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Thanks for the map. This is a sick situation. Kurds defending their city and getting killed just for being between the border and the highway. The rebels control the border crossing and almost up to the highway, their clear goal. Any number of rebels can pour in behind them with Ankara bussing them up to the bridge. Hopefully, all civilians have left the city, or at least the south and middle. Sadly, if the YPG is able to call in more reinforcements, they probably already have. As they're already called "mercenaries of Assad" and fit to be killed, the Kurds may as well call off their policy of rebuffing the army too. The West, the UN, ain't stepping in to help these Syrians or even ask for the assault to end. (also: I'm only following Ras al-Ayn loosely, since you have it so well-covered, so my opinion may be off ) --Caustic Logic (talk) 13:08, 27 January 2013 (UTC)


 * No, that's spot on. Maybe the article could use a broader source base (so please keep your eyes open), but I kind of like to report it from a Kurdish perspective and what they report seems to tell the real story. See my last add, the videos from the Turkish hospital where you can see the wounded Allahuakhbars being treated and moved with Turkish resources. It's ridiculous. Added an introduction I think turned out quite helpful while concise - that's a situation you first have to wrap your head around before reading the chronology.
 * On a positive note, it seems that Turkey is now using the *cough* troubled characters amassed on their soil to prevent Syrian Kurdistan from uniting and self-ruling, instead of sending them in the general direction of Assad, which might indicate a change in their policy - and seems to have the opposite effect. --CE (talk) 19:06, 27 January 2013 (UTC)