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NATO Member Busted Supporting ISIS … Now Declares War Against ISIS, But Instead Bombs Its Political Rival (the Main Force ...
Turkey Enabling ISIS
NATO member Turkey has been busted supporting ISIS.
The Guardian reported this week:
US special forces raided the compound of an Islamic State leader in eastern Syria in May, they made sure not to tell the neighbours.
The target of that raid, the first of its kind since US jets returned to the skies over Iraq last August, was an Isis official responsible for oil smuggling, named Abu Sayyaf. He was almost unheard of outside the upper echelons of the terror group, but he was well known to Turkey. From mid-2013, the Tunisian fighter had been responsible for smuggling oil from Syria’s eastern fields, which the group had by then commandeered. Black market oil quickly became the main driver of Isis revenues – and Turkish buyers were its main clients.
As a result, the oil trade between the jihadis and the Turks was held up as evidence of an alliance between the two.
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In the wake of the raid that killed Abu Sayyaf, suspicions of an undeclared alliance have hardened. One senior western official familiar with the intelligence gathered at the slain leader’s compound said that direct dealings between Turkish officials and ranking Isis members was now “undeniable”.
“There are hundreds of flash drives and documents that were seized there,” the official told the Observer. “They are being analysed at the moment, but the links are already so clear that they could end up having profound policy implications for the relationship between us and Ankara.”
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However, Turkey has openly supported other jihadi groups, such as Ahrar al-Sham, which espouses much of al-Qaida’s ideology, and Jabhat al-Nusra, which is proscribed as a terror organisation by much of the US and Europe. “The distinctions they draw [with other opposition groups] are thin indeed,” said the western official. “There is no doubt at all that they militarily cooperate with both.”
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One Isis member says the organisation remains a long way from establishing a self-sustaining economy across the area of Syria and Iraq it controls. “They need the Turks. I know of a lot of cooperation and it scares me,” he said. “I don’t see how Turkey can attack the organisation too hard. There are shared interests.”
While the Guardian is one of Britain’s leading newspapers, many in the alternative press have long pointed out Turkey’s support for ISIS.
And experts, Kurds, and Joe Biden have accuses Turkey of enabling ISIS.
Has Turkey Changed Its Ways?
On Tuesday, Turkey proclaimed that it will now help to fight ISIS.
Don’t buy it …
Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson – former chief of staff to Colin Powell, and now distinguished adjunct professor of Government and Public Policy at William & Mary – asked yesterday:
What is [Turkish president] Erdogan’s ultimate purpose? He hates Assad. He’d love to bring him down. Is that why he’s doing this?
There’s also the Kurds …
As Time Magazine pointed out in June:
Ethnic Kurds—who on Tuesday scored their second and third significant victories over ISIS in the space of eight days—are by far the most effective force fighting ISIS in both Iraq and Syria.
And yet Turkey is trying to destroy the Kurds. Time writes:
Since [Turkey announced that it was joining the war against ISIS] it has arrested more than 1,000 people in Turkey and carried out waves of air raids in neighboring Syria and Iraq. But most of those arrests and air strikes, say Kurdish leaders, have hit Kurdish and left wing groups, not ISIS.
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Kurds are an ethnic minority that live in parts of Syria, Iraq, Turkey and Iran. They have been persecuted for decades — from Turkey’s suppression of Kurdish identity and banning of Kurdish language to Saddam Hussein’s use of chemical weapons on Kurdish communities. Their leaders, from the numerous different parties and rebel groups that represent them, have long sought an independent Kurdish state encompassing that territory and have fought against their respective governments to try to achieve that.
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Hoshang Waziri, a political analyst based in Erbil, says the Kurds’ recent territorial gains in Syria along Turkey’s border and their increasing political legitimacy in the eyes of the West, have made the Kurds a bigger threat to Turkey than ISIS. “The fear of the Turkish state started with the Kurdish defeat of ISIS in Tel Abyad,” says Waziri.
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“The image in the West of the Kurds as a reliable ally on the ground is terrifying for Turkey,” says Waziri. “So before it’s too late, Turkey waged its war — not against ISIS, but against the PKK.”
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Some see the war against ISIS simply as a cover for an attack on Kurdish groups. Of the more than 1,000 people Turkey has arrested in security sweeps in recent days, 80% are Kurdish, associated either with the PKK or the non-violent Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), says ?brahim Ayhan, a member of parliament for the HDP.
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Ayhan says the AKP needs a state of “chaos” to perusade voters that it is the only bulwark against chaos. As of yet no new government has been formed in Turkey and if that doesn’t happen in the next few weeks, new elections will be called. By that time Ayhad fears many of the leaders of his HDP party will be in jail and some even worry the HDP will be outlawed. At the same time, Erdo?an and his AKP hope they will have shown only they can defend Turkey from internal and external threats.
The Wall Street Journal reports:
Turkey’s military activity against Islamic State does not stem from sudden realizations about threats from ISIS but appears designed to elicit international support for its fight against the Kurds.
The Kurdish Workers’ Party, known as the PKK, was locked in a bloody war with the Turkish state from the mid-1980s until 2013. The cease-fire has, for all intents and purposes, been destroyed. Turkey is battling both ISIS and the PKK under the guise of fighting terrorism. Yet Turkish attempts to conflate ISIS and the PKK–even in the wake of the suicide bombing in a Kurdish border town that killed 32 young people–effectively ask people to overlook some salient facts:
The Kurds are Islamic State’s ideological opposites. The Kurds have been fighting ISIS in Syria and Iraq for some time; in particular, the Kurdish People’s Protection Unit (YPG) in northern Syria has been among the most effective forces at repelling ISIS efforts to take control of the Syrian-Turkish border. Kurdish military resistance in Syria and, to a lesser extent, the Kurdish autonomous government in Iraq have shouldered the lion’s share of the ground conflict against Islamic State, standing their ground at high cost and with limited support from the Western coalition.
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A declaration of a state of emergency in Turkey would give the Justice and Development Party (or AKP), which lost its parliamentary majority in June elections, more flexibility to crack down on political opponents such as the Kurdish majority People’s Democratic Party. More than 1,300 people have been detained recently under the guise of cracking down on domestic PKK and ISIS elements in Turkey.
The AKP has declared the peace process with the Kurdish separatists dead and is trying to discredit the only recognized political representatives of the Turkish left and the Kurdish population; the Kurdish People’s Democratic Party won a 13% share of the Turkish parliament in the June elections–a sign of its rising popularity not only among Kurds but also with increasingly disgruntled Turkish liberals.
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If a governing coalition isn’t formed, early elections will be held. The AKP appears to be hoping for that–under the thinking that a majority of voters would seek to maintain the status quo in a time of uncertainty and potential civil war, and that AKP’s standing in parliament would, in turn, be strengthened.
So Turkey isn’t really going after ISIS … instead, the ruling party is going after its main political threat – the Kurds – and continuing its long-term effort to overthrow Syria’s Assad.
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Moar political contango.
Pity those turks can't tango with the kurds.
It would avoid the region ending up as backwardian option of turds and kurks.
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Americans who claim to be Christians are the staunchest military and political ally of the proud Turks who killed or sent into exile the Armenians, who are the first Christian nation of the world.
God bless America.
I was going to make a comment here, but decided not to step in a minefield!
surely, this chaos is good for creating hordes of refugees...
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@ Chumbawamba
Yes we are truly blessed with EVIL in our western DeMOCKraceeeees. Thanks be to Allah that Israeli doctors patched up the wounded and got them back on double shifts.
Newmark is really American.
As opposed to this NATO member's comment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2NkjNvwuaU
look up the name / connection between "Brooks Newmark MP" ( UK ) and "General idris" in Turkey..... do a search with both names & see what you come up with... the plot thickens all the way to Westminster & D.C ( same power bases of Zionist ruled west)
Brook Newmark was having meetings with Idris to asure him UK jets would be bombing syria before the end of 2014.... so ISIS ( UK, US & Israel rougue army) could make sure of the air power to rought ASAD.
This sure is one huge dirty smelly mess.... with the zionist filthy grubby mitts all over it. Don't believe me, look up the donmeh
http://www.atajew.com/, its no different to knowing thata old parts of the saudi regime were part Zionist / jewish by blood, hence the "peace pact between saudi & Israel....
Time for bed me thinks
The main hive is Vatican City; there they sacrifice children and have orgies & eat & have sex with corpses...not kidding.
NATO member, NATO is broke and needs a new chump other than Greece to sacrifice their economy with weapons imports and war liabilities rather than productive stuff like coal fired electrical power plants and hydroelectric dams and roads and sewage plants.
Invest in Hellfire missiles!
Lockheed and Raytheon need another bailout!
Turkey was responsible for the genocide of over a million Armenians, and still won't admit to it.
No surprise here. We keep behaving as though these people share our values.
America has killed 47,000,000 innocents since 1945 for the MIC, banksters, foreign governments, etc, etc. I don't see them admitting it. Nor do I see one American citizen doing anything about stopping the carnage.
Are you seriously condemning the current population of Turkey (that's about 70 million) and/or its current gov't for something that allegedly happened almost 100 years ago? ahahaha :-)
Your use of the word "allegedly" tells me all I need to know about you and your position on the matter.
I wasn't there... how about you? Did you see it..?
Not only them. We won't admit it. USwill not describe that act as genocide.
our values? whose values are you referring to? those of the white anglo that committed genocide on the native american indian? those of the US government that has slaughtered who-knows-how-many all around the world in the last 50 years? please, we live in a glass house.
They are Muslims. What did you expect?
shish kebabs !
led by Donmeh Jews at the time.
shithead.
Muslims are people and people are sinners and all sinners need the living and true Savior; God commands ALL men to repent and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ...ignore that King and you will die in your sin.
crocodile, what a croc. muslims are filthy perverted animals. barbaric cult created by a filthy pedophile
Whew! I am in the last bastion of the un-pc. I can breathe!
You are a filthy purveyor of bullshit and innuendo Ms. Bama Watson. Credibility = zero.
That likely true as long as you believe in it.
"NATO Member Busted Supporting ISIS … Now Declares War Against ISIS, But Instead Bombs Its Political Rival (the Main Force ..."
So the US? How do we stop it?
We are in so many deals with the Devil, one more makes no difference.
On the first day of the supposed Turkish bombing of ISIS, the Turks launched 48 air sorties against the Kurdish PKK and 3 agaisnt ISIS positions. And we see that Turkey provides free passage for ISIS recruits accorss its borders to resupply ISIS.
So we know this about Turkey, that Erdogan's Muslim Brotherhood is aligned with ISIS, but it helps to have yet another of the many smoking guns.
Or does it help to know even more than we did before? What confidance do you have that this present OBAM administration has any will to deal appropriately with this confirmation of Erdogan's role?
I have no confidence that this TERRIBLE president will do anything other than look for all the many ways that he can to pretend that this is just a diplomatic issue, something that words with negotiators will solve.
The USA and NATO should be drafting language to isolate Turkey and to levy sancitons on Erdogan and his Muslim Brotherhood party members...but this will not be happening. Obama is the second worst President the USA has ever had after GW Bush.
everybody hates the Kurds. the Kurds want to carve an independent country out of part of Turkey. W Bush called the Kurds, the enemy. the Turks and the Iranians worked togehter in an attack on Kurdish fighters. the Kurds sit on top of a lot of oil. the Turks run the same kind of government as Syria, Sharia law. progressives in Turkey want to liberalize (students protested over a beer ban on campus) guys like Obama naturally want to change these things. Turkey is in the middle, ISIS is even more of a fundamenatlist regime than the Sharia, but ISIS is less of a threat than binge drinking college students and Kurdish separatists.
Sorry dude, but you're dead wrong re: Turkey and Sharia. Almost all of Turkey is Sunni (Hanifi, actually). Sharia plays absolutely no role in Turkey's judicial system. I don't know where you get your "facts" from, but it's bullshit pure and simple.
ZATO created ISIS.
A Kurdistan is the great fear. http://www.kurdistan.nu/
Cui bono and cui malo provides a better understanding than words said. ISIS is a creature of the US, Israel, Turkey, Saudis and other Arab monarchies that they now hope to control by driving a nail into its head.
The stupid believe they can control evil.
Mr. Washington, it's funny how the US G-men stationed at Incirlik are somehow overlooked in all of this? But hey, it's them nasty Turks I tell you! Look! Look they're helping ISIS! An organisation created, funded and maintained by the US and its allies to fight proxy wars and be the latest boogey-man. Same shit, different day. It's just too funny :-)
Not really, since the focus of the article is Turkey's complicity with ISIS.
GW's got a load of articles showing US support and training of ISIS as well. You would know that if you were up to speed.
This is a current event article revealing new proofs of facts.
Don't shoot the messenger because you were late to the party.
Late to the party? Up to speed? hahaha Son, get your head out of your ass!
It's great to see yet another US finger pointed at yet another country with blame and shame rhetoric - can you say hypocracy, son? It's got nothing to do with the messenger, it's the message (again) that's the problem.
Hey, son - can you spell hypocrisy?
Gee son, can you see the bigger picture? No? Well fuck me, open your eyes boy! You might actually see what's what. Just a thought...
Gee, fel.temp., is that a Godzilla Hummingbird?
Sure, if you stand underneath it and it shits on you, it's considered lucky in some cultures.
Global warming made them do it.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/07/31/wikileaks-usa-spying-on-japanese-c...
Haha.
What a surprise that NSA spies on everyone and everything, everywhere.
You can imagine my shock that Japan is ambivalent about CO2 controls since they literally have bigger fish to fry at Fukushima.
I am sick of all this war by all these government fuckers.
then vanish
Erdogan is dreaming of a neo Ottoman Empire. It appears Turkey is enlisting the help of NATO (read US & EU taxpayers) to facilitate the acquisition of new territory in Iraq and Syria with the Kurds and Assad/Syria being collateral damage. The end result will be another failed state in the ME.
I'm going to venture that Mr. Erdogan is content with his borders as long as he can wipe out the Kurds within a 500 mile area around them.
Handing over a sizeable chunk of Turkey to an independent state of Kurdistan is not on his things-to-do list.
The US invaded Syria 3-4 years ago with CIA para military, US SF and Private military contractors this was at the prompting of John McCain and Ms. South Carolina Lindsay Graham. This was done despite the opposition of the U.S. citizenry.
ISIS is a creation of the U.S. to fight a proxy war. Nothing more
The US didn't create ISIS.
They just made them highly effective with arms and training.
Maybe, in retrospect, a little too effective to keep em down on the farm. Trying to control armed Muslims is like trying to herd cats.
They always seem to have other plans.
Interesting. It puts this into a wider context also:
So:
Turkey's current leadership does not see itself as a part of "The West", within the above statement.
Turkey is implicitly blaming France itself for concocting the attacks in January.
Turkey wants to deny that the French citizens performing the attacks were ISIS aligned Muslims.
Turkey wants to deny that Muslim massacres ever occur.
Turkey says it attacks ISIS, but attacks Kurds instead.
Turkey wants to mollify and negate US objection via simultaneously granting the Pentagon capability to attack in Syria from Turkish airbase.
Turkey feels it can abuse the alliance relationships because of the other regional tensions and conflicts, to the North, South and East of Turkey, so they figure the US and NATO will go along.
i.e. wink at Turkish hypocrisy and sustained pursuit of warfare in Syria and Iraq, and ignore their double-dealing with sectarian fundamentalists engaged in trying to mount concerted attacks within western countries. From his first day in office Ergogan has undermined and systematically deconstructed secular liberal society in Turkey. He purged it from the military's ranks and police first, to make sure he was not ousted before his fundamentalist agenda had run its course.