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Turkish security forces have used tear gas and water cannon to disperse Kurds who had gathered in support of Kurdish refugees fleeing attacks in Syria, and those battling ISIL fighters on Syrian soil.
Hundreds of young demonstrators fought back on Sunday by hurling rocks and setting up barricades on the road leading to a nearby border crossing, the AFP news agency said. At one point the border was sealed.
The security forces kept demonstrators away from a barbed-wire border fence just 5km from Ain al-Arab, known to the Kurds as Kobani, where Kurdish fighters are battling ISIL.
"We've come to support our brothers in Syria under attack by ISIL," demonstrator Mehmet Eminakma told AFP.
Mehment said that Turkish authorities were preventing young Syrian Kurd refugees from returning to the battlefront.
ISIL fighters have captured dozens of villages along the Syrian borders, threatening the largely-Kurdish inhabitants of the northern Kobani area.
The Kurdistan Workers' Party, or the PKK, renewed its call for arms as Kobani came under fierce attack by ISIL for the fourth day in a row. One Kurdish commander said ISIL was within 15km of Kobani.
"Supporting this heroic resistance is not only a debt of honour for the Kurds, but for all of the Middle East people. Just giving support is not enough. ISIL must drown in the blood it spills. The youth of North Kurdistan must flow in waves to Kobani," the party said in a statement.
Ibrahim Binici, a politician for Turkey's pro-Kurdish HDP, told the Reuters news agency that he had been told by locals that ISIL fighters were beheading people as they went from village to village.
"Rather than a war this is a genocide operation," he said.
Carol Batchelor, the UNHCR's representative in Turkey, told Al Jazeera that the flood of Syrian Kurdish refugees to Turkey over the past day had been the "largest since the Syrian crisis erupted".
Batchelor said that the ferocity of the fighting and the fast-moving situation near Kobani made any cross-border aid efforts impossible, meaning there was no option other than to keep the Turkish border open.
"We need to be able to say to the Syrian people, and to the host communities who have been helping them for three-and-a-half years, that they have solidarity and their humanitarian life-saving needs will be met."
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/09/turkish-forces-fend-off-kurdish-protesters-201492113318392639.html
21/9/14
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Turkish security forces have used tear gas and water cannon to disperse Kurds who had gathered in support of Kurdish refugees fleeing attacks in Syria, and those battling ISIL fighters on Syrian soil.
Hundreds of young demonstrators fought back on Sunday by hurling rocks and setting up barricades on the road leading to a nearby border crossing, the AFP news agency said. At one point the border was sealed.
The security forces kept demonstrators away from a barbed-wire border fence just 5km from Ain al-Arab, known to the Kurds as Kobani, where Kurdish fighters are battling ISIL.
"We've come to support our brothers in Syria under attack by ISIL," demonstrator Mehmet Eminakma told AFP.
Mehment said that Turkish authorities were preventing young Syrian Kurd refugees from returning to the battlefront.
ISIL fighters have captured dozens of villages along the Syrian borders, threatening the largely-Kurdish inhabitants of the northern Kobani area.
The Kurdistan Workers' Party, or the PKK, renewed its call for arms as Kobani came under fierce attack by ISIL for the fourth day in a row. One Kurdish commander said ISIL was within 15km of Kobani.
"Supporting this heroic resistance is not only a debt of honour for the Kurds, but for all of the Middle East people. Just giving support is not enough. ISIL must drown in the blood it spills. The youth of North Kurdistan must flow in waves to Kobani," the party said in a statement.
Ibrahim Binici, a politician for Turkey's pro-Kurdish HDP, told the Reuters news agency that he had been told by locals that ISIL fighters were beheading people as they went from village to village.
"Rather than a war this is a genocide operation," he said.
Carol Batchelor, the UNHCR's representative in Turkey, told Al Jazeera that the flood of Syrian Kurdish refugees to Turkey over the past day had been the "largest since the Syrian crisis erupted".
Batchelor said that the ferocity of the fighting and the fast-moving situation near Kobani made any cross-border aid efforts impossible, meaning there was no option other than to keep the Turkish border open.
"We need to be able to say to the Syrian people, and to the host communities who have been helping them for three-and-a-half years, that they have solidarity and their humanitarian life-saving needs will be met."
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/09/turkish-forces-fend-off-kurdish-protesters-201492113318392639.html
21/9/14
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