Reuters points out that the issue of Turkish support has a special importance after the outbreak of hostilities in the region of the Syrian city of Koban, located near the border with Turkey and desperately defended by the Kurds against the jihadists IS.
Yesterday adviser for. national security President Barack Obama, Lisa Monaco, met with the head Turkish intelligence Hakan Fidan.
In a communication published by the White House stated that Monaco “expressed appreciation for the support Turkey’s military operations in Syria, the United States and Iraq and stressed the importance of speeding up such support within the strategy of weakening and eventual destruction of IS “.
Meanwhile, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned yesterday that neither the Kurds protest or criticism from the opposition will not affect its stance on intervention military in Syria. Makes it the fulfillment of its conditions, mainly on the establishment in Syria no-fly zone, as well as the separation of the territory of the Syrian security zone in which to put the Syrian refugees, and the adoption of a program of training and equipping the local militia Syrian weapons.
UN appeal for Turkey: culvert across the border help for Koban!
UN yesterday asked the public to Turkey to let the Kurdish armed militants hurrying to help city Koban, obleganemu by the jihadists of the Islamic State, cross the Turkish-Syrian border.
– We want to ask the Turkish authorities that allowed the entrance to the city volunteers with guns, so they can help in self-defense – said in Geneva, the UN special envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura.
De Mistura urged Turkey to the time when defender Koban control one last “corridor” linking the city with about a mile distant Turkish border, is able to reach help and “supported from its territory by any means action international coalition “to halt the offensive Islamic State in Syria.
– If we do cancel, including Turkey , action at the present time, we will be very sorry that we have lost the opportunity to stop the march of the Islamic State and the signal that this can not be longer – said at a press conference de Mistura.
UN special envoy warned that the inevitable collapse in this situation Koban, Kurdish enclave lying near the border with Turkey, it may be a prelude to the massacre of thousands of civilians and the takeover by the Islamic State control over 400 kilometers of common border Turkish-Syrian (the whole border has 900 km).
In the recently hundred thousand Koban in addition to defending the city of Kurdish militants remains only 500 to 700 residents. These are mostly old men and women, but the 12 000 people who left the city at the latest, still wandering in Syria, unable to cross the border. UN envoy asking the Turkish government warned that threatens their death at the hands of jihadists.
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White House Calls on Turkey to help in the fight with you … – Onet.pl
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