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261 individuals from Kobane who have been detained and kept in a sports complex in Suruç district faced police tear gas as they attempted to break out their captivity. Detainees include around 20 journalists.

Suphi Nejat Ağırnaslı, a sociology graduate from Turkey’s prestigious Bosporus University, has lost life in Kobane at the age of 30. He was fighting against ISIS with the alias Paramaz Kızılbaş.

“Helping out Kobane would also mean helping the humanity,” wrote Kurdish-Iranian director Bahman Ghobadi in his open to letter to PM Davutoğlu.

6 governors in Turkey's Kurdish-populated cities issued curfew in the following cities/districts until a second notice: Diyarbakır, Batman, Dargeçit, Derik, Kızıltepe, Nusaybin, Mazıdağı and Savur due to clashes between police and demonstrators over the Kobane protests.

A group of women were detained after blocking Istanbul’s Bosporus Bridge with a banner saying “Parliamentary motion and support to ISIS mean war and massacre of women. You don’t make peace that way”.

Various NGOs and political parties in Turkey joined a watch-duty to protest the ISIS attacks in Kobane, Syria.

HDP deputy Ertuğrul Kürkçü told bianet that scores of people crossed the border for solidarity as ISIS attacks intensified in Kobane.

Media professional organizations Journalists Union of Turkey (TGS) and DİSK-affiliated Basın-İş condemned the intervention of police forces to media workers in Suruç and Kobane.

HDP’s Urfa province deputy İbrahim Ayhan told bianet that their request to make a joint aid campaign with the local governor’s office officials and AFAD has been rejected, saying that their is an urgent need for food and tents.