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The Grand Turk
UN calls on Turkey to offer medical assistance to Kobani wounded
2015-06-26
[RUDAW.NET] The United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
has called on The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
to allow the maimed from Kobani across its border for medical care, the secretary-general's deputy front man told Rudaw on Thursday.

Farhan Haq also said that the UN would continue to deliver aid and supplies to Kurdish refugees across Syria's Kurdish regions, or Rojava.

On Thursday morning, holy warriors of the so-called 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....
(ISIS) group sneaked into the Kurdish town of Kobani in Syria, launching a wave of boom-mobiles and assaults that reportedly killed 75 people and injured 55 others.

Kobani was liberated in January after months of heavy fighting. The town is a powerful symbol of Kurdish resistance to ISIS, some referring to it as the "Kurdish Stalingrad."

In Ankara, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tanju Bilgic told news hounds that 63 maimed people had been brought to Turkey after the attack and that two of them, one a child, had subsequently died. Bilgic said Turkey had "immediately" opened its border to the maimed.
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