Despite US-led airstrikes on the Syrian border town of Kobani, Kurdish forces are in desperate need of reinforcements as ISIL extremists continue their advance.<br /><br />There are calls for a humanitarian corridor to be opened between the Turkish border and Kobani to allow the wounded out and fresh supplies and fighters in. Turkey has so far refused.<br /><br />The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based group which monitors the Syrian civil war says Kurdish forces face inevitable defeat in Kobani if Turkey does not open its border to let through arms<br /><br />Turkey has been reluctant to help the Kurds after several decades battling the Tirkish Kurdish PKK party, which is listed as a terrorist group by Turkey and its Western allies.
