Posted on 11/27/2014 7:58:36 AM PST by Sean_Anthony
Kobane symbolizes Turkish duplicity
“A martyred town, a symbolic town” is the poignant description of Kobane, by French President Francois Hollande. He stated that “all countries concerned” should be providing weapons to the Kobane defenders and pointedly stated as bluntly as any diplomatic language can , that “Turkey must absolutely open its border.”
If Kobane is a symbol in Hollande’s words, then what did Hollande think it symbolic of?
Kobane is an encircled Syrian Kurdish city of 160,000 inhabitants just inside the Syrian border from Turkey and entrenched on three sides by the well-equipped ISIS army that has promised the secular pro west Kurds the same gruesome enslavement, death and genocide it has delivered to the Yazidi, Christians, Sabeans and all Muslims of a religiously paler shade. To the rear, the fourth side, lies Kobane’s supply line, a proverbial stone’s throw from the Syrian Turkish border, and the Turkish army, with massed tanks deployed on a small crest overlooking burning Kobane.
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