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| The Grand Turk | |||
| Turkey supports Free Syrian Army, Peshmerga | |||
| 2014-10-26 | |||
| Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu reiterated his country's support for the Free Syrian Army and the Iraqi Peshmerga fighting the Islamic State at Kobani, Anadolu Agency reported. Cavusoglu said Free Syrian Army is the only armed group in the region which fights for all Syrians, unlike the Democratic Union Party and IS. "PYD and IS both have the goal of controlling a specific part of Syria and seizing the region's rich resources," Cavusoglu said.
"We want legitimate powers to control the area and fight against IS, therefore we can support the Free Syrian Army and peshmerga," the foreign minister said. "The peshmerga is the security force of Iraq Kurdish Regional Government, established by the constitution of Iraq." About 1.5 million refugees have fled the Syria conflict into Turkey. About 180,000 of these Syrians came recently from the Syrian border town of Kobani, which has been under a relentless attack by IS since mid-September. "Kobani is strategic for us, because it is near our border," said Cavusoglu. "We have provided information to U.S. President Barack Obama, to Secretary of State John Kerry, and to our friends in Britain and the EU about IS's acitivites since October 2013, when Turkey acknowledged IS as a terrorist group." However, Cavusoglu said, there is no real strategy and consistency about the developments in the region; IS cannot be stopped with airstrikes.
"People who voted against the parliamentary motion authorizing the use of force against IS are now blocking the solution process," he added. | |||
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #1 What exactly does this mean? Prayers in the mosques for the downfall of both ISIS and the Peshmerga? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-10-26 09:27 |