Kobanî

All investments in Turkey’s eastern and southeastern provinces will henceforth be protected by the gendarmerie forces, in addition to private security firms, Interior Minister Efkan Ala has said.

Deniz Naki recently posted a
Twitter photo expressing
support for Kurds fighting
ISIL in Kobane.

German-Turkish footballer Deniz Naki, who plays for Spor Toto Super League club Gençlerbirliği, has decided to leave his club and Turkey following a suspected racist attack over the weekend.

Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters who joined the battle for the Syrian border town of Kobane have been heavily shelling the positions of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants, a commander told AFP.

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) jihadists subjected a group of teenagers from the Syrian battleground town of Kobane to a string of abuses, including torture, during six months in captivity, Human Rights Watch said on Nov. 4.
      

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has released at least 93 Syrian Kurds from the flashpoint town of Kobane who were kidnapped in February, a monitor said Nov. 4.
      
They were among more than 160 Kurds abducted as they travelled east through Syria en route for Iraqi Kurdistan, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
      

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu is adamant that Turkey will not send troops into Kobani, or anywhere else in Syria, to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). He said this recently on BBC and repeated it over the weekend during the Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) meeting in Afyonkarahisar.

Although Turkey’s view of the battle over the Syrian border town of Kobane is extremely clear, it is not possible to say the same for U.S. officials in Washington, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has maintained, as he portrayed the U.S. capital city in cacophony of contradicting statements on Kobane.

When Ramazan Kızıl established Dalkurd FF, one of Europe’s most successful immigrant football teams, in a remote town in northern Sweden, he dreamt of one day raising the Swedish and Kurdish flags alongside one another in a European championship.

The resistance in Kobane and the following protests on Oct. 6-7 in Turkey have confronted us with the weaknesses of the peace process in Turkey, as well as the new reality in the region.

France and Turkey concur that anti-ISIL operations must extend beyond Kobane as President Erdoğan again demands a wider fight against al-Assad Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan took aim at Western leaders in Paris on Oct.