Turkey's foreign minister insisted Thursday that it's not "realistic" for the world to expect it to go it alone in launching a ground operation against ISIS, even as a monitoring group said the extremists had seized a chunk of a key battleground town near its border.
Speaking alongside visiting NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Mevlut Cavusoglu said that airstrikes alone cannot change the balance of power or "clean the whole region of ISIS and other terrorists."
The remarks will dismay many in Turkey who have demanded military intervention in Syria.
Turkey has taken in more than 1.5 million people from Syria and Iraq, Cavusoglu said, including some 200,000 Syrians from the Kobani region in recent days.
A resolution passed the Turkish Parliament last week authorizing action against ISIS, which is also known as ISIL and calls itself the Islamic State.
ISIS is inching closer to overtaking Kobani, a Kurdish enclave in Syria that's a stone's throw from the Turkish border.
The town, also known as Ayn al-Arab, has been the scene of intense fighting and a string of airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition against ISIS fighters in recent days.
Despite the desperate efforts of Kurdish fighters, ISIS militants have managed to wrest control of a third of Kobani, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London-based monitoring group, said Thursday.Read the rest of the story HERE and view related videos below:
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Obama's repeatedly shown that he had no intention of stopping the advancement of ISIS.
Obama is as much a part of the Islamic jihad as any other members of ISIS.
We have our own home grown terrorist group and their known as the liberal Democratic party.
If we don't change the direction of America ourselves no one in Washington will be doing it for us either.
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