Uncertain Future for Kobane Prisoners: Turkey's Border War (Dispatch 3)

Subscribe to VICE News here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE-News In mid-September, Islamic State militants launched an offensive to seize Kobane, a predominantly Kurdish town in Syria just across the border from Turkey. In the following weeks, Turkey closed its border, leaving thousands of civilians stuck inside the active war zone, trying to get past the tightly controlled crossings. On October 5, 274 Kurds from Kobane were arrested at the Turkish border and held in a large room at a police station in the Turkish village of Suruc. Authorities have not given the people arrested — including many women and children — a reason for their detention, except to say they are suspected of being members of the YPG, the Kurdish fighters defending Kobane from the Islamic State. VICE News visited Suruc to find out the status of the prisoners and when they would be released, only to learn they are being held indefinitely. We spoke via video chat with a prisoner who described the conditions in the facility, and visited his family to discuss their unknown destiny. Watch Dispatch 1: http://bit.ly/ZGydZn Watch Dispatch 2: http://bit.ly/1xWDoQM "Britain's Border War: Migrant Crisis in Calais" - http://bit.ly/1BXT7PY Check out the VICE News beta for more: http://vicenews.com Follow VICE News here: Facebook:   / vicenews   Twitter:   / vicenews   Tumblr:   / vicenews   Instagram:   / vicenews