Kurds in Turkey have welcomed a convoy of heavily armed Kurdish peshmerga fighters arriving at the Habur border gate on the Turkish-Iraqi border, near the town of Silopi. Turkey has bowed to pressure to allow Kurdish forces sent from neighbouring Iraq to cross its border and reinforce the defence of the besieged town of Kobane, following a decision that was part of, what was most likely, a deal with the Americans - who dropped arms to the Kurdish forces at the same time.
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