(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkey's president said Friday that Ankara would allow hundreds of Syrian rebels to travel to the embattled border town of Kobani in order to help Kurdish fighters there fend off an Islamic State onslaught, AP reported.
But Syrian opposition activists denied there were any such plans, and Kurdish fighters reacted angrily to the announcement, viewing it as a slight to their dogged defense of the town over the past month.
Key rebel group Islam Amy, which dominates Eastern Ghouta suburbs near Damascus, has denied sending any fighters to Kobani.
Zahran Alloush, Islam army commander and one of bitterest opponent of ISIS said on his Twitter account that the media chaos makes the vandals publish what they want.
The announcement by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan suggested more assistance for Syrian Kurdish fighters who have been battling the extremists since mid-September, when the IS group launched a sweeping offensive to try to take Kobani. A U.S.-led coalition is also shelling militant positions around the town.
During a state visit in Estonia, Erdogan said the Western-backed Free Syrian Army would send 1,300 fighters to the Syrian town. He told reporters that the rebels were negotiating their route with Kurdish forces in the town.
"The
PYD accepted (the) FSA to send 1,300 fighters. Now they are negotiating the
route," he told reporters, referring to the Syrian Kurdish Democratic
Union Party, the PYD, which governs Kobani and has been leading its defense. (With AP)
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