TURKEY-SYRIA-CONFLICT-KURDS

TURKEY-SYRIA-CONFLICT-KURDS

A picture taken from the Turkish border near the southeastern village of Mursitpinar, in the province of Sanliurfa shows smoke billowing after a jet fighter hit Kobane, also known as Ain al-Arab, on October 28, 2014. Turkey wants the anti-Damascus Free Syrian Army (FSA) to control the Syrian border town of Kobane if Islamist jihadists are defeated, and not the forces of separatist Kurds or President Bashar al-Assad, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said. Turkey is fearful that Kobane could be taken over by Kurds allied to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) which has waged a three-decade insurgency for self rule and is regarded as a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and most of Europe.AFP PHOTO/STRINGER