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's pro-Kurdish party described an 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
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
attack on the Syrian border town of Kobani as a massacre and blamed it on Turkish state support for the hard boys, comments which will fuel tension in Ankara amid attempts to form a government.
Islamic State fighters launched simultaneous attacks against the Syrian government and Kurdish militia overnight, with at least one boom-mobile in an area near the border crossing with Turkey. Hospital officials said at least 15 people were killed and 70 maimed.
"The Turkish government has supported ISIL for years. Today's massacre is a part of this support," said Figen Yuksekdag, the co-leader of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), referring to Islamic State.
The pro-Kurdish HDP entered parliament for the first time after clearing a 10 percent threshold in the June 7 elections.
Its success helped to deprive the governing AK Party founded by President Tayyip Erdogan of a majority for the first time in over a decade. The AKP now needs to find a coalition partner.
"The remarks of Turkish politicians are null and void for us. It is up to the Turkish government to prove it does not support ISIL," she added.
Turkey, a Sunni Moslem nation with a secular constitution, is a member of the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State, although its partners have urged it to do more.
Yuksekdag also told news hounds there was a "high probability" that the attackers on Thursday had entered Kobani from Turkey. Ankara has denied such allegations and said the attack was staged from Jarablus, to the west of Kobani.