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Treason! Lawmaker Discovers It's Bad Idea To Accuse Erdogan Of Supplying Sarin Gas To ISIS

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Two weeks ago, CHP lawmaker Eren Erdem said he, like Moscow, will soon provide proof of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s role in the smuggling of Islamic State oil. "I have been able to establish that there is a very high probability that Berat Albayrak is linked to the supply of oil by the Daesh terrorists,” Erdem said, referencing Erdogan’s son-in-law who just happens to be the country’s energy minister. 

That wasn’t the first time Erdem has accused the Erdogan government of engaging in nefarious activities. Recall that back in October, Erdem and fellow CHP deputy Ali Seker claimed an investigation into Turkey's role in a 2013 sarin gas attack that killed more than a thousand civilians in Syria was being obstructed. 

"The MKE [Turkish Mechanical and Chemical Industry Corporation] is also an actor that is mentioned in the investigation file. Here is the indictment. All the details about how sarin was procured in Turkey and delivered to the terrorists, along with audio recordings, are inside the file," Erdem said, at a press conference held on October 21.

"Wiretapped phone conversations reveal the process of procuring the gas at specific addresses as well as the process of procuring the rockets that would fire the capsules containing the toxic gas. However, despite such solid evidence there has been no arrest in the case. Thirteen individuals were arrested during the first stage of the investigation but were later released, refuting government claims that it is fighting terrorism," he continued.

As Today’s Zaman reported at the time, “...over 1,300 people were killed in the sarin gas attack in Ghouta and several other neighborhoods near the Syrian capital of Damascus, with the West quickly blaming the regime of Bashar al-Assad and Russia claiming it was a ‘false flag’ operation aimed at making US military intervention in Syria possible.”

On the heels of Erdem’s allegations surrounding Erdogan’s role in Islamic State’s illicit oil smuggling business, the lawmaker said he intends “to carry this investigation through to the end,” to which we replied: “..we can only hope that, for the sake of exposing the truth, ‘the end’ doesn’t end up being a Turkish jail cell, or worse.”

Well sure enough, Erdem now faces “treason” charges. Here’s Today’s Zaman again

The Ankara Chief Prosecutor's Office has opened an investigation into Republican People's Party (CHP) ?stanbul deputy Eren Erdem for “treason,” following his claims on the Russia Today (RT) TV station that radical groups used Turkey as a transit route for the shipment of sarin gas.

 

Turkish media reported on Wednesday that the Ankara Chief Prosecutor's Office will send a summary of proceedings to the Ministry of Justice on Thursday. If the summary of proceedings is sent to Parliament, the process for stripping Erdem of his parliamentary immunity will begin. Erdem might be prosecuted over treason if Parliament votes in favor of the removal of his parliamentary immunity.

 

Cem Kucuk, a columnist at the pro-government Star daily, said on a program on Kanal 24 on Tuesday that Erdem's appearance on RT and his claims regarding sarin gas were “treason.” Kucuk argued that Erdem's immunity should be removed by Parliament for him to “pay for his deeds.”

For his part, Erdem repeated his contention that he's the subject of a smear campaign. “The paramilitary organization Ottoman Hearths is sharing my address [on Twitter] and plans a raid [on my house]. I am being targeted with death threats because I am patriotically opposed to something that tramples on my country's prestige,” he says. 

The charges come just two days after Erdem gave the following interview to RT in which he says ISIS "received all necessary materials to produce deadly sarin gas via Turkey." He insists there are grounds to believe a cover up is in the offing.

And so, just as Erdogan arrested Can Dundar, editor in chief of Cumhuriyet, and Erdem Gul, the newspaper’s capital correspondent in Ankara on charges of spying and aiding a terrorist organization after they published video depicting an MIT truck transporting weapons to Syria, and just as Ankara arrested the generals who stopped the truck, AKP will now try a member of the opposition for treason. 

Just another day in Erdogan's thriving, NATO-supported "democracy".

 

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Thu, 12/17/2015 - 14:33 | 6935990 arbwhore
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Hopefully he still has his email server...

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 15:03 | 6936121 RonArgent
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Thu, 12/17/2015 - 16:06 | 6936456 HowdyDoody
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The next stage beyond the Snowden effect or the Manning effect.

 

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 15:03 | 6936122 RonArgent
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Thu, 12/17/2015 - 15:03 | 6936123 RonArgent
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Thu, 12/17/2015 - 15:50 | 6936365 MrNosey
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We have allowed gangsters to call the shots for far too long, now this policy is coming home to roost!

The agenda marches on......

http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2015/12/as-events-spiral-out-of-control-its-time-to-take-a-closer-look-at-agenda-2030-video-2

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 14:33 | 6935991 ZeroPoint
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Cumhuriyet? Is that like k-Thks-Bai?

 

 

 

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 14:33 | 6935992 GhostOfDiogenes
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Wow.

So much NATO/USA.

Such democracy.

So much freedom.

So constitutional.

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 15:06 | 6936120 Mike in GA
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Erdogan's corruption, and his allowing islamic radicals a seat at the table as business partners and politically opportunistic allies against the Kurds is not lost on TPTB in NATO.  I don't know how the diplomatic process works in revoking a NATO membership but I'll bet there is a great deal of activity beneath the surface.  

Is a NATO eviction even desirable, given the fact that Turkey's army is larger than Germany's and France's combined and Erdogan's days may be numbered?  

Putin may take care of this corruptocrat without the Russian fingerprints that would necessitate NATO member country angst or, who knows? - maybe all of NATO is disbanded in view of our inability to fund Europe's defense.

This story is a long way from ending.

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 15:58 | 6936406 COSMOS
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WHat do you mean, the rest of NATO is just as bad if not worse than Turkey.

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 14:39 | 6936016 tarabel
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People need to know that bad things happen to those who meddle in the plans of el Presidente. 

//s//

V. V. Putin

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 14:43 | 6936035 PrezTrump
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who coulda seen it coming?

 

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 14:44 | 6936040 Colonel Klink
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Truth is treason in a sea of lies.

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 14:44 | 6936045 Squid Viscous
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Is that from the same batch that Assad "gassed his own people" with last year?

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 14:51 | 6936077 tuttisaluti
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Erdogan is a complete mother fucker. He will go to hell and 99 Dominas will rape him with a pineapple 

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 15:15 | 6936166 Colonel Klink
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I'd prefer they rape him with a choke pear.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choke_pear_%28torture%29

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 16:49 | 6936714 Urban Redneck
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Don't forget the Satan's Blood lube...

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 14:51 | 6936078 kaboomnomic
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Heil to DEAR LEADER... Kim Jong Erdogan!!

Now, where the heck am I?? Is this North Korea yet??

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 14:56 | 6936089 highly debtful
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Could someone please kick Erdogan out of NATO? And could NATO please try to understand that the Russian Federation isn't too excited about NATO forces edging ever closer to its borders? Perhaps NATO should try for some geopolitical empathy for a change. What if West-Germany and Austria would have witnessed a landslide election victory of the communists in the eighties and then have invited the USSR to position units of its red army near the borders with Holland, Belgium and France? I'm sure Reagan would have turned the other cheek.

Ill-intentioned imbeciles, the lot of them.

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 14:54 | 6936092 hound dog vigilante
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Which happens first...?

 

a) Turkey admitted to EU

b) EU devolves/collapses

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 14:55 | 6936098 LawsofPhysics
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Speaking truth to power has always been a risky venture...

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 15:00 | 6936104 JustObserving
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Truth is treason in an empire of lies.

No one is a bigger liar than war-criminal Erdogan

Turkey supplied the sarin that killed over 1300 Syrians in Ghouta to try to get the Nobel Prize Winner to bomb Assad into oblivion

Seymour Hersh Links Turkey to Benghazi, Syria and Sarin

The assessment of the Defense Intelligence Agency is that the sarin was supplied by Turkey to elements in Ghouta with the intent of “push[ing] Obama over the red line.” Intercepted transmissions from Turkish operators in the aftermath of the attack are jubilant, and the success of their covert mission must have seemed well in hand. Obama’s implicit call to war in the coming month was proof of that.

http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2014/05/06/seymour-hersh-links-turke...

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 14:58 | 6936107 PTR
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Reading the headline, I mistakenly thought Cameron was going after those damned domestic terrorists.

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 15:17 | 6936172 Mr. Cynic
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.........but.....Assad must go!!

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 15:20 | 6936193 Phillpots
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If Eren knows the truth. What is he waiting for!

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 15:45 | 6936334 Chris Dakota
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What people have forgotten is the Doctors Without Borders were the first to say (without proof) that Assad gassed those folks.

Skeezy French

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 16:34 | 6936624 . . . _ _ _ . . .
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True, but there was proof and an article was written documenting the debacle.

CNN had a man on to tell this side, but he could hardly speak English, had a terrible accent, they cut his time short, and he was on once... at 4am!

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 15:46 | 6936341 Sir SpeaksALot
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funny fake democracy, with 1 family being top figures in the government :)

it s a fucking elected monarchy.

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 16:00 | 6936421 COSMOS
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Kind of like the BUSH family

 

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 17:19 | 6936872 Paveway IV
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Remove kebab from premises!

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 19:19 | 6937375 Dickweed Wang
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. . . with 1 family being top figures in the government.

 

Just like the USA's (and Israel's) REAL good buddies in Saudi Arabia.  I get it . . . the USA supports criminal regimes in countries like Turkey and Saudi Arabia no matter what crimes they commit against other countries or their own people and totally vilifies a country like Russia.  Just perfect!! And totally hypocritical . . . .

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 16:05 | 6936454 Neochrome
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Clearly deserving another $3 Billion and immediate EU membership...

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 16:27 | 6936581 Super Broccoli
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isn't that "treason prosecution" a proof in itself ?

who's the treator to the nation then ?

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 16:56 | 6936737 Haager
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Treason? You're sure? It's not blasphemy?

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 17:32 | 6936953 IronForge
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It may be prudent for the "Opposition" to pass on copies of documents over to wikileaks and/or to Press 'round the World.

Shouldn't NATO, the EU(to assess more reasons to reject TRK's Membership), and the UNSC send in Investigators/Observers regarding this?  We are talking N/B/C Weapons (of Mass Destruction) here.  Even if (the slightest chance) it's being made illegally "outside" of Erdogans' Permission (presume there are batches made with consent and without consent in backstabbing deals for MOAR Money), we can't afford to let those Cannisters to be smuggled out by Arms Dealers, Terrorists, Invaders, and Criminal Organizations.

A NATO Member with NBC Weapons being made and shipped abroad to be used in an Invasion/Sabotage/FalseFlagTerror Scam. 

These are full fledged Acts of War.  There's no fracking way Article 5 can be invoked.

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 17:45 | 6936991 surf@jm
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The European Union needs to go ahead an admit Turkey......

Then they can use the Turkish brand of governance to improve their brand of governance........

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 18:59 | 6937278 Collectivism Killz
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Hmmm, what does date have in store for Erdogan. Polonium team, military coup, violent war with Russia? Inquiring minds want to know.

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 21:46 | 6937883 LiteBeeer
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This is not about the evil genius of top level persons or organizations. Do not get distracted by that. The bigger picture is ISLAM/caliphate as one of the tools that devil utilizes using a pawn in this case.

Fri, 12/18/2015 - 01:40 | 6938273 onmail1
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Puppets all today

or puppies

 

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