Yesterday, after a series of air strikes caused by the US-led coalition soldiers “Islamic state” (IG) left part of the captured positions in the Kurdish city of Coban in northern Syria. Kurds, whom the IG before the storm “complete destruction”, announced that for the protection of the capital of autonomy “are ready to repeat the feat of the heroes of Stalingrad.” Representatives of the Kurdish diaspora abroad declared “war double standards”: Western aid in the protection of Coban they feel inadequate and are convinced that the United States does not want to act against the interests of Turkey. This country has become another center of Kurdish resistance, which is about to spread to Europe.
Twenty-fourth day of the siege of the Kurdish city of Coban, located near the Syrian-Turkish border, marked by the success of Washington led coalition against the IG. Strike fighters forced the terrorist group to leave the part of the positions they occupied before. The representative of the People’s Self-Defense Troops (YPG) – the military wing of the dominant in Syrian Kurdistan Democratic Unity Party – yesterday assured the “b”, “fighting mood, while holding on.” He asked not to pay attention to the flags IG over Coban, trapped in front of cameras. “The city is not captured, and one of the flags hoisted ourselves, mined it – told” Kommersant “.- About 200 people from the IG excited and rushed there, mine was brought into action and destroyed almost all.”
The manual YPG announced yesterday that they will defend to the last Coban – “as did the defenders of Stalingrad.” “We now have a feeling that the IG waved and Bashar al-Assad and his regime and all the forces trying to take Kurdistan” – says “Y” head of the International Union of Kurdish associations Merab Shamoyev. The reason for this he refers to the ethnic and religious hatred Islamic radicals to the Kurds, some of whom profess Yezidism – “religion of Satan,” as it is interpreted in the IG. “It was the same summer in Shangaly, in Iraqi Kurdistan – like the source” b “.- But when IG unleashed genocide there, about those Kurds in the West immediately recalled by sending humanitarian aid and began to evacuate people. And about the Syrian Kurds to remember United States does not want to – not to infuriate Turkey, an ally. ”
air strikes by coalition positions IG Merab Shamoyev calls “half-measures.” In the same vein, the head of the Democratic Unity Party, leader of the Syrian Kurdistan Salih Muslim. Now he is in Brussels, where he talks about sending defenders Kobanov humanitarian and military aid. Yesterday he announced that he opposes a ground operation in Syria, but asks the West to provide Syrian Kurds weapons. Before Salih Muslim addressed the same request to the leadership of Turkey, but Ankara excluded the possibility of supply of weapons to the Kurds (see. “Kommersant” on 8 October). The fact that the soldiers YPG, participating in the battles against the IG, consider it their ideologist Abdullah Ocalan, who is serving a sentence in a Turkish prison leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). It has been officially announced by Ankara terrorist Abdullah Ocalan himself even during the rule of Hafez al-Assad ruled Syria of its activities – it caused severe damage relations between Ankara and Damascus, and was unable to make up for it so far.
Not surprisingly, the leader of the Syrian Kurds opposed the ground operation even more strongly than Damascus. Extension of the fight against the IG would mean active involvement in military operations in Turkey.
The two sides “b” in Ankara, however, assured Turkey can not and does not want to send troops into the territory of a neighboring country. “The war between the IG and the militant wing of the Democratic Unity Party – it is not Turkey, and Syria,” – said “Y” assistant professor, University of Economics and Technology in Ankara TOBB Togrul Ismail. He reminded the representatives of the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party in the Turkish Majlis voted against Turkey’s participation in the fighting in Syria.
However, as it turned out, so think not all Kurds living in Turkey. The radical wing of the PKK and all went into open conflict with the Turkish authorities: Tuesday across the country, a wave of large-scale protests. PKK members are opposed to the passive, in their opinion, Ankara’s position on the events in Coban. In some cities, protesters attacked the building of Turkish organizations allegedly linked to the IG. A recent statement by the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan that “the PKK and the IG represent the same threat to the country”, only added fuel to the fire.
As a result of armed clashes between the police and young people in Turkey, killing at least 15 people. In the six eastern provinces of the country, which has fallen and the epicenter of Kurdish protests, curfew. “This confrontation was not long ago – recognizes Tughril Ismail.- In recent years the Turkish authorities did not pursue the Kurds, it has allowed the PKK to extend its network across the country and a couple of days to raise large-scale chaotic rebellion.” Beginning of the unrest, according to him, “are marginal, and therefore will be violent and bloody.” Last night in some areas of Istanbul and Diyarbakir – unofficial capital of Turkish Kurdistan – Troops were brought.
The confrontation between the Kurds and Islamists and spreads to Europe. Given that those and many others in various European countries, it is fraught with not less severe collisions than in Turkey.
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