Turkey said it will facilitate the passage of Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters to cross its borders and join Syrian Kurdish forces to fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the besieged Syrian city of Kobane. During a press conference, Turkish Foreign Affairs Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, said on Monday that "Turkey opened the gates for its brothers in Kobani; around 200,000 of them are currently residing in Turkey," Anadolu News Agency reported. Masoud Barzani, the president of Iraqi Kurdistan and the head of the Peshmerga, announced a coordinated plan with the People's Protection Units (YPG), reported the Kurdish news agency Rudaw. It came after US-led coalition planes delivered weapons, ammunition and medical aid via airdrops to Kurdish forces in Kobani Sunday night.