Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan would rather see the Islamic State (ISIS) take over the border town of Kobane if the only way to defend it is to give arms to Kurdish rebels, he said Sunday.
For Turkey, the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), which is the main group fighting ISIS in Kobane, is “no different” than Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which Turkey claims is a terror group that has fought Turkey over the issue of Kurdish independence.