This year the town was a point of clashes between the ISIS group and Kurds. The official Ankara is an interested party in the military conflict, as well.
Last week, the Turkish PM played an open hand. Speaking to “Al Jazeera” Ahmet Davutoglu stressed they did not want Kobane to fall into ISIS hands, so for preventing that they wanted to have a safe zone under the international coalition, which would be closed for the air flights.
Thus the Assad regime will be unable to bomb the civilians, Assad’s regime is much dangerous than the Islamists, he says.
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