Thursday, October 23, 2014

Turkey To Permit 200 Kurdish Fighters To Enter The Fight For Kobani, But Criticizes U.S. Air Drops For Kurdish Fighters

Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan.(Reuters / Umit Bektas)

Erdogan Says 200 Iraqi Kurd Fighters To Enter Kobani Through Turkey -- Deutsche Welle

The Turkish president says an agreement has been reached on sending 200 Kurdish fighters from Iraq to the embattled Syrian town of Kobani through Turkey. It is the first involvement of Iraqi Kurds in Syria's conflict.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that Iraqi Kurdish authorities had agreed with the main Kurdish group in the Syrian border town of Kobani to send 200 peshmerga fighters through Turkey to help defend the town, which is under siege by "Islamic State" (IS) militants.

"I have learned that they finally reached agreement on a figure of 200 (fighters)," Erdogan told reporters in the Latvian capital, Riga.

The fighters will join an estimated 2,000 Syrian Kurds fighting the jihadist IS group for control of the town close to the Turkish border.

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Turkey says help coming for Kurds battling ISIS -- CBS/AP
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Turkey To Allow 200 Peshmerga Fighters Passage To Kobani -- Radio Free Europe
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Erdogan Says U.S. Arms for Kobani’s Kurd Defenders an Error -- Bloomberg
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