Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has sent 150 Peshmerga paramilitary fighters into Turkey, to be taken across the country’s southern border into the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani (Ayn al-Arab in Arabic).
The plan was announced last week with the hope that the Peshmerga fighters would sway the battle in the favor of the Kurds, who have been holding off a growing ISIS force for weeks.
There are considerable doubts over whether or not 150 additional troops, even armed with artillery as they reportedly are, will really be a game-changer, with estimates of thousands of fighters on either side of the battle.
The Peshmerga fighters are expected to enter Kobani at some time overnight, and their leaders say “logistical problems” were behind the delay in sending the troops.
The Assad government was quick to praise the deployment of Peshmerga to Kobani, and has claimed to be providing other Kurdish factions there with military aid, hoping to keep ISIS from advancing deeper into Syria.
Kobani is the free passage for ISIS into Turkey and for turkey to supply ISIS, therefore isis is so eager to capture Kobani. There are 15 million Kurds living in turkey and all have a common enemy, the Turkish Erdogan regime, which is the main reason for Erdogan regime supporting ISIS rather then helping Kurds fighting ISIS in kobani. The European/NATO is yet another supporter of ISIS for various reasons, the most obvious one is the saudis oil and saudis/UAE economic investment in Europe/Germany such as air industry, air Berlin is one of them. Then you have that Danish Anders Fogh Rasmussen, former NATO boss and the leader of Neo fascism in Denmark while being Denmark prime minister ordered the closure of progressive Kurdish TV station in Denmark, whom also defends the Turkish Erdogan regime acts against Kurdish people.