{"id":56547,"date":"2015-01-27T09:40:08","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T07:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=56547"},"modified":"2015-01-27T09:40:08","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T07:40:08","slug":"barzani-thanks-turkey-for-help-in-freeing-kobani-56547","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/barzani-thanks-turkey-for-help-in-freeing-kobani-56547\/","title":{"rendered":"Barzani thanks Turkey for help in &#8216;freeing&#8217; Kobani"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56549\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/barzani-kobani-isil-turkey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/barzani-kobani-isil-turkey.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/barzani-kobani-isil-turkey-280x170.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/barzani-kobani-isil-turkey-591x360.jpg 591w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/>Kurdistan Regional Government President Massoud Barzani thanked Turkey for its role in freeing Kobani from ISIL fighters on Monday.<\/h1>\n<p>According to a statement released on the presidency\u2019s website, Barzani thanked Turkey for allowing Kurdish peshmerga forces from northern Iraq to enter Kobani through the country\u2019s borders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to thank Turkey on behalf of the Kurdistan Regional Government and myself,\u201d the statement said. \u201cI also want to thank the coalition forces for airstrike operations.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Celebrations in Turkey<\/h2>\n<p>News that Kobani was free of ISIL fighters and was completely under the control of opposition and Kurdish groups following four months of fighting was also celebrated in Istanbul, in the southeastern provinces of Diyarbakir, Batman, Sirnak, Siirt and Mardin.<\/p>\n<p>Groups lit fireworks, played and danced to music.<\/p>\n<p>Kobani was attacked by ISIL in Sept. 2014, forcing a wave of around 180,000 Kurdish refugees to flee to Turkey.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 9)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kurdistan Regional Government President Massoud Barzani thanked Turkey for its role in freeing Kobani from ISIL fighters on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,37,14],"tags":[2160,75844,75849,76130,14055,33888,76123],"class_list":["post-56547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-middle-east","category-world","tag-iraq","tag-isil","tag-isil-terrorist","tag-kobani","tag-kurdistan","tag-kurdistan-turkey","tag-massoud-barzani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}