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Turkey is “paranoid” that if the Kurds win the battle for Kobani against ISIL, they may seek a Kurdish state on Turkish soil, an analyst tells Press TV.

Christopher Walker, political analyst from London, told Press TV in an interview Tuesday, “The Turks on the whole are more frightened and more enemies of the Kurds than they are of ISIL and that is because they fear that the Kurds will use any victory against ISIL to try and establish a Kurdish state inside Turkey and they are really paranoid about that.”

Britain’s Sky News said in a recent report that it has obtained documents showing that the Turkish government has stamped passports of foreign militants seeking to cross the Turkish border into Syria to join the ISIL Takfiri terrorists.

Passports from different countries were recovered in a village near Syria’s strategic town of Kobani across the Turkish border.

Commenting on the report, the analyst described Turkey as being caught red handed, saying, “This comes as confirmation of rumor that’s been widespread in the Middle East that Turkey is playing a double game and really facilitating ISIL fighters to let them in and across its border.”

Ankara prevents Turkish Kurds from crossing the border into Kobani to join the anti-ISIL battle for the town.

Walker concluded that Turkey is helping ISIL terrorists to get across because “it is in fact more worried by the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party), which is the larger Turkish underground guerilla group with which it’s been fighting a war for over 30 years.”

Kobani and its surroundings have been under attack since mid-September, with ISIL militants capturing dozens of nearby Kurdish villages.