4 October 2014 Last updated at 06:09 BST Intense fighting has flared between Kurdish militiamen and Islamic State (IS) militants advancing on Kobane in northern Syria. Swedish journalist Joakim Medin, who says he was the last foreign journalist to leave the town, filed this report for the BBC.
from the Personal Website of Mutlu Civiroglu, "Former US Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford responds to my question on Kurds in Syria on March 24, 2014 in Washington, DC"
Xinhua 9 Oct "This is a Turkish conspiracy to eliminate the Kurds from that area and to establish a buffer zone that aims at striking the Syrian Kurds and the YPG, which has been ruling the Kurdish areas over the past two years," Ossi said. "The Turks also want to use the Islamic State and the buffer zones to strike the Damascus administration," he said, adding that the Turkish administration wants to enter the Kurdish areas under the pretext of fighting the IS. "If the Turks persist on their stance, the Kurdish issue will explode and 45 million Kurds in the region will be united against the policy of Turkey in Kurdistan Iraq and the Kurdish areas in Turkey," Ossi warned.