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About 10 Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters entered the Syrian town of Kobane through the border crossing with Turkey on Oct. 30, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
   
The monitoring group said the remaining peshmerga fighters were expected to enter the town - known as Ayn al-Arab in Arabic - "within hours".

A group of fighters from the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) crossed into Syria from Turkey on Oct. 29 to join Kurdish fighters defending the border town of Kobane against Islamic State jihadists, a local Turkish official said.

The official, who asked not to be named, said 150 FSA fighters crossed overnight in several buses.

The endemic electricity cuts in southeastern Turkey, which have triggered three-days of clashes in Mardin, have become the first concrete problem submitted to the new prime minister, Ahmet Davutoğlu.

Two years ago (July 31, 2012), in this column, I shared a letter sent from Hatay by my dear friend Ayşe Erdem. While guiding a group of Swiss journalists, she was reporting changes that had begun in the city with the emigration of refugees from Syria.

Two years ago (July 31, 2012), in this column, I shared a letter sent from Hatay by my dear friend Ayşe Erdem. While guiding a group of Swiss journalists, she was reporting changes that had begun in the city with the emigration of refugees from Syria.

The age-old problem of illegal electricity usage in eastern and southeastern Turkey, which has risen to the agenda once again with recent power outages, has deep and complex roots that cannot be explained solely by “poverty” or “political views.”

Turkey’s State Meteorological Service has warned about the serious health risks posed by a heat wave that will heat some cities starting June 26.