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Noose Tightens on Turkey's Sultan of Swing
Finian CUNNINGHAM | 29.11.2015 | 00:00
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ` a self-styled neo-Ottoman
sultan ` was only a few years a darling of Western governments and
media, proclaimed as a moderniser of Turkey, overseeing a bustling
economy and positioning his country as a strategic bridge to Asia.
But Erdogan's involvement in the US-led regime-change project in Syria
is now steadily revealing his family's appreciable criminal
enterprises: from smuggling oil and stolen artefacts, to gun-running
for terrorist networks. The former Sultan of Swing is swinging
alright, but it could be at the end of an incriminating rope whose
noose is becoming ever tighter around his neck.
Russia's air strikes in support of the Syrian government in its nearly
five-year war against foreign-backed mercenary brigades are blowing
the lid on the corruption at the heart of the Turkish ruling AK Party,
and the Erdogan family business in particular.
One factor in why Erdogan ordered the fatal shoot-down of a Russian
Su-24 fighter jet this week was out of revenge for how Russia is
destroying the Turkish ruler's criminal schemes. The destruction of
hundreds of oil tankers and other facilities commandeered by the
jihadist terror network in eastern Syria and western Iraq is hitting
Erdogan's lucrative racket.
The smuggling routes ` estimated to earn $1 million per day for the
terror brigades ` are integrated by Erdogan's son, Bilal, whose
licensed shipping companies traffic the illicit goods to global
markets. Russian intelligence has laid bare this smuggling empire, as
presented by President Vladimir Putin at the recent G20 summit held in
Turkey's Antalya. Further incriminating details are expected in coming
weeks.
This week, following the downing of the Russian warplane, Erdogan
boldly dismissed the oil connections as «slander».
But as Putin retorted, with a touch of sarcasm, it's hard to imagine
how the Ankara authorities could be unaware of an illicit industry
involving thousands of oil-laden trucks criss-crossing the heavily
militarised Turk border.
Among the contraband are believed to be precious artefacts stolen from
Syria's ancient dwellings, such as the cities of Palmyra and Iraq's
Nimrod, according to the Syrian information minister, Omran al-Zoubi.
These artefacts dating from 2,000 years ago are designated as world
heritage valuables by the United Nations. It says something about the
dubious values of Erdogan and his AK Party cronies when world heritage
objects are being looted to finance personal gain and terrorism.
The trade in oil stolen from Syrian and Iraqi state-owned facilities
by the jihadists is only one half of a giant cross-border loop tied up
by Turkey.
Convoys of trucks laden with weapons are going back into Syria from
Turkey on an almost daily basis. Those weapons, paid for by proceeds
from the oil smuggling, are then distributed among the plethora of
jihadist terror groups, including the Al Qaeda-linked Al Nusra and
so-called Islamic State (IS, also known as ISIS, ISIL or Daesh). The
arms trade is overseen by Turkey's National Intelligence Organisation
(MIT), headed up by Hakan Fidan, who is closely associated with
Erdogan and the AKP leadership.
Fidan was quoted by the state-run Anadolu news agency last month as
offering an apologia for the IS terror group. «ISIS is a reality and
we have to accept that we cannot eradicate a well-organised and
popular establishment such as the Islamic State», said Fidan, who
added: «Therefore I urge my Western colleagues to revise their mindset
about Islamic political currents¦ and thwart Vladimir Putin's plans to
crush Syrian Islamist revolutionaries [terrorists]». The statement
caused such a controversy that the Anadolu news agency later issued a
denial of its prior publication.
Despite a heavy media crackdown under Erdogan, sections of the Turkish
media have courageously carried damning reports on the oil-weapons
nexus that is fuelling the war in Syria. This week, the editor of the
Cumhuriyet newspaper, Can Dundar, was arrested on charges of «spying»
and crimes against the state because he published articles with
photographic evidence exposing the massive cross-border weapons
dealing, overseen by Turk I ntelligence. Erdogan has threatened the
editor with a life sentence for daring to reveal «state secrets».
Another Turk newspaper, Today's Zaman, also this week reported on an
unintended slip made by Adana state prosecutor, Ali Dogan, a protégé
of Erdogan. The prosecutor inadvertently revealed in a statement that
up to 2,000 trucks filled with arms and operated by Turk intelligence
have been ferrying firepower to militants in Syria.
It thus makes the claims made by the Syrian minister al-Zoubi that the
downing of the Russian Su-24 this week ` resulting in the death of its
pilot ` was an act of revenge by Erdogan owing to the severe damage
that Russia's military intervention in Syria is inflicting. That
damage includes not only huge financial losses to Erdogan and his
family entourage, but also to the entire war effort for regime change
against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
In an interview with Russian media, the Syrian minister said: «All of
the oil was delivered to a company that belongs to the son of Recep
[Tayyip] Erdogan. This is why Turkey became anxious when Russia began
delivering airstrikes against the IS [Islamic State] infrastructure
and destroyed more than 500 trucks with oil already. This really got
on Erdogan and his company's nerves. They're importing not only oil,
but wheat and historic artefacts as well», added al-Zoubi.
If Erdogan thought he could poke the Russian bear in the eye and get
away with it, he is sorely mistaken. Russia has stepped up its bombing
campaign along the Syria-Turkey border, hitting oil trucks heading
north and the reverse-flow of arms trucks heading south. In the Syrian
border town of Azaz, a Russian air strike this week reportedly
destroyed up to 20 vehicles believed to be stocked with weapons. Seven
people were killed in the air raid.
Ankara claims that the convoys crossing the border are carrying
«humanitarian aid» to Turkmen Syrians. Turk Prime Minister Ahmet
Davutoglu has complained that Russian air strikes have been targeting
Turkmen «brothers and sisters» ` inferring civilians.
But these are the same Turkmen militia who gained notoriety this week
by brutally murdering the Russian pilot who parachuted from the Su-24
downed by Turk F-16s jets.
The Turkmen militia, with names like the 10th Brigade of the Coast,
are fighting hand-in-hand alongside the other jihadist terror groups,
Al Nusra and IS, to topple the government in Damascus. The Turkmen,
who reside in northern Syria but who are ethnically related to Turkish
people, have played an instrumental role in waging Erdogan's covert
war of terror in Syria.
Last year, in April 2014, Turkmen militia carried out a massacre in
the northern coastal village of Kessab, in Latakia Province, where 88
Armenian Christians were slaughtered. Thirteen of the victims were
beheaded, according to survivors. That attack also involved brigades
from al Nusra, IS and the so-called Free Syrian Army, the alleged
«moderate secular rebels» much championed by the Western governments
and media. (A follow-up column will be published on that specific
massacre in the coming days.)
Significantly, a Turkmen commander recently protested bitterly to the
Erdogan regime over it not suppling his fighters with enough weapons.
Turkmen commander Ã-mer Abdullah of the Sultan Abdülhamit Brigade was
quoted as saying: «We are trying to survive under unbearable brutality
and we need Turkey's help.» He was referring to Russian air strikes,
adding: «Every day our Turkmen brothers are dying. We expect the
[Erdogan] government to support us. Why have they abandoned us? Our
martyrs fall every day. Why are we being left alone? I don't
understand».
As Turkey's Today's Zaman points out, the Turkmen's claim of not
receiving sufficient weapons raises the bigger question about the arms
trucks that Turk intelligence, MIT, has been running into Syria. Where
have the machine-guns, artillery and mortars contained in thousands of
cross-border convoys gone to? If the Turkmen brigades are being cut
out of the supply chain then that suggests that Ankara's weapons are
being funnelled instead to the other jihadist groups, such as Al Nusra
and IS.
Russia's military intervention in Syria is turning the tide decisively
against the criminal US-led war for regime change, by decimating the
ranks for terror brigades that Washington and its allies have deployed
for that objective.
For Turkey's self-styled strongman Erdogan, Russia's intervention is
also hammering home huge personal losses. His egotistical schemes of
resurrecting Turkey as a new Ottoman regional power are being
shattered. The international reputation of the country under his
leadership is sinking into a putrid sewer.
Moreover, his family's criminal involvement in the conflict is also
being exposed. And his responsibility for fuelling a criminal war of
aggression with the loss of over 250,000 lives looms ahead of Erdogan
like a noose. The Sultan of Swing indeed.
http://www.strategic-culture.org/new...-of-swing.html
Finian CUNNINGHAM | 29.11.2015 | 00:00
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ` a self-styled neo-Ottoman
sultan ` was only a few years a darling of Western governments and
media, proclaimed as a moderniser of Turkey, overseeing a bustling
economy and positioning his country as a strategic bridge to Asia.
But Erdogan's involvement in the US-led regime-change project in Syria
is now steadily revealing his family's appreciable criminal
enterprises: from smuggling oil and stolen artefacts, to gun-running
for terrorist networks. The former Sultan of Swing is swinging
alright, but it could be at the end of an incriminating rope whose
noose is becoming ever tighter around his neck.
Russia's air strikes in support of the Syrian government in its nearly
five-year war against foreign-backed mercenary brigades are blowing
the lid on the corruption at the heart of the Turkish ruling AK Party,
and the Erdogan family business in particular.
One factor in why Erdogan ordered the fatal shoot-down of a Russian
Su-24 fighter jet this week was out of revenge for how Russia is
destroying the Turkish ruler's criminal schemes. The destruction of
hundreds of oil tankers and other facilities commandeered by the
jihadist terror network in eastern Syria and western Iraq is hitting
Erdogan's lucrative racket.
The smuggling routes ` estimated to earn $1 million per day for the
terror brigades ` are integrated by Erdogan's son, Bilal, whose
licensed shipping companies traffic the illicit goods to global
markets. Russian intelligence has laid bare this smuggling empire, as
presented by President Vladimir Putin at the recent G20 summit held in
Turkey's Antalya. Further incriminating details are expected in coming
weeks.
This week, following the downing of the Russian warplane, Erdogan
boldly dismissed the oil connections as «slander».
But as Putin retorted, with a touch of sarcasm, it's hard to imagine
how the Ankara authorities could be unaware of an illicit industry
involving thousands of oil-laden trucks criss-crossing the heavily
militarised Turk border.
Among the contraband are believed to be precious artefacts stolen from
Syria's ancient dwellings, such as the cities of Palmyra and Iraq's
Nimrod, according to the Syrian information minister, Omran al-Zoubi.
These artefacts dating from 2,000 years ago are designated as world
heritage valuables by the United Nations. It says something about the
dubious values of Erdogan and his AK Party cronies when world heritage
objects are being looted to finance personal gain and terrorism.
The trade in oil stolen from Syrian and Iraqi state-owned facilities
by the jihadists is only one half of a giant cross-border loop tied up
by Turkey.
Convoys of trucks laden with weapons are going back into Syria from
Turkey on an almost daily basis. Those weapons, paid for by proceeds
from the oil smuggling, are then distributed among the plethora of
jihadist terror groups, including the Al Qaeda-linked Al Nusra and
so-called Islamic State (IS, also known as ISIS, ISIL or Daesh). The
arms trade is overseen by Turkey's National Intelligence Organisation
(MIT), headed up by Hakan Fidan, who is closely associated with
Erdogan and the AKP leadership.
Fidan was quoted by the state-run Anadolu news agency last month as
offering an apologia for the IS terror group. «ISIS is a reality and
we have to accept that we cannot eradicate a well-organised and
popular establishment such as the Islamic State», said Fidan, who
added: «Therefore I urge my Western colleagues to revise their mindset
about Islamic political currents¦ and thwart Vladimir Putin's plans to
crush Syrian Islamist revolutionaries [terrorists]». The statement
caused such a controversy that the Anadolu news agency later issued a
denial of its prior publication.
Despite a heavy media crackdown under Erdogan, sections of the Turkish
media have courageously carried damning reports on the oil-weapons
nexus that is fuelling the war in Syria. This week, the editor of the
Cumhuriyet newspaper, Can Dundar, was arrested on charges of «spying»
and crimes against the state because he published articles with
photographic evidence exposing the massive cross-border weapons
dealing, overseen by Turk I ntelligence. Erdogan has threatened the
editor with a life sentence for daring to reveal «state secrets».
Another Turk newspaper, Today's Zaman, also this week reported on an
unintended slip made by Adana state prosecutor, Ali Dogan, a protégé
of Erdogan. The prosecutor inadvertently revealed in a statement that
up to 2,000 trucks filled with arms and operated by Turk intelligence
have been ferrying firepower to militants in Syria.
It thus makes the claims made by the Syrian minister al-Zoubi that the
downing of the Russian Su-24 this week ` resulting in the death of its
pilot ` was an act of revenge by Erdogan owing to the severe damage
that Russia's military intervention in Syria is inflicting. That
damage includes not only huge financial losses to Erdogan and his
family entourage, but also to the entire war effort for regime change
against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
In an interview with Russian media, the Syrian minister said: «All of
the oil was delivered to a company that belongs to the son of Recep
[Tayyip] Erdogan. This is why Turkey became anxious when Russia began
delivering airstrikes against the IS [Islamic State] infrastructure
and destroyed more than 500 trucks with oil already. This really got
on Erdogan and his company's nerves. They're importing not only oil,
but wheat and historic artefacts as well», added al-Zoubi.
If Erdogan thought he could poke the Russian bear in the eye and get
away with it, he is sorely mistaken. Russia has stepped up its bombing
campaign along the Syria-Turkey border, hitting oil trucks heading
north and the reverse-flow of arms trucks heading south. In the Syrian
border town of Azaz, a Russian air strike this week reportedly
destroyed up to 20 vehicles believed to be stocked with weapons. Seven
people were killed in the air raid.
Ankara claims that the convoys crossing the border are carrying
«humanitarian aid» to Turkmen Syrians. Turk Prime Minister Ahmet
Davutoglu has complained that Russian air strikes have been targeting
Turkmen «brothers and sisters» ` inferring civilians.
But these are the same Turkmen militia who gained notoriety this week
by brutally murdering the Russian pilot who parachuted from the Su-24
downed by Turk F-16s jets.
The Turkmen militia, with names like the 10th Brigade of the Coast,
are fighting hand-in-hand alongside the other jihadist terror groups,
Al Nusra and IS, to topple the government in Damascus. The Turkmen,
who reside in northern Syria but who are ethnically related to Turkish
people, have played an instrumental role in waging Erdogan's covert
war of terror in Syria.
Last year, in April 2014, Turkmen militia carried out a massacre in
the northern coastal village of Kessab, in Latakia Province, where 88
Armenian Christians were slaughtered. Thirteen of the victims were
beheaded, according to survivors. That attack also involved brigades
from al Nusra, IS and the so-called Free Syrian Army, the alleged
«moderate secular rebels» much championed by the Western governments
and media. (A follow-up column will be published on that specific
massacre in the coming days.)
Significantly, a Turkmen commander recently protested bitterly to the
Erdogan regime over it not suppling his fighters with enough weapons.
Turkmen commander Ã-mer Abdullah of the Sultan Abdülhamit Brigade was
quoted as saying: «We are trying to survive under unbearable brutality
and we need Turkey's help.» He was referring to Russian air strikes,
adding: «Every day our Turkmen brothers are dying. We expect the
[Erdogan] government to support us. Why have they abandoned us? Our
martyrs fall every day. Why are we being left alone? I don't
understand».
As Turkey's Today's Zaman points out, the Turkmen's claim of not
receiving sufficient weapons raises the bigger question about the arms
trucks that Turk intelligence, MIT, has been running into Syria. Where
have the machine-guns, artillery and mortars contained in thousands of
cross-border convoys gone to? If the Turkmen brigades are being cut
out of the supply chain then that suggests that Ankara's weapons are
being funnelled instead to the other jihadist groups, such as Al Nusra
and IS.
Russia's military intervention in Syria is turning the tide decisively
against the criminal US-led war for regime change, by decimating the
ranks for terror brigades that Washington and its allies have deployed
for that objective.
For Turkey's self-styled strongman Erdogan, Russia's intervention is
also hammering home huge personal losses. His egotistical schemes of
resurrecting Turkey as a new Ottoman regional power are being
shattered. The international reputation of the country under his
leadership is sinking into a putrid sewer.
Moreover, his family's criminal involvement in the conflict is also
being exposed. And his responsibility for fuelling a criminal war of
aggression with the loss of over 250,000 lives looms ahead of Erdogan
like a noose. The Sultan of Swing indeed.
http://www.strategic-culture.org/new...-of-swing.html
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