TURKEY ALLOWING ISIL TO ATTACK KOBANI: ANALYST
[ Part 2.2: “Attached Text” ]
Wed Oct 15, 2014 10:35AM GMT
Related Viewpoints:
Defending Kobani: Turkey’s hesitation
Turkey allows the Takfiri ISIL group to attack Kobani because it is
a stronghold of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), an analyst
tells Press TV.
Scott Rickard, a former American intelligence linguist, told Press
TV in an interview Tuesday, “Turkey is working alongside NATO
to allow ISIS (ISIL) to attack Kobani. Kobani is strategically a
PKK stronghold.”
The PKK is a Kurdish organization that was until 2013 involved in an
armed militancy against Turkey for Kurdish self-determination.
Rickard added that Turkey is “taking the opportunity to direct
the ISIS forces and allow them to take out a traditional enemy,”
in reference to the PKK.
The comment comes as Turkish Kurds have launched street protests
voicing their concern over what they call Ankara’s cooperation
with Takfiri militants to carry out a massacre in the strategic Syrian
border town of Kobani.
Rickard stated, “The protests have been fairly non-violent;
but, unfortunately, the retaliation by the Turkish government has
been extremely violent.”
Turkish media have reported that Turkish warplanes bombed targets
belonging to the PKK in the southeast of Turkey. The PKK has condemned
the military airstrikes against its members in the southeast as a
violation of a ceasefire agreement signed in March 2013.
The Kurds are also angry at the government for preventing them from
crossing into neighboring Syria to reinforce the fight against the
ISIL terrorists.
Turkey also continues to block the supply of military equipment for
the Kurdish fighters defending the border city.
“We are looking at a scenario where they are deliberately
allowing these (ISIL) individuals to go after Kobani,” Rickard
emphasized.
Kobani, also known as Ain al-Arab, and its surroundings have been
under attack since mid-September, with the ISIL militants capturing
dozens of nearby Kurdish villages.
SC/HJL
ck-kobani/
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
