Erdogan Questions Kobane’s ’Importance’!

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday he doesn't understand "why Kobane is so important," but he nonetheless "personally made the offer" of sending peshmerga forces to the border city.

Erdogan said he "personally made the offer" of sending peshmerga forces, the armed forces of northern Iraq's Kurdish regional government, to Kobane.
Iraqi Kurdish lawmakers Wednesday approved the deployment of peshmerga forces to help Syrian Kurds battling the "ISIL" extremists in Kobane.

Addressing a press conference before leaving for an official visit to Latvia, Erdogan said Turkey did not approve of delivering foreign arms to "outlawed" groups, in reference to the Democratic Union Party [PYD], which is considered the Syrian affiliate of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK.

"I am finding it difficult to understand why Kobane is so important for them. There are no civilians left in Kobane. Some 200,000 have fled into our territories and we are accommodating them. Furthermore, the PYD did not accept the passage of peshmerga at first, only now have they partially agreed to it," he added.

The Turkish president said the US-weapons are "wrong" and "acceptable" as they had fallen into the hands of the PYD - a Syrian Kurdish group that Ankara does not support - as well as the "ISIL".
"I have already said the aid you deliver to the PYD and the PKK is unacceptable as far as we are concerned," Erdogan stated.

"It has become clear that this was wrong," he added, "ISIL have been showing those weapon caches on their websites for days now," he said.
Kurdish political parties in northern Syria signed Wednesday the "Dohuk agreement" to defend Rojava, a Kurdish-majority area in northeast Syria, against the "ISIL".

After 10 days of negotiations, the agreement was announced between the Kurdish National Assembly in Syria, or the ENKS, and the Western Kurdistan Democratic Social Movement or Democratic Society Movement, or the TEV-DEM. Both sides also held a meeting with Kurdish Regional Government President Massoud Barzani.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team