Muslim besvarar på ett klockrent sätt Erdogans krav på att YPG måste upplössas och ingå i FSA's hierarki. Turkarna vill ju att kurderna ska stridda för deras intressen och att kurderna inte ska få något i gengäld, typ som att något är gratis i den här världen.
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“We have been in a fight against this [Bashar al-Assad] regime since 2004,” Muslim told daily Hürriyet in his Brussels office. “We were being tortured in intelligence basements while you were [dining with them] in Aleppo, Damascus and Ankara. Now you are saying we should ‘do this and that to the regime.’ We have a policy. We have repelled and fired them from our areas. Do you want us to fight against them in Damascus and be a soldier there instead of you? We will not do that. We have stopped being soldiers for others, which Kurds have done throughout history.”
Och ideen om att turkar ska sätta in marktrupper mot IS, besvarar han med att de först ska rensa ut IS i Istanbul och sen kan de fokusera på andras områden.
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“They do not need to give anything else but anti-tank weapons if they really want to help our people in the region. A ground offensive would make things worse, not better. Who would they conduct the ground war against? Is it against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant [ISIL]? ISIL is in Istanbul,” said Muslim, adding ISIL should first be cleaned from Istanbul before a ground offensive was conducted. “If help comes we will both keep Kobane and repel ISIL.”
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/kurds-are-no-more-mercenaries-pyd-leader-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=72880&NewsCatID=352
Samtidigt så kräver internationella, Europeiska och turkiska organisationer för jornalister att de 20 syrisk kurdiska jornalisterna som sitter fängslade sedan 6 okt skall släppas. Dem tillsammans med 256 andra personer aresterades av turkisk polis då de flydde från Kobane till Turkiet och de har nu varit fångar i 8 dagar.
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) have called for the release of 20 Syrian-Kurdish journalists and media workers who were detained by the Turkish military.
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In a statement issued on 9 October, the Journalists Union of Turkey (TGS) called on Turkish authorities to free their detained colleagues.
"We join our affiliate, the TGS to demand that these journalists, and all the other Kurdish citizens, currently being detained in Turkey, be released immediately," said IFJ's president, Jim Boumelha.
"They sought refuge in Turkey after fleeing the dangerous situation in Kobane, but instead of being welcomed they have been treated like criminals. They have committed no crime and we demand that Turkish authorities treat them with respect."
http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2014/oct/13/journalist-safety-turkey
Det finns fotografier på YPG soldater vars sår tyder på att fienden använt kemiska vapen. IS kan alltså ha fungerande kemiska vapen.
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Kurdish activists had previously claimed that the chemical attack occurred on July 12, in the village of Avdiko in Kobani. According to health minister of the Kurdish authority in Kobani, Nisan Ahmed, the bodies of three Kurdish fighters killed in battles with IS were not damaged by bullets, but instead were marked by "burns and white spots...without any visible wounds or external bleeding.”
The MERIA Journal on Sunday published a number of photographs of the three Kurdish fighters, quoting expert Israeli sources as saying they appear to suggest that a chemical agent, likely mustard, was used. The experts added, however, that further information was needed to conclusively say that the fighters died from a chemical attack.
MERIA suggests that the chemical weapons may have been obtained following Islamic State's capture of the Muthanna compound, 35 miles north-west of Iraq. A 2007 CIA report cited by the journal, stated that the Muthana compound was used to make chemical weapons, including mustard agent.
http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Report-Photographs-of-Kurdish-fighters-bodies-suggest-chemical-weapons-use-by-ISIS-378644
