16 Kasım 2014 Pazar
Kurdish Protests Leave 14 Dead As Isis Push For Kobani
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Fighting between Isis fighters and Kurdish militia in the Syrian border town of Kobani has spread to new areas in the south and west. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and an activist from the town also reported new air strikes by a US-led coalition on the edges of the town overnight. Such is the desperation to defend the town that a Kurdish female fighter blew herself up during fighting on Sunday to kill 10 jihadists.
The activists are demanding more help for the besieged Kurdish forces struggling to hold onto the Syrian town of Kobani. Some European countries are arming the Kurds , and the American-led coalition is carrying out airstrikes against the Islamic extremists, but protesters say it isn't enough. A demonstrator in Cyprus urged the coalition to hit the jihadists harder” so that Kurdish forces can hold the town.
It was too hard to get a flat in Orfa town for $2,000 a year, 30km from the Turkish borders. Lots of Kobani refugees are hanging on in parks and roads now for lack of money. My brothers decided to stay at home to protect our house and fight with the PKK but they were ordered to leave last week as they are civilians who lack military training. The Washington Post's Erin Cunnigham writes that Isis are using water as a weapon , cutting off supplies to villages resisting the group.
Isis has shown much aptitude in the use of social media to spread its message. It has now issued 11 rules for journalists covering the group. The first injunction is to swear allegiance to the caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Here is the list in full. France said everything needed to be done to stop Isis' advance on Kobani and that it was discussing with Turkey what action was necessary.
If Kobani does fall, Turkey is likely to face a massive backlash from its Kurdish population. Thousands of people have already arrived on the border from all over the country to offer their support. If they take Kobani, we know they kobani,kobane,protest will come to Suruc,” said Ibrahim Akkus, watching from the nearby hillside on Tuesday. Isis now controls large parts of both Syria and Iraq and has ramped up its offensive in recent days despite being targeted by US-led air strikes.
On Tuesday morning, occasional gunfire could be heard in Kobani. A flag of the main Kurdish force known as the People's Protection Units, or YPG, was seen flying over a hill in central Kobani. Turkey has long suspected the YPG is linked to the Kurdish PKK, which waged a long and bloody insurgency against Ankara, while the Syrian opposition has accused the group of conspiring with Assad, charges the YPG denies.
Kobani, my home town, has been under a tough military siege by Isis for the last two years. Most of life's basic requirements were lacking as the all the town's routes were blocked. I had to quit my studies in Aleppo kobani,kobane,protest because of the difficulty in getting in and out of Kobani. Though my father is a lawyer, he was hardly able to cope with the expenses of my other four brothers with the slump in the economy and the loss of jobs.
The toll included eight deaths in the eastern city of Diyarbakir, the Dogan news agency said. One man was reported to have been killed by a bullet to the head in Varto in the eastern province of Mus when police allegedly fired live ammunition. kobani,kobane,protest On the Turkish side of the border, journalists heard the sound of warplanes before two large plumes of smoke billowed west of Kobani. But the air attacks appear to have done little to slow Isis. The BBC reported eight strikes in total.
In recent months Kurds in northern Iraq have defended, and in some instances successfully retaken, cities along the Iraq border from the jihadists. However, it is their attempts to halt the ISIS takeover of Kobane, in Syria, which kobani,kobane,protest triggered today's demonstrations. A similar demonstration took place in Paris, with thousands marching through the city to try and force a French Government commitment to help the Kurds and pile pressure on the Turkish Government.
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