hile the United States and the West see the Islamic State militants battling Kurds for Kobane as enemy number one, Turkey is equally worried about the risks to its security from separatist Kurdish groups.
In an op-ed for the Turkish newspaper Today's Zaman, Suat Kiniklioglu, director of STRATIM, an Ankara-based foreign policy think tank, argued that Turkey's leaders had badly miscalculated by seeking to oppose Kobane's defenders at a time when the town's plight was receiving global attention. Patience in Washington has run out with Ankara's short-sighted policy of strangling the Kobane Kurds into submission,” he wrote.
Halabja was known as a secular village and the home of Abdullah Goran, one of the best-known Kurdish poets in the 20th century and a member of the Iraqi Communist Party. But in the past three decades, Muslim preachers have become active and have turned it into one of Iraqi Kurdistan's most religiously conservative areas. fighters to reinforce the town, after Ankara agreed earlier in the week that it would open a conduit for that purpose.
It is the second video he has featured in since the death of his father Paul Cantlie , 80, who died from complications following pneumonia last week. Dressed all in black, Cantlie said: "Now kobane news is coming to an end. The mujahideen are just mopping up now, street to street, and building to building. You can occasionally hear erratic gunfire in the background as a result of those operations.
It starts with a beautifully framed telephoto shot of Islamic State fighters standing on the crest of Tel Sheir, a hill to the west of town. There's the dreaded black IS flag flying on the summit, and to the right, a hooded fighter who seems to be talking to several other IS men who are walking uphill toward him. A sustained bombardment by ISIS rained down, particularly on the eastern side of Kobani, perhaps the heaviest seen in days.
The Kurdistan Workers' Party announced general mobilization to defend Kobane on Friday, as the city was under heavy shelling from IS, the Lebanese Al-Mayadeen TV channel reported. It also said that kobane news IS fighters claimed the southern and eastern approaches to the city. On Saturday morning peshmerga fighters told Kurdish media that they had not yet been deployed at the frontlines by the YPG.
On Sunday the White House said President Barack Obama called his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan and they pledged to "strengthen cooperation" in Syria. The US and Western allies have pressed Turkey to kobane news take a more direct role against fighters in Kobane, but Ankara is reluctant to arm Kurds and intervene militarily, fearing the creation of an effective fighting force from its historic foes on its border.
Sheik Naim al-Kuoud al-Nimrawi, a leader of Albu Nimr, said that 381 tribal members had been killed since October Sheikh also said that they had called on the Government for weapons to defend themselves and passed on co-ordinates for airstrikes - but had only received promises. Having crossed the Turkish border on Friday night with their heavy weapons, the Peshmerga took part in the fighting against the Islamic State (IS) on Saturday evening.
But that was a very minor theatre of the propaganda war, involving a few elderly folk. The real PR war being fought on YouTube and Twitter and Instagram is a struggle for a much younger, fiercer, and mostly non-American audience. Keep in mind that until October 7, the US was apparently minimizing strikes near Kobane to keep Erdogan's Turkish Islamists happy, an insane Hit'em, but lightly” policy that changed radically after that first week of October.
It was the fear of a PKK-dominated Kurdish statelet in Syria that propelled Turkey to resume peace talks with Ocalan in 2012 in the hope that he would keep the Syrian Kurds' aspirations in check. The plan doesn't kobane news seem to have worked. The peace process began because of Syria's Kurds,” recalls Arzu Yilmaz, a scholar of Kurdish affairs at Ankara University. And it is because of them that it will unravel,” she concludes.
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Halabja was known as a secular village and the home of Abdullah Goran, one of the best-known Kurdish poets in the 20th century and a member of the Iraqi Communist Party. But in the past three decades, Muslim preachers have become active and have turned it into one of Iraqi Kurdistan's most religiously conservative areas. fighters to reinforce the town, after Ankara agreed earlier in the week that it would open a conduit for that purpose.
It is the second video he has featured in since the death of his father Paul Cantlie , 80, who died from complications following pneumonia last week. Dressed all in black, Cantlie said: "Now kobane news is coming to an end. The mujahideen are just mopping up now, street to street, and building to building. You can occasionally hear erratic gunfire in the background as a result of those operations.
It starts with a beautifully framed telephoto shot of Islamic State fighters standing on the crest of Tel Sheir, a hill to the west of town. There's the dreaded black IS flag flying on the summit, and to the right, a hooded fighter who seems to be talking to several other IS men who are walking uphill toward him. A sustained bombardment by ISIS rained down, particularly on the eastern side of Kobani, perhaps the heaviest seen in days.
The Kurdistan Workers' Party announced general mobilization to defend Kobane on Friday, as the city was under heavy shelling from IS, the Lebanese Al-Mayadeen TV channel reported. It also said that kobane news IS fighters claimed the southern and eastern approaches to the city. On Saturday morning peshmerga fighters told Kurdish media that they had not yet been deployed at the frontlines by the YPG.
On Sunday the White House said President Barack Obama called his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan and they pledged to "strengthen cooperation" in Syria. The US and Western allies have pressed Turkey to kobane news take a more direct role against fighters in Kobane, but Ankara is reluctant to arm Kurds and intervene militarily, fearing the creation of an effective fighting force from its historic foes on its border.
Sheik Naim al-Kuoud al-Nimrawi, a leader of Albu Nimr, said that 381 tribal members had been killed since October Sheikh also said that they had called on the Government for weapons to defend themselves and passed on co-ordinates for airstrikes - but had only received promises. Having crossed the Turkish border on Friday night with their heavy weapons, the Peshmerga took part in the fighting against the Islamic State (IS) on Saturday evening.
But that was a very minor theatre of the propaganda war, involving a few elderly folk. The real PR war being fought on YouTube and Twitter and Instagram is a struggle for a much younger, fiercer, and mostly non-American audience. Keep in mind that until October 7, the US was apparently minimizing strikes near Kobane to keep Erdogan's Turkish Islamists happy, an insane Hit'em, but lightly” policy that changed radically after that first week of October.
It was the fear of a PKK-dominated Kurdish statelet in Syria that propelled Turkey to resume peace talks with Ocalan in 2012 in the hope that he would keep the Syrian Kurds' aspirations in check. The plan doesn't kobane news seem to have worked. The peace process began because of Syria's Kurds,” recalls Arzu Yilmaz, a scholar of Kurdish affairs at Ankara University. And it is because of them that it will unravel,” she concludes.
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