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October 3rd, 2014 
Awake Goy World Bulletin/News Desk
Turkey does not want the predominantly Kurdish town of Kobani, near its border with Syria, to fall to ISIL and will do what it can to prevent that from happening, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said late on Thursday.
Just hours before Davutoglu’s comment, parliament gave the government powers to order cross-border military incursions against ISIL, and to allow foreign coalition forces to launch similar operations from Turkish territory.
“We wouldn’t want Kobani to fall. We’ll do whatever we can to prevent this from happening,” Davutoglu said in a discussion with journalists broadcast on the A Haber television station.
“No other country has the capacity to affect the developments in Syria and Iraq. No other country will be affected like us either,” he said
Davutoglu has blamed a lack of cooperation between opposition groups in Syria for failing to stem the advance of fighters.
Davutoglu said the people of Kobani, a Syrian Kurdish city besieged by the ISIL, for more than two weeks, were paying the price for the failure of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party to join forces with the Free Syrian Army.
Davutoglu said the government contacted the Kurdish PYD and the FSA last year and told them to act together to “avert the terror threat and regime attacks in the northern belt.”
He added: “If the PYD, instead of cooperating with the regime, had joined forces with the FSA and with the opposition, ISIL would not have found that much opportunity in the field.”
The attack on Kobani — just across the Turkish border — and surrounding villages has led to 160,000 refugees seeking sanctuary in Turkey.
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