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First Peshmerga to head to Kobane on Sunday

By RUDAW 24-10-2014 – Peshmerga will arrive in Syria on Sunday to assist beleagured Syrian Kurds and Free Syrian Army units.  The first 150 Peshmerga forces will head to the besieged Syrian border town of Kobane on Sunday, Peshmerga sources told Rudaw. They will be manning heavy weapons in the fight against Islamic State militants. “Our enemies in Kobane are using heavy weapons and we should have heavy weapons too,” Brigadier Ramazan of the 2nd infantry brigade told Rudaw. “This support force will speed up the fight of the Kobane Kurds.”

These will be the first foreign troops to provide aid to Syrian Kurdish fighters in the city, which has been besieged by Islamic State fighters since mid September. On Thursday, Erdogan said an agreement had been reached with the YPG’s Democratic Unity Party (PYD), the main Kurdish faction in northern Syria, to send 200 Peshmerga.
“The PYD had agreed on a group of Peshmerga of up to 200-300 people. According to information I have just received, this figure has now reduced to 150,” Erdogan said on live television during a visit to Estonia.  He also confirmed several media reports the FSA, a loose group of anti-Islamist rebels backed by Turkey, the West and the Arab World, had agreed to send 1,300 of its men to fight alongside the Kurds in Kobane and that Ankara was also happy to let them cross through Turkish territory. This was subsequently denied by the PYD. The plan was proposed by Kurdistan Regional President (KRG) Massoud Barzani over two weeks ago in a series of secret meetings between the KRG, Turkey, the United States, and Syrian Kurdish parties. The Kurdish parliament in Erbil approved unanimously on Wednesday to send Peshmerga forces to the besieged Kurdish city of Kobane. Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani signed the parliamentary decree on Thursday. The official source said that members of the contingent are packed and ready to move through Turkey “without a passport and they need only their military IDs.”