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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Anger As Wounded Kurdish Fighters Die Stranded At Turkish Border
2014-10-15
[Ynet] With medical supplies depleted in the war-ravaged north Syrian town of Kobani, Kurdish activist Blesa Omar rushed three comrades maimed in battle against Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
fighters straight to the border to dispatch them to a Turkish hospital.

He said he spent the next four hours watching them die, one by one, from what he thinks were treatable shrapnel wounds as Turkish border guards refused to let them through the frontier.
Only a few days ago the Turks were still allowing in the wounded for treatment. Now Erdogan is getting revenge for PKK defiance against their rightful neo-Ottoman rulers.
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  The Kurds, like the Armenians, have long memories. This will come back to haunt Turkey in the near future.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2014-10-15 20:30  

#2  Turkey used to be relatively secular. They used to be a ally of the U.S. It seemed as if they had a chance at joining the civilized world. However, they slipped more and more towards Islamicism.
Posted by: JohnQC   2014-10-15 18:50  

#1  Expediting the treatment of wounded veterans does not a appear to be a Turkish government priority either.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-10-15 02:38  

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