15 Kasım 2014 Cumartesi
Death Toll From Kobani Protests İn Turkey Rises To 25
Protesters marched through the streets of several major European cities today in an orchestrated show of support for besieged Kurdish fighters currently battling Islamic State (ISIS) forces in Kobane.
Beyond Turkey, a number of people were hurt when clashes broke out in the German city of Hamburg after hundreds of Kurdish demonstrators in Hamburg held a rally against IS militants. Some 400 Kurdish protesters fought with a similar number of radical Muslims, police told German media. Demonstrators, some carrying knives and knuckle-dusters, were eventually separated by police firing water cannon. Erdogan called for a no-fly zone, and for the arming of opposition groups in Iraq and Syria.
The main Kurdish armed group, the YPG, said in a statement the air strikes had inflicted heavy losses on ISIS, but had been less effective in the last two days. A Kurdish military official, speaking from Kobane, said street-to-street fighting was making it harder for the warplanes to target ISIS positions. The Kobane crisis has sparked deadly violence in Turkey, which has a Kurdish population numbering 15million.
I could not stay in Kobani and wait for Isis to come and slaughter our men and kidnap our women. Also, we could not trust the capabilities of the Kurdish fighters in Kobani to stop Isis militants' progress kobani,kobane,protest towards the town. We and tens of Kobani families had to walk through a route full of mines near the borders to get into Turkey. A few people were killed and injured as they stepped on these mines at night.
The Kurdish forces are now believed to face inevitable defeat in Kobane if Turkey does not open its border to let through arms - something Ankara has so far appeared reluctant to do. The U.S.-led coalition escalated kobani,kobane,protest air strikes on ISIS in and around Kobane, also known as Ayn al-Arab, some four days ago. They are unhappy at what they see as Turkish support for Islamic State (IS) militants attacking the border town of Kobane.
Here comes America's war on Syria. Soon the British will be pushing this narrative. They take us for idiots. That they can lie to us that blatantly shows how much respect they have for us. A resident of Kobani who escaped to Turkey kobani,kobane,protest told the Guardian on Tuesday that Kurdish fighters there have the upper hand against Isis. Syrian President Bashar Assad has four secret chemical weapons facilities and used them as recently as August, according to a UN briefing.
A Turkish Kurd, standing in the outskirts of Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border, use binoculars to watch the fighting between militants of the Islamic State group and Kurdish forces in Kobani, Syria, Monday, Oct. 6, 2014. Turkey's reluctance to join the fight against Isis militants to defend the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani has fuelled violent protests across the country resulting in at least nine deaths.
The Turkish parliament last week authorised the government to take military action against Isis. But Turkey has not announced plans for any operations, with Ankara apparently seeking a commitment kobani,kobane,protest from the west to move decisively against the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, as well as the jihadis. Erdoğan said he wanted to fight both Isis and the Kurdistan Workers' party (PKK).
Five people were killed in Diyarbakir, the largest Kurdish city in the southeast, while a 25-year-old man died in Varto, a town in the eastern province of Mus. Turkey's Interior Minister Efkan Ala called for an end to the protests. Violence is not the solution. Violence triggers reprisals. This irrational attitude should come to an end immediately,” he said. In London protesters bearing placards and flags were marshalled by police as they marched on Parliament Square, Westminster.
A 25-year-old man died in Varto, a town in the eastern province of Mus, and at least half a dozen people were wounded there in clashes between police and protesters, local media reported. Two people died in southeastern Siirt province, the governor was quoted as saying by CNN Turk Television, and another died in neighbouring Batman. Curfews were imposed in five predominantly Kurdish southeastern provinces after the protests, in which shops and banks were damaged.
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