Turkey to allow access of 200 Iraqi Peshmerga fighters to fight IS militants in Syria's Kobane

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reportedly said that an agreement has been reached for 200 Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters to pass through Turkey and join the Syrian Kurdish forces battling the Islamic State (IS) in the Syrian town of Kobane.

The Syrian Kurdish army had refused to deploy the Peshmerga troops earlier but Erdogan said on Thursday that a deal reinforcing the deployment has been reached, reported the CNN.

However, the report quoted an aide to the minister for Peshmerga in Iraq's Kurdish Regional Government as saying that the talks are going on and the decisions on numbers and timing of the deployment are still away.

The technical discussions involve the United States, Turkey, the Syrian Kurds and the KRG in Iraq, he said.

Meanwhile, fierce clashes continued between Kurdish militia groups and IS militants in the northern part of Kobane that is located on the Syrian-Turkish border.