In a new video published today, British journalist John Cantlie, who is being held hostage by the Islamic State after being kidnapped in Syria in 2012, appears kobane news to be reporting from the city of Kobane on the Syrian-Turkish border, which has been the stage of an ongoing battle between the militants and Kurdish forces.
Last year Barzani the conservative leader of Iraqi Kurdistan called for the unification of all Kurdish people in one single country,” one man adds. But the PKK disagrees with this plan, because such a state will eventually be no different from the Turkish Republic. Greenhill adds that a teacher from Kobane claimed he heard two fighters in the city who were bragging about their British heritage.
The peshmerga is neither related to the PKK, nor an ally of the Assad regime, so it seems like a very good method for Turkey to help Kobane without supporting the separatists,” he said. And President Erdoğan poured more fuel on the fire Monday. In a speech in Istanbul, he rehashed familiar charges that the PKK sets fires to bulldozers and threatens contractors working on public works projects in the predominately Kurdish southeast.
The Kurdistan Regional Government, which runs a semi-autonomous region in northern Iraq, has made clear from the outset that its peshmerga fighters, numbering around 150, would not engage in direct combat in Kobane but rather provide artillery support to Syrian Kurds. ISIL has made no secret of the fact that they want that town… and so they have continued to flow fighters to Kobane,” he added.
Kurds are particularly skeptical of Turkey's willingness to fight ISIS. Turkey's Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the YPG have separately accused the government of supplying weapons to the militants. The Western Front of the propaganda war over Kobane was officially won on October 28, 2014, when the New York Times opened its editorial pages to the woman in charge of the YPG in the town.
Having only recently established the cantons, Kurds are eager to defend their land. Many YPG fighters brought their families to safety at the border and then returned to the frontlines. At least 150,000 Kurdish refugees have fled to Turkey in the last week. Thousands of refugees remained in Turkey's border town Suruc, where they were able to watch and sometimes even hear their compatriots defending their homeland from ISIS militants.
The betrayal of the people of Kobane is symptomatic for the situation in the World. The kurds have been betrayed by the colonial powers like USA and UK for more than 50 years. Now it is Islamic Turkey who overlook the slaughter of the kurds at their border with Syria, and do not lift a finger. The YPG have been holding out for weeks against ISIL's offensive, backed by dozens of US-led air strikes against ISIL positions.
An Islamic State fighter sits at a checkpoint used by Kurdish fighters in al-Jurn village in the countryside of the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani, after Islamic State fighters took control of the area, Oct. 7, 2014. U.S.-led air strikes on Wednesday pushed Islamic State fighters back to the edges of the Syrian Kurdish border town of Kobani, which they had appeared set to seize after a three-week assault, Kurdish officials in the town said.
The night before, there had been heavy bombardment of ISIS positions, and the windows of the village had shaken all night from the impact. It was the most fighting in over a week, people claimed. Everyone was worried as news of an ISIS offensive to take Murşitpınar border reached us. They ISIS must have brought reinforcements from Raqqa. Why can't we YPG have some reinforcements”, one villager told me as we stood in a long line watching Kobane from the edge of the village.
However, the YPG report pm Wednesday, that they conducted operations up to 20 kilometres to the east of Kobane and destroyed 2 x IS vehicles and a motorcycle and killed 11 Jihadists. On the southern front the YPG kobane news destroyed an IS vehicle on the Aleppo road and killed another 2 Jihadists. And on the western front an all night battle ended this morning with an IS heavy machine gun being destroyed and 6 Jihadists killed.
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The betrayal of the people of Kobane is symptomatic for the situation in the World. The kurds have been betrayed by the colonial powers like USA and UK for more than 50 years. Now it is Islamic Turkey who overlook the slaughter of the kurds at their border with Syria, and do not lift a finger. The YPG have been holding out for weeks against ISIL's offensive, backed by dozens of US-led air strikes against ISIL positions.
An Islamic State fighter sits at a checkpoint used by Kurdish fighters in al-Jurn village in the countryside of the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani, after Islamic State fighters took control of the area, Oct. 7, 2014. U.S.-led air strikes on Wednesday pushed Islamic State fighters back to the edges of the Syrian Kurdish border town of Kobani, which they had appeared set to seize after a three-week assault, Kurdish officials in the town said.
The night before, there had been heavy bombardment of ISIS positions, and the windows of the village had shaken all night from the impact. It was the most fighting in over a week, people claimed. Everyone was worried as news of an ISIS offensive to take Murşitpınar border reached us. They ISIS must have brought reinforcements from Raqqa. Why can't we YPG have some reinforcements”, one villager told me as we stood in a long line watching Kobane from the edge of the village.
However, the YPG report pm Wednesday, that they conducted operations up to 20 kilometres to the east of Kobane and destroyed 2 x IS vehicles and a motorcycle and killed 11 Jihadists. On the southern front the YPG kobane news destroyed an IS vehicle on the Aleppo road and killed another 2 Jihadists. And on the western front an all night battle ended this morning with an IS heavy machine gun being destroyed and 6 Jihadists killed.
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