tiaraVillaRuby – Pertempuran telah
kembali di sempadan Syria-Turki, di mana ribuan Kurd Syria telah cuba untuk
melarikan diri dari kemaraan pejuang Negara Islam di bandar-bandar mereka.
Kegawatan pada hari
Isnin telah difilemkan oleh Ruptly agensi video RT, yang kini di tempat
kejadian.
"Berpuluh-puluh
ribu Kurdis Syria telah melarikan diri melalui sempadan yang kerajaan Turki
dibuka pada hari Jumaat - Ianya kini ditutup semula Terdapat beberapa keluarga
Kurdish menunggu pasangan terakhir hari untuk masuk, dalam panas yang terik
tanpa makanan dan air, "Ruptly Lizzie Phelan ini dilaporkan dari laman web
ini.
"Ada juga
Kurdis dan Kurd Turki [pada sebelah Turki sempadan] yang mahu pergi ke Syria
Syria, kerana - sebagaimana yang mereka katakan - mereka mahu untuk membentuk
perisai manusia terhadap ADALAH terlebih dahulu pada Kobani, kerana terdapat
banyak daripada bimbang jika IS melakukan mengambil alih Kobani, iaitu sebuah
bandar 45,000 orang, akan ada penghijrahan yang diperba-harui, "yang melaporkan
Lizzie Phelan.
Pihak berkuasa Turki
secara ringkas ditutup sempadan pada hari Ahad, selepas pertempuran meletus
antara pasukan keselamatan dan penunjuk perasaan, yang telah bangkit dalam
menyokong pelarian.
Pasukan keselamatan Turki bertembung dengan Kurd,
beribu-ribu melarikan diri ISIS (VIDEO) Turkish security troops clash with Kurds, as
thousands flee ISIS (VIDEO)
Bilangan Kurd Syria
yang telah menyeberangi sempadan ke Turki sejak beberapa hari lalu, melarikan
diri dari pejuang Negara Islam, telah melebihi 130,000, menurut anggaran
terkini oleh pihak berkuasa Turki.
Angka itu diberikan
oleh Timbalan Perdana Menteri Numan Kurtulmus, yang percaya jumlah pelarian
yang kemungkinan kian berkembang.
"Jika Isil
[Sekarang Negara Islam, yang sebelum ini ISIS/Isil] serangan terus di rantau
Kobane itu, Turki mungkin menghadapi kemasukan intensif," Kurtulmus kepada
pemberita di Ankara, menurut AFP.
"Border ini
tidak ditutup kepada pelarian per se, ia diuruskan. Ini adalah untuk memastikan
sifat awam suaka," Ariane Rummery, Pegawai Kanan Komunikasi Agensi
Pelarian PBB, memberitahu RT.
Beliau menambah
bahawa "pengurusan" adalah satu proses 3 peringkat, termasuk
pemeriksaan keselamatan, pemeriksaan kesihatan "di mana orang ramai boleh
mendapatkan suntikan vaksin," dan proses pendaftaran.
"Saya fikir ia
adalah sangat penting bahawa bahagian masyarakat antarabangsa beban dan memberi
apa-apa sokongan yang mereka boleh untuk masyarakat tuan rumah.
Kita perlu ingat
bahawa nombor agak kecil pelarian yang bergerak lebih jauh ke Eropah dan
sebagainya, jadi kita perlu sempadan dibuka sepanjang sekitar di Eropah dan
bukan sahaja di negara-negara jiran, "Rummery memberitahu RT, sambil
menambah bahawa ia bukan hanya Turki yang memerlukan bantuan, tetapi juga
Lubnan dan Jordan.
Kumpulan pelampau
melancarkan serangan ke atas kawasan-kawasan Kurdis dengan penduduk di utara
Syria pada Selasa, memaksa beribu-ribu penduduk meninggalkan rumah mereka.
Negara Islam telah
menangkap sekurang-kurangnya 64 buah kampung di sekitar bandar sempadan Ayn
al-Arab, atau Kobani dalam Kurdish, yang merupakan rumah kepada salah satu
masyarakat Kurdish terbesar di Syria.
Pada hari Ahad,
penunjuk perasaan di sempadan tertuduh Ankara membantu mewujudkan masalah
Negara Islam di tempat pertama, dengan menyokong pem-berontak Syria terhadap
Presiden Assad.
Penganalisis politik
Caleb Maupin juga percaya Ankara perlu berkongsi tanggungjawab untuk krisis
pelarian semasa.
"Hakikat bahawa
Turki telah dibenarkan pelampau ini, yang sedang mencari untuk menjejaskan
kestabilan Syria untuk menubuhkan pangkalan di Turki dan pergi ke sempadan
untuk menjalankan serangan mereka di Syria . . . ia akan datang kembali menghantui
mereka. Jika anda menyokong jenis unsur-unsur mereka akhirnya akan menghidupkan
kamu, "Maupin memberitahu RT.
Sempadan Turki
dengan Syria telah dibuka semula, tetapi hanya pada satu titik, berhampiran
bandar Mursitpinar, menurut kecemasan pimpinan Turki, yang AFAD.
"Satu titik
tunggal telah dibuka untuk pelarian Syria, supaya kita boleh melakukan kawalan
identiti dan memberikan pertolongan cemas, vaksin orang jika perlu," kata
seorang pegawai AFAD, menurut AFP.
Agensi pelarian PBB,
UNHCR, memberi amaran pada hari Sabtu bahawa jumlah bilangan pelarian mungkin
akhirnya akan dianggarkan dalam beratus-ratus ribu.
NEW Clashes Erupt at Syrian-Turkish BORDER
as 130k Refugees FLEE . . .
Clashes have resumed
at the Syria-Turkey border, where thousands of Syrian Kurds have been trying to
escape from the advance of the Islamic State fighters on their towns.
The turmoil on
Monday was filmed by RT’s Ruptly video agency, currently at the scene.
"Tens of
thousands of Syrian Kurds have fled through the border which the Turkish
government opened on Friday - it's now closed again. There are a few Kurdish
families waiting for the last couple of days to get in, in the blazing heat
with no food and no water," Ruptly's Lizzie Phelan reported from the site.
"There are also
Syrian Kurds and Turkish Kurds [on the Turkish side of the border] who want to
go into Syria, because - as they say - they want to form a human shield against
an IS advance on Kobani, as there is a lot of fear that if IS do take over
Kobani, which is a city of 45,000 people, there will be a renewed exodus,"
Lizzie Phelan reported.
Turkish authorities briefly closed the border on Sunday, after clashes
broke out between security forces and protesters, who had rallied in support of
the refugees.
The number of Syrian
Kurds who have crossed the border into Turkey over the last several days,
escaping from Islamic State fighters, has exceeded 130,000, according to the
latest estimate by Turkish authorities.
The figure was given
by Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus, who believes the number of refugees
is likely to grow.
"If ISIL [Now
the Islamic State, formerly ISIS/ISIL] attacks continue in the Kobane region,
Turkey may face an intensive influx," Kurtulmus told reporters in Ankara,
according to AFP.
"The border is
not being closed to refugees per se, it is being managed. This is to ensure the
civilian nature of asylum," Ariane Rummery, Senior Communications Officer
of the UN Refugee Agency, told RT. She added that the "management" is
a three-stage process, including a security screening, a health screening "where
people can get vaccinations," and a registration process.
"I think it's
very important that the international community share the burden and give any
support they can to the hosting communities. We have to remember that
comparatively small numbers of refugees do move further afield to Europe and so
on, so we need open borders all around in Europe and not just in the
neighboring countries," Rummery told RT, adding that it's not just Turkey
that needs help, but also Lebanon and Jordan.
The extremist group
launched an offensive on Kurd-populated areas of northern Syria on Tuesday,
forcing thousands of residents to flee their homes. The Islamic State has
captured at least 64 villages around the border city of Ayn al-Arab, or Kobani
in Kurdish, which is home to one of the largest Kurdish communities in Syria.
On Sunday,
protesters at the border accused Ankara of helping create the problem of the
Islamic State in the first place, by backing Syrian rebels against President
Assad.
Political analyst
Caleb Maupin also believes Ankara should share responsibility for the current
refugee crisis.
“The fact that
Turkey has allowed these extremists, which are seeking to destabilize Syria to
set up bases in Turkey and go over the border to carry out their attacks in
Syria... it’s going to come back to haunt them. If you support these kinds of
elements they will eventually turn on you,” Maupin told RT.
The Turkish border
with Syria has been reopened, but only at one point, near the town of
Mursitpinar, according to Turkey's emergencies directorate, the AFAD.
"A single point
has been opened for displaced Syrians, so that we can do identity control and
give first aid, vaccinating people if necessary," an AFAD official said,
according to AFP.
The UN refugee
agency, the UNHCR, warned on Saturday that the total number of refugees might
eventually be estimated in the hundreds of thousands.
READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/89yvih
