[AnNahar] Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
said Friday that 1,300 Free Syrian Army
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
fighters would join Kurds in defending the key Syrian border town of Kobane from an assault by Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
jihadists.
The Syrian Kurds have "accepted 1,300 people from the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and they are holding talks to determine the transit route," Erdogan told news hounds in Estonia's capital Tallinn.
"I have just been informed that the number of (Iraqi Kurdish) peshmerga (to be sent to Kobane) was reduced to 150" from a previously agreed 200, he added.
Erdogan said Thursday that 200 Iraqi Kurd peshmerga fighters would travel through Turkey to Kobane to fight jihadists from the Islamic State group.
There are an estimated 2,000 Kurdish fighters battling IS jihadists for control of Kobane.
Ankara views the PYD as the Syrian arm of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) whose three-decade armed campaign for self-rule in Turkey has left 40,000 people dead.
Erdogan on Thursday dubbed the PYD a "terrorist organization".
"As you know, in our talks with (U.S. President Barack) Obama we had agreed that the FSA could be the first choice (for deployment in Kobane) and the second choice could be (Kurdish) peshmergas," Erdogan said Friday in Tallinn.
He has also raised the acute humanitarian crisis gripping Syria and the spillover of refugees into Turkey.
Some 200,000 Kurds have fled from Syria to Turkey to escape the onslaught on Kobane by IS jihadists.
Turkey is separately hosting over 1.5 million Syrian refugees who fled the civil war between Syrian
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Lord of the Baath...
and rebels seeking his ouster.
"Where was the world when 300,000 people have been killed in Syria thus far?" Erdogan said Thursday in Riga.
| Well, Turkey was aiding and abetting ISIS with funds, rest and rejuvenation opportunities, medical treatment and possibly training, and still pronounces ISIS to be less of a danger to humanity than the |
| War, like politics, is the art of the possible, Mr. President. Why are you not interested in what is passing a mere hundred yards or so from your border crossing? |
| Ynet adds: |
The co-chair of the Syrian Kurdish PYD said on Friday that no agreement has been reached yet on the passage of Free Syrian Army
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
(FSA) fighters into the besieged border town of Kobani, contradicting comments from Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan.
"We already established connection with FSA but no such agreement has been reached yet as Mr. Erdogan has mentioned," Saleh Moslem told Rooters via phone from Brussels. He referred to the Turkish President's comments that 1,300 FSA fighters had been cleared to cross into Kobani.