OBAMA PRESS TURKEY TO SAVE SYRIAN KURDS
Robert Naiman
Urge President Obama and Members of Congress to strongly back U.N. envoy for Syria de Mistura’s call on Turkey to change its policy and save Syrian Kurdish civilians from massacre by ISIS, by signing and sharing our petition at MoveOn:
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/save-kobane
Here is the petition text:
“President Obama and U.S. officials, including Members of Congress, should do everything in their power to pressure Turkey to allow Kurds to defend the Syrian Kurdish border town of Kobane from the ISIS assault, and should do everything in their power to pressure Turkey to allow Syrian Kurdish civilians to escape Kobane.”
UN envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura has warned that 12,000 or so civilians still in or near Kobane, including 700 mainly elderly people in Kobane's center, "will most likely be massacred" by ISIS if the town falls to ISIS jihadists.
De Mistura called on Turkey "to support the deterrent actions of the coalition through whatever means from their own territory," and appealed to Turkey to "allow the flow of volunteers at least, and their equipment to be able to enter the city to contribute to a self-defense operation."
Urge President Obama and Members of Congress to do everything in their power to pressure Turkey to help stop the massacre of Syrian Kurdish civilians in Kobane by signing and sharing our petition.
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/save-kobane
Thanks for all you do to help make U.S. foreign policy more just, Robert Naiman Just Foreign Policy
References:
1. “Jihadists seize Kurdish HQ in Syria's Kobane, massacre feared,” Fulya Ozerkan and Sara Hussein, AFP, October 10, http://news.yahoo.com/fighters-capture-kurd-hq-syrias-kobane-monitor-113638651.html [Some English-language media transliterate the name of the town as “Kobani”; we followed the AFP usage in our petition and alert.]