ago.

They have been fighting a lot against Al-Nusura and other sort of extremist groups within the

FSA as well. But largely the war has untouched this entire region and in fact its population is doubled because of that

because a lot of refugees from other part of the country have fled there.

Unfortunately, Turkey, which has always had an agenda in Syria, it's always been funding different groups to bring down the Assad government.

It's always trying to interfere to try and limit the rise of the YPG.

It's got eyes on Afroin now for two reasons. One, it wants to limit the rise of the

IPG. It wants to damage them and restrict their ability to sort of move arms and

money and to sort of trade with the rest of the country. But more than that, they actually want to connect the

region that they took last year with their own proxy forces around Al-Bab and Dralibis with the other FSA regions south of Afrin.

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