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Syrian Kurds accuse Turkey of aiding sarin gas delivery to rebels after fresh chemical attacks
10/03/2016
In an interview with RT, a spokesman for the Kurdish YPG militia accused Turkey of providing a clear transit route for the chemical weapons that were deployed against them near the city of Aleppo on Tuesday. Syrian anti-government militants “took advantage of the ceasefire” to launch attacks against a Kurdish-controlled area near Aleppo in northern Syria, Redur Xelil told RT.
The attackers targeted a civilian district of what was once Syria’s biggest city, and has since become a key battleground. According to Xelil, the shells emitted an “unnatural smell” and “yellow smoke” upon impact, indicating that chemical weapons were involved. “Our sources inside the rebel groups have confirmed that toxic substances were used. We also have verified information that sarin gas was delivered to them from Turkey. All signs point to the fact that these factions were using banned weapons, but we cannot access the launching area, as it is located on the front between the Turkish and rebel forces,” Xelil told RT by Skype from Rojava in Syria.
Kurdish deputies in the Turkish parliament have previously accused Ankara of supplying Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) and other jihadist groups inside Syria with chemical weapons, which are used both in their fight against the Syrian government and to pin responsibility for their deployment on the regime of President Bashar Assad. Tuesday’s attack, which also involved phosphorus, did not result in any severe casualties.
“This attack was a failure, but this doesn’t mean that there won’t be another one. We are convinced the enemy has improvised shells containing phosphorus and sarin gas,” said Xelil. Last month, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) accused IS of using chemical weapons against Kurdish forces throughout 2015. Reports emerged on Wednesday revealing that the jihadist group had launched a new chemical attack on the Kurdish village of Zaza in northern Iraq, in which more than 40 civilians suffered chemical burns and lung damage.
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Turkish Army shells foreign journalists in Latakia
By News Desk
01/03/2016
A group of foreign journalists came under a terrorist attack in the northeastern countryside of Lattakia, a source on the ground told SANA on Tuesday. The source said the attack was caused by artillery shelling from across the Turkish side and took place while the journalists were touring Kensabba area, 60 km northeast of Lattakia city, to which the army and the popular defense groups restored security on February 18th.
Later, a military source dismissed the attack as “a breach of the cessation of hostilities,” saying it is evidence of the extent of the Turkish regime’s involvement in supporting terrorist groups and inciting them to torpedo the agreement. 4 journalists from Russia, China, Bulgaria and Canada were injured due to the attack.
Meanwhile, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said the attack was caused by 8 artillery shells that came from the Turkish territories. Konashenkov said the journalists were evacuated from the site and that the injured were given the necessary medical assistance. The group consisted of 33 journalists from Bulgaria, Greece, Germany, the United States, China, Russia, and Canada. SANA
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'WE BOTH ARE TURKS, BRO': TURKEY-IS PHONE CONVERSATION LEAKED
23.02.16
Wiretapped phone conversations between Islamic State (IS) militants
and the Turkish intelligence have been leaked to confirm the suspected
secret collaboration between the two.
According to the Turkish Cumhuriyet, the conversations took place
close to the Turkey-Syria border.
The interlocutors reportedly exchanged messages in a very friendly
tone, referring to each other as "bro".
The leaked records also reveal that members of the terrorist group
and Turkish intelligence officers meet at times on the border.
The IS members are Turks too, the Turkish publication says, quoting a
Turkish militant affiliated with the group as saying, "You are a Turk,
bro, so am I; you are a Muslim, and so I am I."
Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said he has fears
that the Islamic State is in secret talks with Turkey.
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Israeli defence minister accuses Turkey of buying IS oil
BBC
Israel's defence minister has accused Turkey of buying oil from the so-called Islamic State group, thereby funding the militants' activities.
Speaking in Athens, Moshe Yaalon said IS had "enjoyed Turkish money for oil for a very, very long period of time".
Turkey denies permitting IS smuggling, and the US recently rejected Russian allegations that Turkish government officials were in league the militants.
IS has captured swathes of Syria and Iraq, including operational oil fields.
"It's up to Turkey, the Turkish government, the Turkish leadership, to decide whether they want to be part of any kind of cooperation to fight terrorism," Mr Yaalon told reporters after a meeting with his Greek counterpart.
"This is not the case so far. As you know, Daesh [Islamic State] enjoyed Turkish money for oil for a very, very long period of time. I hope that it will be ended."
Mr Yaalon also alleged that Turkey had "permitted jihadists to move from Europe to Syria and Iraq and back".
US state department officials last month rejected Russian allegations of Turkish government involvement but a state department spokesman said IS oil was being smuggled into Turkey via middlemen.
Efforts by Israel and Turkey to repair damaged ties already hit a setback this month over demands for compensation for the deaths of 10 Turkish activists on an aid ship in 2010.
The Israeli navy had raided a flotilla of ships trying to break Israel's blockade of Gaza.
Senior Israeli and Turkish officials met in December to try to repair relations, raising hopes of progress in negotiations to import Israeli natural gas.Leave a comment:
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Captured ISIS fighter says 'trained in Turkey, ISIS thinks it’s safer here than Syria'
Published time: 28 Dec, 2015
RT
Turkey is training Islamic State terrorists in a camp disguised as a training ground for the Free Syrian Army, a 20-year-old jihadist captured by the Kurdish YPG told Sputnik. The prisoner said Ankara’s help to the “moderate” Syrian opposition is not as innocent as portrayed.
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Captured by the Kurdish People’s Protection Unit (YPG) fighters in Northern Syria in November, Abdurrahman Abdulhadi, a Syrian national-turned Daesh (Islamic State) fighter, says he was trained in Turkey before receiving his first assignment with Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).
The YPG maintains external security in the three Democratic Union Party (PYD) run areas, and is fighting Islamist groups, primarily Jabhat al-Nusra and IS. The PYD, an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Turkey, has effectively been ruling parts of Syria after government troops were forced to withdraw from the areas in 2012. With special permission from the local Kurdish authorities, Russian journalists received first-hand testimony that Turkey is “a friend” of Islamic State.
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“They only appear to be enemies, however, they are friends,” the 20-year-old Abdulhadi, whose brother, Til Berak, is still fighting for IS told Sputnik Turkey. While Turkish nationals constitute only about “10 percent” of jihadists he had come across, the prisoner said Turkey is actively training Islamic State fighters.
“In August 2014, I was training in the Turkish town of Adana with one of ISIL’s Emirs,” Abdulhadi said, adding his month-long training was completed with 60 other fighters in a camp “not far from the airport.”
The captured IS soldier said military training was conducted by two officers and one of them only “spoke Turkish, so another one had to translate for him.”
“Once a week we had shooting classes where we were taught to use Kalashnikovs, machine guns and other arms,” the 20 year-old said. “We were trained in Turkey because ISIL's command thought it was safer here than in Syria because of the bombardments there.”
While the camp was officially declared to be one of the training grounds for the Free Syrian Army, the YPG prisoner says, “all sixty of those who were there were ISIL members.”
“These were Syrian citizens, many of whom arrived in Turkey in search for a job initially, but later joined Daesh,” he explained.
After completing his training, Abdulhadi was tasked with escorting Syrians who wanted to join the jihadists.
“After I finished the training, I went to one of the districts in the Turkish town of Adana. My task was to meet the newly arrived recruits from Syria. After the training we sent them to the Turkish town of Urfa. From there the recruits were transferred via Turkey-Syria border crossing back to Syrian Raqqa. And from there further across Syria,” Abdulhadi explained, saying this was the only assignment he received from his “emir” during the deployment in Syria.
Besides helping to train recruits, the IS prisoner says he was deployed in Syria for brief periods. He was eventually captured in the village of Tal Afer on November 1.
The prisoner also revealed that IS is now receiving ammunition in trucks disguised as non-military cargo. He said that such low-level fighters as him have no idea where the arms come from.
“Weapons were brought to us in civilian cars, not in military ones because fighter jets might have bombed them. ISIL is now mostly using civilian vehicles. I’ve heard they put vegetables on top of boxes with ammunition, so that war planes do not spot them.”Leave a comment:
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Syrian Anti-IS Filmmaker 'Assassinated' In Turkey
December 27, 2015
A Syrian journalist and activist who recently produced a documentary hostile to Islamic State (IS) militants was shot dead in Turkey on December 27.
"Filmmaker Naji Jerf, father of two children, was assassinated...today in Gaziantep," on the border with Syria, with a pistol equipped with a silencer, the the group with which he worked, Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently, said in a statement on Twitter.
Jerf recently produced a film documenting abuses by the extremist IS group while its fighters were active in the city of Aleppo in northern Syria.
He also served as editor in chief of Hentah, a monthly magazine distributed inside Syria.
AFP quoted a friend of Jerf's as saying that he was "supposed to arrive in Paris this week after receiving, along with his family, a visa for asylum in France."
It was not the first time that Syrians opposed to IS militants have been slain in Turkey. The terrorist group claimed responsibility for the October killing of a prominent Syrian anti-IS activist and his friend in the city of Sanliurfa.
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Report: Turkish citizens supplied ISIS with sarin gas
A member of the Turkish opposition claims that Turkish citizens within the country are selling sarin gas to the deadly terror organization. Turkey has not yet confirmed the report, which could possibly strengthen Russia’s claim that Ankara is aiding ISIS.
Dec 15, 2015,
Becca Swerdlow
A high-ranking Turkish official stated that ISIS received shipments of the deadly nerve gas “sarin,” the same gas that was claimed to have been used by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad against militant rebels. According to the report, which has not been confirmed yet, the components of the dangerous gas were smuggled “under the nose” of the Turkish government. The high-ranking official hinted that the Turkish government is trying to “cover up” the story.
Turkish Republican People’s Party (CHP) opposition member Eren Erdem was interviewed yesterday (Monday) by the Russian news agency RT and stated that the Turkish government didn’t succeed in thwarting the business deal which provided ISIS with the required components to make the gas. “The equipment came through Turkey and the weapon was assembled in Syria,” added Erdem. “We have incriminating evidence, we know that the material was brought through Turkey and from here was transported to the organization,” declared Erdem.
The politician added that during Turkish parliament discussions, it was discovered that some Turkish citizens participated in this smuggling case.
If the report is true, it could cause critical consequences for Europe. Just last week, the European Union announced that the murderous organization might use chemical weapons in future terror attacks, including against European targets. The report is also expected to support Russia’s claims that Turkey is aiding and protecting the terror organization.Leave a comment:
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TURKEY'S LINKS TO ISLAMIC STATE
Pravda, Russia
Nov 29 2015
29.11.2015
Research carried out by a team of international experts has revealed
nine pieces of evidence that Turkey has collaborated with Islamic
State since 2014. This latest revelation, when added to the Armenian
Genocide, the attempted genocide against the Kurds and the Alevi,
when added to the repression, torture and atrocities carried out by
Turkey even against its own people, underlines the notion that the
State of Turkey is a pariah.
Authenticity of material confirmed
Recent research carried out by a team of experts from Columbia
University, including researchers from the United States of America,
Turkey and the European Union, led by David L. Phillips, Director
of the Program of Peace-Building and Rights, Columbia University
Institute for the Study of Human Rights, has raised allegations that
Turkey has been collaborating with Islamic State. These are not empty
allegations and before anyone raises accusations that the statements
were unfounded chatter picked up from the Internet and clippings, I
have not just copied and pasted this material from an Armenian website
or the Huffington Post, I took the trouble to contact the authors to
verify the authenticity of the material. The response was "confirmed".
While Turkish President Erdogan denies these allegations and speaks
about a smear campaign in the media, let us see the allegations for
ourselves, set out in the research paper "ISIS-Turkey links".
The first allegation is that Turkey has supplied military equipment
to Islamic State, the object of the allegation being documents from
the Adana Office of the Prosecutor which show that Turkey has been
arming terrorist groups. The allegations include evidence from truck
drivers delivering such equipment In January 2014. It is further
alleged that Germany and the USA are aware of the fact that Turkey
has aided terrorists militarily and financially.
The second allegation is that logistical assistance was provided by
Turkey to Islamic State fighters, and that Turkey is a known transit
point for terrorists entering Iraq and Syria; it has also been claimed
that Turkey has provided satellite images to ISIS.
The third allegation is that Turkey has trained Islamic State fighters
or has allowed Turkish territory to be used for gathering and training
purposes. Furthermore, convoys of Islamic State terrorists have
crossed freely to and from Turkey in full view of Turkish soldiers.
The fourth allegation is that medical aid has been extended by Turkey
to Islamic State fighters.
Turkey is funding Islamic State, NATO turns blind eye
The fifth allegation is that Turkey has been buying oil from Islamic
State, providing the terrorist group with funds, while there are
claims that illegal pipelines run from Syria through the territory
into Turkey. This is not one tanker or two taking advantage of a dodgy
security situation. It is chains of vehicles stretching out into the
horizon, lining up to buy oil from Islamic State and provide this
terrorist group with funds. Day and night, 24 hours a day, seven days
a week, a constant pipeline-lifeline of money going from Turkey into
Islamic State's coffers, funding the terrorist activities of this
extremist group. And Turkey is in NATO and NATO does nothing. On top
of this, there are reports of cultural treasures looted from Syria
and Iraq crossing into Turkey.
The sixth allegation is that Islamic State fighters are being
recruited in Turkey and operations are launched from Turkey to recruit
Turkish-speaking Islamic State terrorists from Turkey and Germany.
Recently, mortars were fired against the Syrian Arab Army (the Syrian
authority) from inside Turkey. Turkey is being used as a base by
terrorists and NATO does nothing. But then again, people in NATO
countries were weeping and saying the Lord's Prayer for the victims
in Paris - how many of them were mourning the victims (almost double
in number) of the terrorist strike against the Russian passenger jet
or the military personnel murdered by terrorists after Turkey shot
down a Russian bomber over Syria?
The seventh allegation is that Turkish terrorists have joined Islamic
State and are fighting alongside them on the front line. There are
claims that Turkey has also supported the al-Qaeda linked al-Nusra
Front and has sent special forces to fight with Islamic State.
The eighth allegation is that Turkey actively intervened in the Battle
of Kobani, supplying Islamic State with trains full of ammunition
and supplies
The ninth allegation is that Erdogan and the Turkish elite share a
similar worldview with Islamic State, being Islamists. Perhaps that
is why Kurdish fighters were allegedly prevented by the Turks from
entering Syria to fight against Islamic State.
These are the allegations in the research which has scoured multiple
sources of information online and in the printed press. Yet as
we go back in history, we find far more than allegations - we find
factual evidence of atrocities. Such as in the 1980s when the Leftist
politicians were rounded up, tortured and killed. In 1993, in Sivas,
37 people were burned to death in a hotel because they planned to
hold a demonstration. Why? They happened to be Alevi.
Then there was a 14-year-old boy who was murdered as he walked to
buy bread in Gezi. Erdogan apparently called him a "terrorist"; then
another who was beaten to death by the police when walking in the
street; then a girl who was shot by police because she asked them
politely to take off their shoes when entering the house "Would you
mind please taking off your shoes as you enter?" (which is the custom);
then in 2015 in Suruc, 34 college students were killed.
After the atrocities carried out against the Armenians, against
the Alevi, against the Greeks, against the Assyrians, it is hardly
surprising that not one of Turkey's neighbors has an easy relationship
with Ankara.
This is not the fault of the Turkish people, many of whom wish to see
a balanced society in which people can express themselves. This is not
the Turkey of Erdogan. The Turkey of Erdogan aids, abets and finances
terrorists, walks hand-in-hand with Islamist terrorism, oppresses
its people, murders Kurds, murders Alevi and commits war crimes.
The Turkey of Erdogan is the Gate to Hell and the Devil himself sits
on his throne in Ankara.
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
Pravda.Ru
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