Turkish Hostages Freed - 66,000 Kurds Flee Into Turkey - Turkish Kurds Join Battle Against ISIS

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Channel: Wrath0fKhan · 2014 · People & Blogs

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Turkish army says 4,571 PKK militants killed since July 22 (hurriyet, May 11, 2016)
http://bit.ly/1qe5YOB


Syrian Kurds warn of mounting crisis as ISIS advances, takes more villages (CNN, Sept 19, 2014)
http://cnn.it/1up6gP8

"The latest ISIS advance in Syria has brought a swath of the country's north-central Kurdish region under siege, with Kurdish leaders warning of another humanitarian crisis without international intervention.

The Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani (Ayn al-Arab in Arabic) is an island, surrounded by ISIS on three fronts and the Turkish border to the north.

The town was already mostly blockaded by ISIS, but in the past three days some 60 nearby villages fell under ISIS control, according to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...."





ISIS forces seize 60 villages (CNN, video, Sept 19, 2014)
http://cnn.it/1uNxBgr
"CNN's Barbara Starr reports that ISIS forces have taken over 60 villages in northern Syria."





Syria crisis: 66,000 'flee Islamic State' into Turkey (BBC, Sept 20, 2014)
http://bbc.in/1u9w45n

"Some 66,000 refugees - mainly Syrian Kurds - have crossed into Turkey in 24 hours, officials say, as Islamic State militants advance in northern Syria. Turkey opened its border on Friday to Syrians fleeing the Kurdish town of Kobane in fear of an IS attack.

Activists say some 300 Kurdish fighters have crossed into Syria from Turkey to help defend the strategic town. IS controls large areas of Syria and Iraq and has seized dozens of villages around Kobane, also called Ayn al-Arab.

Turkey - which shares a border with Iraq and Syria - has taken in more than 847,000 refugees since the uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad began three years ago. But the opening of the border has seen a dramatic increase in the past 24 hours...."





Kurdish fighters from Turkey join battle to save Syrian Kurdish town from ISIS (CNN, Sept 21, 2014)
http://cnn.it/1u9MTgC

"Hundreds of Kurdish fighters from Turkey have arrived in the Syrian Kurdish town of Ayn al-Arab to join a Kurdish militia group battling to hold off ISIS forces, activists said Saturday.

Clashes continue in the area between the militia, called the People's Protection Unit (YPG,) and the ISIS fighters, according the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The latest ISIS advance in Syria has brought a swath of the country's north-central Kurdish region under siege, with Kurdish leaders warning of another humanitarian crisis without international intervention.

The Syrian Kurdish town of Ayn al-Arab, or Kobani as it is known to the Kurds, is an island, surrounded by ISIS on three fronts and the Turkish border to the north.

The town was already mostly blockaded by ISIS, but in the past several days some 60 nearby villages fell under ISIS control, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...."




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