The Turkish military has deployed tanks to the Syrian border after clashes have intensified in Kobani, which is still under siege by the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant militants, or ISIL.
There has been an apparent increase in the military mobilization along the Yumurtalık neighborhood. The tanks have been deployed along the positions in Yumurtalık with their barrels pointing at Syria's Kobani town, looming just across the border from the town of Suruç in the southeastern province of Sanlıurfa. The military officials in the border town of Suruç have been using binoculars to watch the clashes between the Kurdish militia and ISIL.
However, for safety reasons, such as mortar shells falling in the area, the military did not let the city’s residents approach the border to watch the clashes between the ISIL militia and fighters, linked with Syria's Democratic Union Party, or PYD -- an offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK.
Thirty-five tanks have been sent to Murşitpınar gate on the Syrian border after a mortar shell dropped into a vacant field in this neighborhood. The tanks have been deployed along the positions with their barrels pointing at Syria's Kobani town after moving along the border for a while.
Syrian Kurds have not been allowed to return back home to collect their belongings, while injured Syrian refugees have been taken to hospitals tin Suruç or into central Şanlıurfa by paramedics.
After seeing some of the Syrian refugees cars parked in the area as well as livestock - cows and sheep - that some people managed to bring, of course, other refugees wish they could return home to bring the rest of their own possessions.
