The Tragedy In Kobani: Turkey's Crocodile Tears
"From the start, we said the coalition's airstrikes will not be able to save Kobani or to defeat Daesh in the area."
"We call upon the international community to open a humanitarian safe passage to allow in food, medicine and weapons supplies."
Idriss Nassan, deputy head, Kobani foreign relations committee, Syria
"While we are concerned about the tragedy in Kobani, we believe that fighting this terrorism there has somehow turned into a PR campaign."
"Honestly, we are tired of all this raising of awareness at certain moments -- dropping a couple of bombs is not enough."
"Airstrikes are necessary but if you don't have a political perspective on the future of Syria, aerial bombardment is not enough and Kobani is not going to be the last town which will be attacked in this way."
Cemal Hasimi, adviser to Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkey
Food, medicines and weapons supplies; is that too much to ask for, in the absence of international commitment to send in troops? Needless to say, it shouldn't be the responsibility of the international community outside of the Middle East to respond to the Kurds' dreadful predicament with the damningly bloody advance of the Islamist forces for whom no amount of spilled blood will staunch their appetite for more.
The Kurds, however, are Kurds, not Arabs. Being Arab can be almost as bad as being a non-Arab in the Middle East if the polarized attitudes of sectarians are taken into consideration. That the Kurds are also Muslims seems to warrant them no greater consideration than their offshoot Yazidis, who are not. The Kurds are left, in the landscape of the Middle East, with its tangled Byzantine tribal politics, ethnic hatreds and sectarian dysfunction, to their own devices.
Although the deadly malice of the Islamic State has been turned against Shiites primarily, it shines its bleak, black visage on Christians and any other minority ethnic and religious groups who have the misfortune to have lived since antiquity in the path they now take to pillage, rape and murder in establishing their Caliphate. The destruction of all opposition, the forced conversion to their fanatical Islamofascism, the abandoning of all hope of rescue from their deadly talons is their immediate legacy.
The U.S. Central Command vaunts its airstrikes on Islamic State targets close by Kobani, as they enumerate the command posts, the fighting and sniper positions, heavy machine gun emplacements, armoured cars and other items they have destroyed as their achievements. "Indications are that airstrikes have continued to slow ISIL advances, but that the security situation on the ground in Kobani remains tenuous", stated an American military spokesman.
Really?
Although the Kurdish forces in the battle for Kobani have made modest advances in pushing back ISIS, without heavier weapons and more fighters to their cause they fear being set back once again. Turkey remains adamant its borders will not be opened to permit Kurdish militia members in northwestern Syria, the YPG, to travel through their territory to reinforce Kobani.
Nor will food, medicines or weapons make their way to help the Kurdish forces. But Turkey doesn't hesitate to poke fingers in the eyes of those not of the region, not Muslim, who are attempting the impossible; to be uninvolved to a degree in yet another Middle East malfunction, and at the same time attempt to aid those unfortunates whom that malfunction victimizes.
In this image shot from a hilltop in Mursitpinar on the outskirts of
Suruc at the Turkey-Syria border, a partial view of Kobani, Syria,
during fighting between Syrian Kurds and the militants of Islamic State
group, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014. Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, and its
surrounding areas, has been under assault by extremists of the Islamic
State group since mid-September and is being defended by Kurdish
fighters. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
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this image shot from a hilltop in Mursitpinar on the outskirts of Suruc
at the Turkey-Syria border, a partial view of Kobani, Syria, during
fighting between Syrian Kurds and the militants of Islamic State group,
Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014. Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, and its
surrounding areas, has been under assault by extremists of the Islamic
State group since mid-September and is being defended by Kurdish
fighters. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
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In this image shot from a hilltop in Mursitpinar on the outskirts of
Suruc at the Turkey-Syria border, a partial view of Kobani, Syria,
during fighting between Syrian Kurds and the militants of Islamic State
group, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014. Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, and its
surrounding areas, has been under assault by extremists of the Islamic
State group since mid-September and is being defended by Kurdish
fighters. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
Labels: Defence, Islamic State, Kurds, Syria, Turkey, United States
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