Breaking news tonight out of Turkey, a travel warning for Americans and an order for family members of U.S. consulate employees in Istanbul to leave.
HARLOW: Breaking news tonight out of Turkey, a travel warning for Americans and an order for family members of U.S. consulate employees in Istanbul to leave. Our senior international corporate Ivan Watson is on the phone. Ivan, when you think about the strategic importance of Turkey in the fight against ISIS you think about it as one of the largest majority Muslim democracies in the world and a key U.S. ally. How significant is this news?</s>IVAN WATSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (on the phone): Well, I think there have been a succession of increasingly concerned messages of warning coming from the U.S. state department to American citizens visiting Turkey, as well as to diplomatic staff warning about the threat of potential terror attacks of kidnappings. And Turkey has been much more volatile, much more unstable within the last year or two and it really has been in decades. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time that I can recall that the families of diplomats stationed here in the commercial capitol Istanbul which has long been a major tourist destination, that they are being ordered too home because of these concerns. But over the course, again, of the last week and more, there have been a lot of warnings from the U.S. state department about avoiding the southeast of Turkey which is bordering with Iraq and Syria where there's a Kurdish insurgency, and where there are also affected by these attacks. And Istanbul itself has been hit multiple times this year by suspected ISIS attackers - Poppy.</s>HARLOW: Ivan, thank you very much for the reporting, of course, on the phone from Istanbul. We got much more with Ivan coming up here.