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Doctor Samet Menguc, Secretary General of the Istanbul Chamber of Medicine, reads a press statement decrying the Turkish government's inaction over the plight of Kobane. About two thousand people marched in Istanbul - one of several rallies across the cou

Iraqi peshmerga finally enter Kobane, but Turkey’s Kurds still hold their government accountable

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Turkey has given in to international pressure and allowed Iraqi peshmerga, as the Kurdish fighting force is known, into Kobane, Syria. But Kurds in Turkey say they’re still not happy with the way they’re being treated by the ruling AK Party, headed by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.