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their current plans and targeted the Kurdish regions. The Western
world, who remained completely indifferent about almost all these
occupations in the Middle East, prepared a coalition force without
hesitation to protect these regions when they sensed an attack
towards the Kurdish region in Iraq.

The second and the real mobilization took place during ISIL's
attacks towards Kobane, the Kurdish canton in Syria.

As it can be remembered, after letting civilians cross into the
Kobane canton, ISIL started a guerilla operation aimed at the PYD,
who held the control of that region. Coalition forces, unfalteringly
and swiftly took their place on the side of the PYD (the Syrian branch

of the PKK terror organization) and started to bomb the occupied
regions and supplied arms to the YPG, the armed force of the PYD. In
the meantime, the entire Western media started to make reports about
Kobane as if they are all in cahoots, giving the impression that an
unprecedented disaster was taking place there and the mainstream
TV channels were reporting almost entirely about this. In social media
a support campaign, the like of which has rarely been seen, was start-

ed for Kobane. As if the lands occupied by ISIL only consisted of that
small town, an extraordinary international uprising was initiated. As

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