Isis Bears Down Despite US Air Strikes And Street Clashes As İt Happened

The death toll has risen to 31 as a result of protest violence kobani,kobane,protest in Turkey amid anger over ISIL siege of Syria's Kobani town. I do not think there are lots of civilians left in the city, except the fighters, and we can see the ambulances running with casualities to the Turkish borders all the day. We can't go inside or even close to Kobani to join the fighters because of the Turkish army. Some people tried to go home through barbed wire to bring some food and blankets, but they could not reach the city under the nonstop heavy clashes. At some stage, we will need to negotiate with violent Islamic extremism, whether in this form or another one, if their ideas continue to have political support and we want to find a lasting solution to conflict in the region. They are unlikely to simply fade away. We kobani,kobane,protest need to bear in mind that such negotiations do not usually succeed at first; they have to go through many iterations, and an agreement is usually reached only when a mutually hurting stalemate exists, in which both sides realise that they cannot prevail militarily. Turkey has also yet to respond to the remarks by Staffan de Mistura, who said he feared a repeat of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia when thousands died. Kurdish leaders in Syria have asked Ankara to establish a corridor through Turkey to allow aid and military supplies to reach Kobane. Curfews are now in place, in some provinces for the first time in over two decades, and Turkish troops have been deployed. Kobani is just miles from the Syrian border with Turkey. It has become a symbolic battleground in the fight against Isis and will be an inevitable barometer of the success of the US-led aerial campaign which is helping Kurdish forces on the ground. US military have stepped up their presence in the region, with the latest release from the US military confirming five air strikes that are thought to have halted Isis advance, at least temporarily. Staffan de Mistura issued the demand for concrete action” on Tuesday, after Turkey's president declared that Kobani is on the brink of being captured. The attack has forced more than 200,000 people to flee, one of the largest single exoduses of the three-year Syrian conflict. Kurdish Peshmergas fight to regain control of the town of Celavle, in Iraq's Diyala province, on August 24. Capturing Kobani would give Isis, a direct link between its positions in the Syrian province of Aleppo and its stronghold of Raqqa, further east. It would also give the group full control of a long stretch of the Turkish-Syrian border. kobani,kobane,protest Protests across Turkey were accompanied by pro-Kurdish demonstations elsewhere, including at the European parliament in Brussels. In Cypus, a protester urged the US to hit the jihadists harder” to help Kurdish forces defend Kobani. After weeks of seeming reluctance , coalition forces stepped up the pace of air strikes around Kobani over the weekend. The Pentagon described five strikes around Kobani on Tuesday. Tensions are especially high in Turkey, where Kurds have fought a 3-decade-long battle for autonomy and where Syria's violence has taken an especially heavy toll. Thousands of civilians have fled and those remaining fear a massacre if Isis wins the battle. Sir Menzies Campbell, the former Liberal Democrat leader, said there was no legal barrier to bombing Isis in their Syrian strongholds. He told BBC2's Daily Politics there was no legal impediment” to the UK taking part kobani,kobane,protest in air strikes in Syria. Erdogan said more than 200,000 people have fled the fighting in and around Kobani in recent weeks. Their flight is among the largest single exoduses of the three-year Syrian conflict.

A senior Kurdish militant has threatened Turkey with a new Kurdish revolt if it sticks with its current policy of non-intervention in the battle for Kobane. Riot police used tear gas and water cannon in a number of towns and cities as the disturbances spread across the country, including Ankara and Istanbul. The sudden wave of unrest has taken Turkey by surprise, with protests spreading to almost 30 cities.