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## Video: Turkey - ISIS Surrounds Kobani

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_Published 2014-10-13. Turkey - ISIS Surrounds Kobani_


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## Transcript

If Kabani falls to ISIS, they'll be Turkey's new brutal neighbor along a hundred kilometers of frontier. And nowhere is leaving next door to ISIS begun to seem so normal as in Aikchakale. ISIS's totem of fear truly enormous here. The Turkish military are asking us to move away here the ISIS flag so large in such full view so close to their positions. Boys say they know what to do if ISIS tried to cross. One older resident said off camera, at least their civil war's violence doesn't spill over anymore since ISIS took the town of Televiad about a year ago. Coalition airstrikes have been reported here recently, but more visible is the humdrum of life under the self- declared caliphate.

These fighters, off to help fix a car. Girls play, uncovered. Women wear the niqab. You can't see the fear ISIS rules with. From this far away. These two men have come to the border, it seems, for a crafty cigarette. Smoking is banned under ISIS, so we've hidden their faces. [ FOREIGN ] We say hello. They wave back. We ask how life is. Good, he shouts. True only to a point, as ISIS might kill us all if we crossed over to talk more. The Turkish army aren't happy. How could they be? Life here darkened perhaps for a generation.

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