From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

Brooke Gladstone is out this week.

I'm Bob Garfield.

On Thursday, barely a week after Turkish forces began to bombard Kurds in Syria,

after a go-head and then a weird-about face from the American president,

and after condemnation from the global community,

Turkey at least agreed to temporarily relent.

The Turkish side will pause Operation Peace Spring

in order to allow for the withdrawal of YPG forces from the safe zone for 120 hours.

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic forces, who were our allies and the deadly struggle to

route ISIS from the region, have been given five days to abandon portions of what locals

call Rojova, a semi-autonomous Kurdish state within a state. Though on Friday, journalists and

SDF officials reported that shelling and gunfire continue. And so many Kurdish civilians have already

fled Rojova, fearing the worst. Just a few bags of essentials where all this family could carry

as they ran from the fighting in northeastern Syria.

There was shelling and fighting, this man says.

My family hasn't slept for four days.

We've left everything behind.

Last weekend, mere days into the Turkish operation,

members of the press were also forced to evacuate.

Among them was NPR international correspondent Daniel Estrin, whose team only a day before had gotten the network's

approval to report from within Rojova. Daniel, welcome to Oteam. Thanks for having me. We're speaking to

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