epa04430944 A Turkish soldier looks through a telescopic lens mounted on his automatic weapon as he guards near Mursitpinar border gate at the Turkish-Syrian border, Suruc district near Sanliurfa, Turkey, 04 October 2014. Islamic State jihadists rained artillery fire a day earlier on the Kurdish enclave of Kobane near the border, as its embattled defenders appealed for air support from the US-led coalition against the extremists. The fall of Kobane - the smallest of three autonomous Kurdish cantons established last year by the PYD and allies - would give the Islamic State uncontested control of a huge stretch of Syria's border with Turkey. EPA/SEDAT SUNA