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Islamic State closes in on Syrian town, 100,000 Kurdish refugees flood into Turkey

Sep 21, 2014 9:59 pm By Robert Spencer

Syrian Kurds walk with their belongings after crossing into Turkey at the Turkish-Syrian border, near the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa provinceThe Islamic State will continue to advance until it is stopped. This isn’t difficult to understand. It has avowed designs on the whole world. It will keep advancing until someone stops it.

“Islamic State closes in on Syrian town, refugees flood into Turkey,” by Daren Butler and Sylvia Westall, Reuters, September 21, 2014:

(Reuters) – Islamic State militants tightened their noose on a northern Syrian border town on Sunday as the United Nations said the number of Syrian Kurds fleeing into neighbouring Turkey may have topped 100,000 and was likely to go much higher.

Residents fleeing the frontier town of Ayn al-Arab, known in Kurdish as Kobani, and its surrounding villages said the militants were executing people of all ages in the areas they had seized to create a climate of fear and slavish obedience.

Kurdish politicians in Turkey renewed their appeal to young people in the country’s mainly Kurdish southeast to head to Kobani to help their ethnic kin push back Islamic State, which has seized swathes of Iraq and Syria in recent months and proclaimed a caliphate in the heart of the Middle East.

“ISIL (Islamic State) are continuing to advance. Every place they pass through they kill, wound and kidnap people. Many people are missing and we believe they were kidnapped,” Welat Avar, a doctor, told Reuters by telephone from Kobani.

“We now urgently need medicines and equipment for operations. We have many casualties … ISIL killed many people in the villages. They cut off the heads of two people, I saw it with my own eyes,” he said.

A Kurdish politician from Turkey who visited Kobani on Saturday gave a similar account of the Sunni militants’ tactics.

“Rather than a war this is a genocide operation … They are going into the villages and cutting off the heads of one or two people and showing them to the villagers,” Ibrahim Binici, a deputy from Turkey’s pro-Kurdish HDP party, told Reuters.

“It is truly a shameful situation for humanity,” he said, calling for international intervention.

Some Syrian Kurds compared their plight to the Yazidi minority in Iraq, which came under attack from Islamic State earlier this year. Tens of thousands of Yazidis were forced to flee their homeland of Sinjar and other villages.

The United States has carried out airstrikes against Islamic State in Iraq and has said it is prepared to extend them into Syria, but it is not clear when or where this could take place.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power said on Sunday that other countries were willing to join Washington in launching air strikes in Syria against Islamic State militants.

“We will not do the air strikes alone,” she told CBS’ “Face the Nation”. “But we’re going to leave it to other nations to announce for themselves what their specific commitments to the coalition are going to be.”…

They don’t seem to be rushing to do so.

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  1. John C. Barile says

    Sep 21, 2014 at 10:07 pm

    Turkey’s PM Erdogan is very happy that the United States is leading from behind, leaving it to others to take the initiative. Meanwhile, Syria’s Kurds are crushed–but, heck, they aren’t going to be our proxies, and they sure aren’t going to worry Erdogan any more.

    • John C. Barile says

      Sep 22, 2014 at 7:36 am

      130,000 and rapidly climbing. Only, Mr. Obama doesn’t think he should have helped them to fight the Islamic State; no. It wouldn’t have gone over well with Erdogan.

  2. JIMJFOX says

    Sep 21, 2014 at 10:11 pm

    And Turkey (NATO ally) with dreams of heading the global caliphate still has not woken up! You’ve been trumped by ISIS, you moron Erdogan…

  3. JIMJFOX says

    Sep 21, 2014 at 10:15 pm

    O/T– pity you have to accept the ridiculous ads that promise mythical ‘transformations’. Snake oil has made the transition from the 19th century-
    P.T. BARNUM would be SO proud.

  4. John C. Barile says

    Sep 21, 2014 at 10:18 pm

    Let’s see now, the Syrian Kurdish YPG–rescuers of Yezidis from Mt.Sinjar–are removed from the theater of battle north and east of Aleppo–onward go the battalions of IS fighters, tanks and armor, and Obama and his Syrian “allies” can’t or won’t stop them.

  5. Wolfgang says

    Sep 21, 2014 at 10:23 pm

    ” The Islamic State will continue to advance until it is stopped. This isn’t difficult to understand. It has avowed designs on the whole world. It will keep advancing until someone stops it.”

    Which western nation will stop ISIS ? or for that matter ANY nation , all the western leaders are drinking the same kool aid ” ISIS has nothing to do with Islam ”

    In the meantime Mexican drug cartels are heading downunder, lopping heads off as they go ! now where did they learn this stuff from ? I wonder !

    http://www.9news.com.au/world/2014/09/22/09/30/mexican-drug-gang-hits-aussie-shores

    Also Muslim prisoners are rioting in Goulburns Supermax prison over them not being allowed afternoon prayers..

    http://www.9news.com.au/national/2014/09/22/04/12/prisoners-riot-at-goulburn-jail-after-crackdowns-on-muslim-prayer-meetings

    • Angemon says

      Sep 22, 2014 at 9:29 am

      And muslims in Minnesota are demanding for halal food and no pork in the Food Bank.

  6. Don McKellar says

    Sep 21, 2014 at 10:29 pm

    That piece of garbage in charge of Turkey isn’t going to pull the trigger until ISIS starts taking over Turkish towns. And that’s for the simple fact that he doesn’t want to give the army any potential political power, and certainly doesn’t want any any heroes to emerge! That’s because, if that were to happen, his days are numbered. Turkey’s history in the 20th Century was one of:

    Military rules, imposes secularism, relaxes, democracy and liberty ensues.
    Islamic supremacists slip in, start imposing sharia on all.
    Military takes over, wipes out the Islamic supremacists, imposes secularism, relaxes, democracy and liberty ensues.

    Then repeat this cycle 4 or 5 times.

    Turkey’s PM Erdogan is an Islamic supremacist, imposing sharia. He knows what happens next and is afraid to act.

    • Paleologos says

      Sep 22, 2014 at 12:22 am

      Don McKellar,

      When summarizing Turkish history, please never forget to mention the Armenian genocide.

      R/

      Paleologos

      • Don McKellar says

        Sep 22, 2014 at 12:48 am

        Yes, but that was the Ottoman Empire who did that, and those evil Islamic supremacists were defeated and destroyed in the independence war to create the modern Republic of Turkey as we know it in 1922 with sweeping secularization and a modern state with a constitution. That is the Turkey whose history I am refering to. The country was born in 1922.

        That doesn’t diminish or negate the Armenian genocide’s importance, nor does it excuse the shameful inablility to fully admit to it happening.

      • Falsafa says

        Sep 22, 2014 at 1:34 am

        nor should the genocide of the Ottoman muslims from the Balkans in the latter part of the 19th and 20th centuries and the attempted genocide and ethnic cleansing of the muslims in eastern anatolia during WWI by the invading Russian forces aided by Armenian irregulars in the hopes of carving out a “western Armenia”…should be forgotten.

        • dumbledoresarmy says

          Sep 22, 2014 at 3:05 am

          Your attempt to reverse reality and turn victims – the Armenian Christians, whose presence in Anatolia predated the arrival of Islam and the arrival of the Turkish invaders – into perpetrators is simply sickening.

          Mohammedans of Turkish ethniciy were not indigenous to the Balkan peninsula, either; they arrived as invaders, occupiers and imperialists, they treated the local non-Turkish Christians like sh*t (devshirme, regular pogroms, jizya extortion racket, etc), and eventually the locals rose up and gave them the boot. Just like the native Spanish and Portuguese gave the Muslims the boot, out of the Iberian Peninsula. That’s not “genocide”; that’s *decolonisation* and *national liberation*.

          So quit whining and lying.

        • paddy says

          Sep 22, 2014 at 6:50 am

          people like you really make me sick..you really do. Your muslim hordes invade and create death and carnage in the civilised world. Of course we beat you back to the Anatolia and North Africa..simply because your whole philosophy on life is medieval and barbaric. Grow up!

        • Jay Boo says

          Sep 22, 2014 at 7:04 am

          dumbledoresarmy
          Excellent comeback

        • Western Canadian says

          Sep 22, 2014 at 8:44 pm

          Just what we need…. another lunatic who will blame everything on the JOOOOOOSSS!!

        • Will says

          Sep 27, 2014 at 8:53 am

          Mazo’s comment is one with which I have to agree. While I totally support Israel, good or bad., I have no time for Ultra Orthodox Jews from personal experience plus the fact that they are doing more damage to the Israeli economy than the Muslims ( every UO Jew can claim exemption from military service and then claim to be a “student of religion” and never work and spend all of their time with the Torah bludging off Israel’s economy as well as having 8 children per family). They are certainly not as violent as Muslims but they are not exactly philanthropic(one threw dog shit at my sister for wearing a miniskirt to the wailing wall) and are like any religious fanatic: bloody stupid and a threat to their own countrymen.

    • Beagle says

      Sep 22, 2014 at 1:24 am

      Are you factoring in Erdogan’s purges of the officer corps? I have no idea how secular or not the Turkish military is after Erdogan.

    • paddy says

      Sep 22, 2014 at 6:36 am

      I agree…I sincerely hope all ordinary educated Turks and Kurds within the Turkish borders will stop this idiot.

      • Jay Boo says

        Sep 22, 2014 at 11:57 am

        I would not put too much faith in the Ottoman Turds

  7. Jay Boo says

    Sep 21, 2014 at 11:29 pm

    Islamic rape gangs with guns and butcher knives
    on the loose in the UK and Syria
    are acting just like their piggy false prophet Muhammad.

  8. fair_dinkum says

    Sep 22, 2014 at 12:26 am

    “It is truly a shameful situation for humanity,” he said, calling for international intervention.”

    no kidding. but who exactly? and to what extent?
    time for the moslum countries to stand up .. we cant nurse you forever.

  9. Beagle says

    Sep 22, 2014 at 1:17 am

    This is not what losing looks like in my opinion. Every time I read IS is surrounded by enemies, will collapse, or is too barbaric to run a state, their supposed enemies melt away, IS conquers more territory, and they expand their state.

    What happens with Turkey is critically important to estimating the future of IS. Interesting times.

    Erdogan was so sure any revived caliphate would be Ottoman and he would be in charge. Oops, he forgot the Baghdad and Damascus versions. The schadenfreude is overwhelmed by concerns this is spinning completely out of control, especially with nearly the worst possible president for this situation.

    Thanks again, 52%, for nothing. You got your change. Not seeing the hope.

    Change is like the effect of gravity. You don’t need to vote for it. Idiots. Change does not automatically mean better.

    • Steffen Larsen says

      Sep 22, 2014 at 2:25 am

      I think Turkey is one of the nations in the area solidly nationalistic, while Iraq and Syira are artificual constructions. Offending “Turkishness” is a crime, andI get the impression that to many a Turk their ethnic nationality is more important than being a Muslim. What with the annual celebrations of the conquest of Constantinople, ethnic clenansings and all that.
      Turkey should therefore be a stop sign for IS …unless of course the ordinary Turks reconsider their loyalties. But IS have lots of opportunities to the south, lots of plunder, lots of royal necks to yearn for.

      • Beagle says

        Sep 22, 2014 at 3:05 am

        Sounds like good analysis, but I wonder about this: “unless of course the ordinary Turks reconsider their loyalties.”

        It’s hard to reconcile Turkish nationalism with Islamic piety when a Sunni caliph is waging jihad and he is calling for your help, I’d guess. As a supposedly good Muslim, Erdogan could be viewed as a lieutenant, not a national leader, depending on the caliph’s perceived legitimacy. What happens when Abu Bakr starts giving Erdogan orders?

        Don’t discount the sex slaves and good pay. Those are big draws for young repressed Muslim males, if returning Islam to its former glory under the expansionist Rightly-Guided Caliphs is not enough.

      • paddy says

        Sep 22, 2014 at 7:05 am

        I’m inclined to agree BUT having lived in Turkey for a number of years I came across many Turks who saw themselves first as muslims and even met a few who saw themselves as ghazis (killers of infidels). Make no mistake, the islamic ottoman empire and turkish nationalism are a potent combination. Turks do not harbour any allegiance to Europe or America. They can not be trusted.

  10. salamander says

    Sep 22, 2014 at 4:47 am

    The structure of tyranny 1. Abuse always expands to fill the limits of resistance to it . 2. If people don’t resist the abuses of others , they will find there is no-one to resist the abuses of themselves, and tyranny will prevail.

  11. Natalie says

    Sep 22, 2014 at 6:56 am

    And I just saw a video on MEMRI about how Andalusia is also Muslim land, and the Muslims were driven out by the Christians (along with a thriving, flourishing Jewish population), but that doesn’t mean it isn’t still Darb-al-Islam , and this person (imam?) was calling on all Muslims to liberate al-Andalus as well. Well, if Spain got attacked, what would the reaction of the Western world be? Continue to sleep, believing this is only a Middle-Eastern Problem, or wake up and realize that the final goal of all Muslim terrorist organizations is control of the world. The whole thing reminds me of the early days of Naziism, when the other Western countries were still appeasing, and trying to pretend nothing was happening that they couldn’t resolve at the negotiation table (while thousands were marching and rioting and the police were arresting Jews in the middle of the night for nothing). Israel is, and always has been the bell-wether of Islamic domination plans — when things are going fairly smoothly with Israel, not so much need to worry, but when things start getting rough in the neighborhood, better look out and be prepared to fight!

  12. Beagle says

    Sep 22, 2014 at 7:02 am

    Well, if Spain got attacked, what would the reaction of the Western world be?
    — —

    End the Spanish occupation of Spain!

  13. wildjew says

    Sep 22, 2014 at 8:42 am

    Meanwhile, America dwells securely,
    She says in her heart,
    ‘I am, and there is no one besides me.
    I will not sit as a widow,
    Nor know loss of children….’ (Isaiah)

  14. fair_dinkum says

    Sep 22, 2014 at 8:53 am

    2nd post..

    its at least encouraging that there are kurds in the turkish government.

    but more urgent. turkey has closed its border with syria. 130 000 kurds made it through before they shut it down.

    turkey has the largest kurd population at 18% but ive suspected racism rather than religious issues, as kurds are mostly sunnis now..with yazidis and others already attacked, destroyed and executed or enslaved … its race.. theyre shafis.

    turkey have set up a rock to the IS hard place. there is nowhere for them (the remaing kurds and others in syria) to go.

    this will be murder and slavery.

  15. Mirren10 says

    Sep 22, 2014 at 11:35 am

    If the majority of Kurds are Sunni, why are they running away from the Sunni Islamic State ?

    • Jay Boo says

      Sep 22, 2014 at 11:55 am

      Islam is not a religion; it is an excuse
      Even Saddam Hussein used a verse of the Koran to excuse his attack on the Kurds.
      Muslim Arab people are thieving racists who rape and plunder using verses of the Koran.
      They follow Muhammad’s example.

      http://www.islam-watch.org/authors/117-ghalib/1553-to-my-fellow-muslims-with-love-revealing-real-muhammad-and-islam-part-6b-zakat-the-4th-pillar-of-islam-a-means-for-making-muhammad-wealthy.html

    • John C. Barile says

      Sep 22, 2014 at 12:23 pm

      The Syrian Kurds’ political party and militia are Marxist-imbued secularists and are gender egalitarian, and the Islamic State declares them to be apostates.

  16. onisac says

    Sep 23, 2014 at 3:36 am

    So what good are the alliance troops doing, and all of those bombers and jet fighters?

    Or is that just another smoke and mirrors trick?

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