Chomsky
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World-renowned academic and political thinker Noam
Chomsky.
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October 15, 2014
NEW YORK,— The UN Security Council should
help establish a ceasefire to prevent a massacre of
Kurdish fighters, defending the Kurdish town of
Kobani in Syrian Kurdistan from Islamic State (IS)
militants, said world-renowned academic and
political thinker Noam Chomsky.
"With regard to Kobani, it is a shocking situation.
This morning's newspaper described Turkish military
operation against Kurds in Turkey, not against ISIS,
a couple of kilometers across the border where they
are in danger of being slaughtered. I think
something should be done at the UN in terms of a
strong resolution to call for a ceasefire," Chomsky
told reporters at the UN headquarters on Tuesday.
"It is hard to impose the use of force, but to the
extent that it can be done try and protect Kobani
from destruction at the hands of ISIS, which could
be a major massacre with enormous consequences,"
Chomsky said, adding
www.Ekurd.netthat
"the strategic significance of the town in the
Kurdish region is pretty obvious, and the Turkish
role is critical in this."
The IS, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq
and Greater Syria (ISIS) or the Islamic State of
Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), has been fighting the
Syrian government since 2012. In June 2014, the
extremist group expanded its attacks to northern and
western Iraq and declared an Islamic caliphate on
the territories that had fallen under its control.
For the past several weeks, Islamic State fighters
have besieged Kobani, also known as Ayn al-Arab, one
of the largest towns in the Kurdish region of Syria
bordering Turkey. Over 550 people have died in
clashes between IS and Kurdish fighters in the city,
according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for
Human Rights. The fighting has caused an estimated
180,000 residents of Kobani to flee across the
border to Turkey.
A US-led coalition is currently carrying out
airstrikes against Islamic State positions in Syria
and Iraq. US President Barack Obama's anti-IS
strategy also includes bolstering a ground force of
Kurds, Iraqis and moderate elements of Syria's
opposition.
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