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Syrian Expert Warns:

Kobani Fall Tantamount to Angry Kurdish Protests in Turkey

Syrian military experts strongly criticized the policies pursued by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan towards Syria's developments, warning that if the Kurdish city of Kobani falls into the Turkish-assisted ISIL terrorist group, Ankara will face an angry backlash from the Kurdish people.
News ID: 61189
Publish Date: 06November 2014 - 13:00

Kobani Fall Tantamount to Angry Kurdish Protests in Turkey

"If Kobani falls, Turkey will be inflamed by Kurdish protests, those Kurds who had shaken the pillars of Erdogan government," Retired Brigadier General of the Syrian Army Ali Maqssoud told FNA on Wednesday.

He noted that following the defeat of terrorists in Syria, Turkey has become an strategic ally of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Iraq as Washington favors Kobani to fall in a bid to make the Turkish troops enter Syria for the purpose of military intervention.

"The representatives of the intelligence services of Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the US met with Syrian Kurdish leaders Salih Moselm and Soleiman Darvish in the presence of some leaders from Turkey and during that meeting they asked Moslim, who is the leader of Syria's Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), to lend the Free Syrian Army some Kurdish fighters to help FSA in its fight against the Syrian government, but Moslim rejected the demand," he added.

"Erdogan has recently bowed to the ISIL's advances and he is worried about an ISIL coup against Turkey despite the fact that Ankara has always backed the terrorist group since its establishment," the General said, and added, "Erdogan suspects that ISIL might go unleashed and embark on military operations in Turkey to stage a coup or for some other purposes and it is for the same reason that Erdogan was eventually forced to accept the flow of Peshmarga, Kurdish and FSA forces in Kobani via Turkey."

Last week, tens of thousands of Kurds rallied in Turkish cities in solidarity with Kobani, which has been under a brutal siege by the ISIL terrorist group.

In Diyarbakir, in the heart of the Kurdish region in Turkey's Southeast, protesters marched peacefully, chanting, "Long live the struggle for Kobani", AP reported.

The assault on Kobani has largely emptied the city that was once home to hundreds of thousands.

In villages along Turkey's border with Syria Kurds, including refugees from Kobani, marched within eyeshot of their former home.

One demonstrator, Fatima Muslim said, "I came to show my support for my people and for the blood of our people".

The 55-year-old added, "We've lost everything. They blew up our houses. And now we are in a refugee camp."

 

Source: Fars

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