Turkish army uses tear gas to move press, Kurds from border

AFP ^ | 10/6/2014

[markomalley]

The Turkish security forces Monday used tear gas to push dozens of reporters and Kurdish civilians away from the border zone close to intense fighting for the besieged Syrian town of Kobani.

The armed forces employed tear gas for the second day in a row to push people back from the border area which has become increasingly dangerous owing to mortars fired from Syria, an AFP correspondent reported.

"Leave or else we will intervene," the security forces ordered through loudspeakers on trucks.

[Prospero]

Strange story. Suruc is around 10 km northeast of the single border crossing, north of Kobane, which is closer to the border's south, inside Iraq.

One cannot tell from these reports which side Turkey is really aiding, or how apart from its actions is Erdogan's rhetoric.

[demshateGod]

Big, worldwide conflict is coming.

[AdmSmith]

Turkey has aided ISIS before and are NOT fighting them

“Turkish tanks driving along Turkish side border. ISiS at 800meter inside Syria. Turkey tanks r defending Turkey border, no firing at ISIS”

follow the development here:
https://twitter.com/HaraldDoornbos

[crusadersoldier]

Nothing would please the Turks more than to see the Kurds wiped out.

[AdmSmith]

Turkey prevents other Turks from fighting ISIS:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/07/world/middleeast/isis-moves-into-syrian-kurdish-enclave-on-turkish-border.html

[AdmSmith]

While Kurds – and Syrian Sunni rebels — come up with conspiracy theories about the U.S. holding at arm’s length those who are fighting ISIS on the ground in Syria, the American approach seems more in keeping with the “hesitation and half-steps” of the Obama administration that former spy director and Pentagon chief Leon Panetta complains about in his forthcoming book, Worthy Fights

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/06/america-s-wtf-air-war-in-syria.html

Very bad!

[AdmSmith]

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been expressing outrage that the US Vice-President Joe Biden should have identified Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as the states whose military and financial support led to the growth of Isis and Jabhat al-Nusra.

Mr Biden told a meeting at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics on 2 October that the Turks, Saudis and UAE “poured hundreds of millions of dollars and tens of thousands of tons of weapons against anyone who would fight Assad, except that the people who were being supplied were al-Nusra and al-Qaeda and the extremist element of jihadis coming from other parts of the world.”

For all Mr Erdogan’s disclaimers, Turkey still evidently regards Isis as a lesser enemy than Assad.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-on-the-verge-of-victory-in-kobani-as-us-strategy-lies-in-ruins-jihadists-close-to-taking-city-near-turkish-border-9778532.html