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Monday, October 27, 2014

Syrian Kurdish leader says Turkey delays peshmerga fighters from moving on Kobani

BEIRUT (Reuters) - A Syrian Kurdish official accused Turkey on Monday of stalling on an agreement to allow Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters to cross into Syria to help end the siege of the border town of Kobani. Saleh Moslem, co-chair of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), told Reuters that the peshmerga have been ready to go into Kurdish-defended Kobani for three days. "But we don't know what is going on between them and Turkey. The delay is because of Turkey," said Moslem, whose party's armed wing, the YPG, has been battling Islamic State militants in Kobani for a month. ... Read More http://ift.tt/1wCq869

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