Towards motion vote: Opportunist Turkey’s main target still Assad and Kurdish positions…

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Turkey prepares for bigger role in fight against Islamic State

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Simon Tisdall

Direct Turkish military engagement and the creation of a buffer zone could serve to curb growing Kurdish self-rule aspirations

MAIN FOCUS: Turkey prepares for action against IS | 02/10/2014

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The Turkish government is waiting to receive the go ahead from parliament today to take military action against the IS in Syria and Iraq. Ankara has the right to protect itself from the terrorist militia, some commentators believe. Others suspect Turkey of pursuing its own interests in neighbouring countries.

Massacre in Kobane would end PKK’s peace talks with Turkey: Öcalan

Öcalan has warned that peace talks will come to an end if ISIL is allowed to carry out a massacre in Kobane

ISIL at gates of Syria border town

Islamic State of Iraq and Levant fighters were at the gates of a key Kurdish town on the Syrian border with Turkey on Oct. 2
IŞİD Kobani yakınlarındaki Zorava'ya bayrağını dikti

Islamic State presses assault on Syrian border town, Kurds warn Turkey

By Ayla Jean Yackley and Alexander Dziadosz SURUC Turkey/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Islamic State insurgents pushed on with their assault on a Syrian border town on Thursday despite coalition air strikes meant to weaken them, sending thousands more Kurdish refugees into Turkey and dragging Ankara deeper into the conflict. Kurdish militants warned that peace talks with the Turkish state would come to an .

Turkish vote on campaign against IS

 BBC News | Europe | World Edition
The Turkish parliament is voting on a motion to deploy the military in Iraq and Syria and allow foreign troops to use its territory.

As the Islamic State rolls north, Turkey reconsiders military action
Haaretz
… East expressed a willingness to deal with the Islamic State problem, Turkey’s reluctance to become involved put Turkey in a rather difficult and isolated position, and now it’s trying to get out of it,” Ilter Turan, a political scientist at

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