Complete the passage: pick from possible candidates.

To understand why Kobane is doomed, you only have to stand on a nearby hillside and watch as the Islamic State maniacs tighten their grip. A few hundred yards away, the besieged town was in flames again yesterday as the jihadis fired mortar bombs into densely-packed neighbourhoods. Every explosive thud and pillar of smoke signifies yet more deaths, as the men, women and children of the stricken Syrian frontier town desperately fight to the last. It is a deeply uneasy feeling to witness this life-and-death struggle against a terrorist state while standing in Turkey, a country that regards itself as European.

The aerial bombardment on Kobane continued throughout the day while

OPTIONS:
- European on the Turkish side of the border could only watch on as they kin were killed in the clashes with ISIS militants
- ISIS on the Turkish side of the border could only watch on as they kin were killed in the clashes with ISIS militants
- Islamic State on the Turkish side of the border could only watch on as they kin were killed in the clashes with ISIS militants
- Jamie Wiseman on the Turkish side of the border could only watch on as they kin were killed in the clashes with ISIS militants
- Kobane on the Turkish side of the border could only watch on as they kin were killed in the clashes with ISIS militants
- Kurds on the Turkish side of the border could only watch on as they kin were killed in the clashes with ISIS militants
- Sam Greenhill on the Turkish side of the border could only watch on as they kin were killed in the clashes with ISIS militants
- Syrian on the Turkish side of the border could only watch on as they kin were killed in the clashes with ISIS militants
- Turkey on the Turkish side of the border could only watch on as they kin were killed in the clashes with ISIS militants
- Turkish on the Turkish side of the border could only watch on as they kin were killed in the clashes with ISIS militants


Kurds on the Turkish side of the border could only watch on as they kin were killed in the clashes with ISIS militants