BBC News | Turkey Waits, Watches as ISIS Pushes Toward Border NBCNews.com With plumes of smoke visible from across the Syrian border, Turkey has a front-row seat to the key battleground against ISIS: Kobani. Refugees have flooded into Turkey, fleeing ISIS and pleading for more assistance for the Kurdish fighters battling to ... Kurds protest against Turkey as IS advances on Kobane Turkey, US Warn Syrian City Will Soon Fall ISIS Dares Turkey to Save Kobani |
Turkey's tough choice: Take on ISIS or the PKK? CNN (CNN) -- Turkey is in a tough spot. It has ISIS militants threatening the Syrian border town of Kobani, inching ever closer to confronting Turkish security forces. In addition thousands of Syrian Kurds, fleeing ISIS attacks, have massed along its ... |
RT (blog) | 'Turkey can fight ISIS without external assistance' RT (blog) “Turkey could destroy ISIS within a couple of hours using its air force and even military force…and Turkey has already hundreds of tanks building a wall of steel… and ready to go to the other side of the border before there is an attack by ISIS ... Is Turkey Chicken? |
Aljazeera.com | Cyprus halts unity talks with Turkey Aljazeera.com Cyprus' president has suspended talks on reunifying the divided island in response to Turkey's plan to search for oil and gas in waters where Cyprus had already licensed drilling. A government spokesman said Nicos Anastasiades' decision was the result ... Cyprus: Turkey Gas Search Could Hurt Peace Talks Cyprus Suspends Peace Talks with Turkey over 'Aggressive' Moves Samaras, Anastasiades talk after Turkey makes move on Cypriot EEZ |
RT | Tear gas, clashes, fatality: Anti-ISIS rally in Turkey turns violent (PHOTOS) RT The Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP) in Turkey summoned the country's Kurds to the streets to protest IS and the subsequent response from the ruling AKP party. Dozens have been wounded in the ensuing lashes between protesters and police. |
Wall Street Journal | Turkey's President Calls for Ground Troops to Fight Islamic State Wall Street Journal The U.S. is urging Turkey to take a more active role in the fight against Islamic State, and officials are set to meet this week in Turkey to discuss cooperation. Turkey's parliament last week approved a measure that allows Turkish forces to respond to ... |
NPR (blog) | Islamic State Poised To Capture Syrian Border Town, Turkey Warns NPR (blog) Updated at 11:35 a.m. ET. Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is warning that the Syrian border town of Kobani is on the verge of being captured by the self-declared Islamic State. "Kobani is about to fall," he told Syrian refugees in the Turkish ... |
New York Times | Turkish Inaction On ISIS Advance Dismays the US New York Times MURSITPINAR, Turkey — As fighters with the Islamic State bore down Tuesday on the Syrian town of Kobani on the Turkish border, President Obama's plan to fight the militant group without being drawn deeper into the Syrian civil war was coming under ... |
Fox News | For Western jihadists, path to ISIS runs through Turkey Fox News While Turkey is guarding its border from Kurdish refugees pouring in from Syria (l.), some say the nation is not doing enough to stop western jihadists from making their way to the Islamic State, often by plane to Istanbul and then by bus to the border ... Turkey cracks down on oil smuggling with ISIS in mind Turkey crackdown on oil smugglers feeding IS group Turkey cracks down on oil smuggling linked to ISIL |
Breitbart News | Turkish PM: Turkey Will Send Ground Troops to Syria only if US Targets Assad Breitbart News Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told CNN's Christiane Amanpour this week that Turkey was open to putting boots on the ground in Syria, but only if "we can be sure that our border can be protected," to which he later added, "We don't want the ... Turkey joins the fight against ISIL, but insists on pursuing its own agenda Turkey warned the West about ISIS threat: Davutoğlu Turkey is unconvinced by the Obama strategy |