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By plane, the USA Kurdish fighters in Kobane have supplied with weapons, to the annoyance of Turkey. Erdogan criticized the Delivery: The Kurds in the besieged city he described as members of a terrorist organization.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has criticized the arms shipments from the USA to the fighting Kurds in Kobane. “What was done here was wrong,” he said on Wednesday in Ankara.

On Monday, the U.S. military had supplied the Kurds in the Syrian border town from the air with arms, ammunition and medical supplies. According to U.S. military command Centcom there were several flights with cargo aircraft of the type C-130th The supplies were provided by the Kurdish authorities in Iraq, the U.S. military command. Overall, it was 28 parachute packages.

Upon delivery, but not everything went smoothly: One of the packages landed in a field to Kobane, which is under control of the jihadists of the “Islamic State” trying since mid-September to take the city. Proudly boasted the radicals shortly afterwards on YouTube. Erdogan in his speech regarding this glitch. “Some of the weapons, of which they said that they would have dropped from the air for the PYD, are now in the hands of Isis,” Erdogan said.

Turkish President spoke out on Sunday against weapons aid to the Kurds. The Syrian-Kurdish party PYD in Kobane was as “a terrorist organization” as the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party PKK, Erdogan said over the weekend.

Air support in the fight against IS:Kurdistan Autonomous Region sends Peshmerga soldiers

Meanwhile agreed to the parliament of the Kurdish region in Iraq, the deployment of fighters to neighboring Syria. The Assembly decided to send the so-called Peshmerga soldiers in the northern Syrian city Kobane, said Parliament President Yusef Mohammed Sadek. The Turkish government had previously given the green light for the entry of troops to Syria. The peshmerga received in their fight against the IS in Iraq support from numerous countries, including Germany.

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