Turkey steps up border security to confront ISIS /VOA Exclusive: Turkish Troops Fire on Kurdish Protesters

Turkey tried to strengthen security measures along the Turkish-Syrian border so as to confront threats from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Syria by sending a dozen of military tanks to its southeastern part, private Dogan news agency reported on Friday.

A military convoy including 15 tanks on trucks started moving to the southeastern Turkey, using the Trans-European Motorway (TEM) , according to the report.


As clashes between the IS militants and Syrian Kurds continue to rage in the border town of Kobane, also known as Ayn al-Arab, northern Syria has been subject to ferocious attacks by the Sunni militants over the past three weeks.

The IS has succeeded in capturing hundreds of Kurdish villages around Kobane, forcing tens of thousands of people to flee.

Turkey has opened its doors to 200,000 people following assaults by the IS on Kobane, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, stressing that there are 130,000 (Syrian) refugees in Europe while Turkey alone hosts 1.5 million......................http://www.china.org.cn/world/2014-10/11/content_33733240.htm
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• Turkish forces have fired on Syrian Kurdish protesters from the border town of Qamishli. The protesters said they were trying to show support for fellow Kurds in the beleaguered Syrian town of Kobani. Ankara says the demonstrators provoked the violence.

On Thursday, thousands of demonstrators in Qamishli, a Syrian border town to the east, took their message into the Turkish buffer zone, a dusty, vacant no-man's-land between the two countries. An exclusive video captured by VOA's Kurdish service shows ethnic Kurds on both sides of the Turkish-Syrian border rallying in support of the people of Kobani, under heavy attack from Islamic State militants.
Kurdish Service reporter Zana Omer reports the protesters praised Syrian Kurdish militias for their resistance against the Islamic State. The militias are viewed with suspicion by Ankara for their links to the PKK. Also known as the Kurdistan Workers Party, the PKK fought against the Turkish government for almost 40 years until a 2013 cease-fire. The PKK is considered a terrorist group by Turkey and the U.S......................http://www.voanews.com/content/voa-exclusive-turkish-troops-fire-on-kurdish-protesters/2480286.html
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