Posted on 11/27/2015 9:51:59 PM PST by Jyotishi
Turkey is a beautiful land, rich in resources, with many highly intelligent and warm people. It also happens to have a President who seems intent on destroying his once-proud nation. More and more details are coming to light revealing that the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, variously known as ISIS, IS or Daesh, is being fed and kept alive by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish President and by his Turkish intelligence service, including MIT, the Turkish CIA. Turkey, as a result of Erdogan's pursuit of what some call a Neo-Ottoman Empire fantasies that stretch all the way to China, Syria and Iraq, threatens not only to destroy Turkey but much of the Middle East if he continues on his present path.
In October 2014 US Vice President Joe Biden told a Harvard gathering that Erdogan's regime was backing ISIS with "hundreds of millions of dollars and thousands of tons of weapons..." http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/05/politics/isis-biden-erdogan-apology/ Biden later apologized clearly for tactical reasons to get Erdogan's permission to use Turkey's Incirlik Air Base for airstrikes against ISIS in Syria, but the dimensions of Erdogan's backing for ISIS since revealed is far, far more than Biden hinted.
ISIS militants were trained by US, Israeli and now it emerges, by Turkish special forces at secret bases in Konya Province inside the Turkish border to Syria, over the past three years. http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/09/12/how-the-west-created-the-islamic-state/ Erdogan's involvement in ISIS goes much deeper. At a time when Washington, Saudi Arabia and even Qatar appear to have cut off their support for ISIS, they remaining amazingly durable. The reason appears to be the scale of the backing from Erdogan and his fellow neo-Ottoman Sunni Islam Prime Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu.
Nice Family Business
The prime source of money feeding ISIS these days is sale of Iraqi oil from the Mosul region oilfields where they maintain a stronghold. The son of Erdogan it seems is the man who makes the export sales of ISIS-controlled oil possible.
Bilal Erdogan owns several maritime companies. He has allegedly signed contracts with European operating companies to carry Iraqi stolen oil to different Asian countries. The Turkish government buys Iraqi plundered oil which is being produced from the Iraqi seized oil wells. Bilal Erdogan's maritime companies own special wharfs in Beirut and Ceyhan ports that are transporting ISIS' smuggled crude oil in Japan-bound oil tankers. http://awdnews.com/top-news/turkish-president%E2%80%99s-daughter-heads-a-covert-medical-corps-to-help-isis-injured-members,-reveals-a-disgruntled-nurse
Gürsel Tekin vice-president of the Turkish Republican Peoples' Party, CHP, declared in a recent Turkish media interview, "President Erdogan claims that according to international transportation conventions there is no legal infraction concerning Bilal's illicit activities and his son is doing an ordinary business with the registered Japanese companies, but in fact Bilal Erdogan is up to his neck in complicity with terrorism, but as long as his father holds office he will be immune from any judicial prosecution." Tekin adds that Bilal's maritime company doing the oil trades for ISIS, BMZ Ltd, is "a family business and president Erdogan's close relatives hold shares in BMZ and they misused public funds and took illicit loans from Turkish banks." http://awdnews.com/top-news/turkish-president%E2%80%99s-daughter-heads-a-covert-medical-corps-to-help-isis-injured-members,-reveals-a-disgruntled-nurse
In addition to son Bilal's illegal and lucrative oil trading for ISIS, Sümeyye Erdogan, the daughter of the Turkish President apparently runs a secret hospital camp inside Turkey just over the Syrian border where Turkish army trucks daily being in scores of wounded ISIS Jihadists to be patched up and sent back to wage the bloody Jihad in Syria, according to the testimony of a nurse who was recruited to work there until it was discovered she was a member of the Alawite branch of Islam, the same as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad who Erdogan seems hell-bent on toppling. http://awdnews.com/top-news/turkish-president%E2%80%99s-daughter-heads-a-covert-medical-corps-to-help-isis-injured-members,-reveals-a-disgruntled-nurse
Turkish citizen Ramazan Basol, captured this month by Kurdish People's Defence Units,YPG, as he attempted to join ISIS from Konya province, told his captors that said he was sent to ISIS by the 'Ismail Aga Sect,' a strict Turkish Islam sect reported to be tied to Recep Erdogan. Basol said the sect recruits members and provides logistic support to the radical Islamist organization. He added that the Sect gives jihad training in neighborhoods of Konya and sends those trained here to join ISIS gangs in Syria. http://awdnews.com/top-news/captured-terrorist-interview-with-sect-in-turkey-recruiting-members-for-isis
According to French geopolitical analyst, Thierry Meyssan, Recep Erdogan "organised the pillage of Syria, dismantled all the factories in Aleppo, the economic capital, and stole the machine-tools. Similarly, he organised the theft of archeological treasures and set up an international market in Antioch...with the help of General Benoît Puga, Chief of Staff for the Elysée, he organised a false-flag operation intended to provoke the launching of a war by the Atlantic Alliance – the chemical bombing of la Ghoutta in Damascus, in August 2013." http://www.voltairenet.org/article188337.html
Meyssan claims that the Syria strategy of Erdogan was initially secretly developed in coordination with former French Foreign Minister Alain Juppé and Erdogan's then Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, in 2011, after Juppe won a hesitant Erdogan to the idea of supporting the attack on traditional Turkish ally Syria in return for a promise of French support for Turkish membership in the EU. France later backed out, leaving Erdogan to continue the Syrian bloodbath largely on his own using ISIS. http://www.voltairenet.org/article188337.html
Gen. John R. Allen, an opponent of Obama's Iran peace strategy, now US diplomatic envoy coordinating the coalition against the Islamic State, exceeded his authorized role after meeting with Erdogan and "promised to create a « no-fly zone » ninety miles wide, over Syrian territory, along the whole border with Turkey, supposedly intended to help Syrian refugees fleeing from their government, but in reality to apply the « Juppé-Wright plan ». The Turkish Prime Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, revealed US support for the project on the TV channel A Haber by launching a bombing raid against the PKK." Meyssan adds. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/28/world/middleeast/turkey-and-us-agree-on-plan-to-clear-isis-from-strip-of-northern-syria.html?ref=topics&_r=0
There are never winners in war and Erdogan's war against Syria's Assad demonstrates that in bold. Turkey and the world deserve better. Ahmet Davutoglu's famous "Zero Problems With Neighbors" foreign policy has been turned into massive problems with all neighbors due to the foolish ambitions of Erdogan and his gang.http://journal-neo.org/
- F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a degree in politics from Princeton University and is a best-selling author on oil and geopolitics, exclusively for the online magazine "New Eastern Outlook". http://journal-neo.org/
Turkey is Muslim slime. 99.8% muslim. Erdogan is the worst of the worst. Hopefully, Russia will drop Erdogan like a bag of dirt. I’d be OK with a Russian cruise missile into his private residence.
Scratch a little deeper and you will no doubt find the Saudis and probably the Obama administration as well. Is it all about pipelines? Or about installing some kind of strict sunni government beholden to our "friends" the Saudis? I don't know. But there is no doubt many, including Obama, believe ISIS can be managed for the goal of overthrowing Assad.
The Turkish obama.
They were there to procure weapons.
obama puts muslims way before our country.
I have NO DOUBT ISIS is being helped by Turkey and us and the Sauds.
It is a proxy war with Russia. and it disgusts me. I know what putin is, but right now he is not our main problem and if I were him I would send forces to syria too, well knowing Turkey has delusions of grandeur of a Muslim empire.
Usually, I’m up to par on current events but for the life of me, I can’t figure out what is going on with the Turkey/Syria/Ukraine/Russia drama. I don’t know who the good guys are, the bad guys, or what to make of it. There are a lot of players and a lot of upheaval, with more on the way, it would seem.
I feel the same frustration. Is my own country (or its government anyway) a "good guy?" Or what is the hidden agenda that is making everything seem to tentative and murky?
Just what the hell is Turkey doing in NATO at this point in time? Time for them to be drummed out.
Turkey is a mixed-up deal.
Around two decades ago, I remember this episode unfolding at the US base in Turkey. They had this new NCO arrive with his wife....they were both heavily into Islam. The wife wanted to do the full dress-up deal....with the burqa. The Turkish guards wouldn’t let her exit the base...saying that this was unacceptable garb in the local community beyond the gate.
So, it was a shocker to the husband and wife....Islam-lite was the preferred deal with a majority of Turks. I think if you walk around Istanbul and look at clothing styles of women, the majority don’t wear burqas or conservative style clothing. In fact, I’d take a guess that less than one-percent wear burqas....at least in that urban area.
If you go and hang out at the various resorts along the southside of the country.....you don’t see any real evidence of Islam being practiced.
It’s the middle east, there are no clean hands there.
Obama has us hip deep in this crap and will probably get us in deeper.
Taking old alliances into consideration, Russia is probably the closest thing to a good guy playing this game.
They have ties to Syria that go back to the early cold war days.
Although he was no fan of the dictators that used to run the countries, he said they kept everyone on a tight leash in order to keep what little peace can be kept in an Islamic state.
Careful what you wish for. Turkey is a Nato member state, and the treaty requires that the US to treat such an attack as tantamount to an attack on US sovereign soil: “an attack on one is an attack on all.” Whether the Turkish leader is a jerk does not affect the US government’s treaty obligations.
Nato should have been disbanded in 1991, but it was instead expanded.
Where else could the ISIS-controlled Iraqi oil possibly go? It’s really a no-brainer: it is transported by tanker truck to Turkey. Look at the location of the Batman and Ceyhan refineries.
Certainly the Syrians, Iraqis, Jordanians, and Iranians are neither purchasing or allowing trans-shipment of ISIS-controlled oil. Turkey is the only destination for ISIS-controlled oil.
The two major cities ISIS holds firmly could be leveled to nothing in one day. They remain untouched.
Much of what he says puzzles him too. He thinks the regional instability after the removal of dictators and the Arab Spring shtick, is for new western money grabbers who have been setting up shop as arms merchants, oil movers, bribery for passage, and contract Jihadi thugs. The salesmen are folks like Sid Blumenthal with loose political ties to both the Clintons and the Bush families.
From what I understand, crude oil is being smuggled out of Syria into Turkey by the ISIS. ISIS is using the revenue from the oil to fund their military operations. Russia knows that if they destroy the oil tankers trucking oil out of Syria, it destroys ISIS ability to fund their operations. So, Russian jets are hitting these trucks along Turkey’s border. Turkey will try to shoot down Russia’s jets if they can. ISIS oil into Turkey benefits Turkey too. It is the old “follow the money” thing.
Holy Jihad Batman!
Seems like Turkey committed the first act of war.
Obama needs to be arrested immediately for aiding the enemy.
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