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Wednesday, October 08, 2014

Turkey's leaders see Kobani as opportunity, not threat - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

Turkey's leaders see Kobani as opportunity, not threat

As Islamic State (IS) fighters keep up their battle to gain control over Kobani, a strategic Syrian Kurdish-controlled enclave on Turkey’s border, the effects of the conflict are being felt in Turkey itself. Thousands of Kurds took to the streets across the country on Oct. 7 to protest Turkey’s inaction against the Islamic State's seemingly unstoppable advance. In the southeastern town of Varto, a 17-year-old Kurdish youth was reported killed by live ammunition allegedly fired by security forces at the crowds. Elsewhere across the country, police clashed with demonstrators, trying to push them back with pressurized water and pepper gas while the Kurds responded with Molotov cocktails in a foretaste of the violence that is likely to engulf the country should Kobani fall.

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