The special UN envoy for Syria Staffan De Mistura on Friday called on Turkey to allow the Syrian Kurdish volunteers back across the border to rescue the city of Kobane attacked by jihadist Islamic state group.
“We call on the Turkish authorities to allow the flow of refugees to enter the city to support its action of self-defense,” said the envoy in a press conference in Geneva, while Turkey banned yet to refugees who crossed the border from Syria to cross back the other way.
He said fears of a “massacre”. “Remember Srebrenica” in the former Yugoslavia, he added. Mr. De Mistura, Pholos satellite support, explained that “10,000 to 13,000 people are at a place in the border area -between Turkey and Syria-and many are still inside the city.” “If it falls, civilians are most likely murdered,” said the diplomat.
“Since Kobane will likely fall if it does not help, let those who want to go to join self-defense, with enough equipment, the equipment can do many things,” said Mr. De Mistura for Turkey.
“It is not through UN resolutions that IE will stop,” he has said. “Our appeal to Turkey is that it takes extra steps to stop the advance of IE, if not all of us, including Turkey, will miss” Has he said.
Jihadists of the Islamic State (AEs) were able to advance in Kobané, became a symbol of resistance to the ultraradical group responsible for atrocities in Syria and Iraq, despite the strikes of the international coalition.
More than three weeks after launching the offensive to take this strategic Kurdish city in northern Syria, besieged south sides, east and west, the jihadists have taken the third since Monday and try to make their way to the northern limit of Kobané, about one km from the Turkish border.
Geneva, 10 October 2014 (AFP) –