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ANKARA — Islamic State of Iraq was said to have attacked a Syrian Kurdish enclave from Turkey.
Kurdish and Syrian opposition sources reported an ISIL offensive on the Kurdish enclave of Kobane from Turkish territory. They said four ISIL suicide bombers blew themselves up along the Turkish border on Nov. 29 as the group monitored the attacks from grain silos in Turkey.
“Today, they are attacking from four sides,” Nawaf Khalil, the spokesman for the Kurdish Democratic Party, said.
The sources said at least one of the ISIL suicide bombers crossed into Kobane from Turkey. They said ISIL commandeered an armored vehicle that blew up near a position of the Kurdish Democratic Party along the Syrian-Turkish border.
The suicide strike triggered heavy fighting between ISIL and the Kurds. The sources said ISIL fired more than 110 shells from main battle tanks and at least 30 people were killed.
“The number of IS militants who blew up themselves has risen to four,” the opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. “One of them blew himself up in a booby- trapped car at the border crossing. Two others blew up themselves by booby-trapped vehicles in the southwest of the city while the last one blew himself up through an explosive belt.”
This marked the first report that ISIL used Turkish territory for attacks on Kobane. The Turkish opposition as well as Western diplomats asserted that ISIL was using the NATO state for recruitment and planning.
“They detonated car bombs both around the city and at the Turkish border checkpoints,” an unidentified Kurdish journalist told Russia’s Radio Sputnik. “From what we see here, it is apparent that the militants are located in Turkish territory and are launching attacks [on Kobane] from Turkey.”
For its part, Ankara acknowledged a suicide car bombing at the Mursitpinar border gate along the Turkish frontier. But a government statement denied that the vehicle arrived from Turkey.
“Claims that the vehicle reached the border gate by crossing through Turkish soil are a lie,” the Turkish government statement said. “Contrary to certain claims, no Turkish official has made any statement claiming that the
bomb-loaded vehicle had crossed in from Turkey.”
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