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    Originally posted by Vrej1915 View Post
    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
    Wow look who stopped posting Lragir and is reposting my own posts in different threads... Whats the matter Vrej jan? Your adiance doesn't buy your BS no more?
    Hayastan or Bust.

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      Re: DAESH-ISIS / Turkey : organic links

      Originally posted by Haykakan View Post
      Wow look who stopped posting Lragir and is reposting my own posts in different threads... Whats the matter Vrej jan? Your adiance doesn't buy your BS no more?
      Dumdum, no matter how dummy retarded, you have the right to express .
      But you do not have the right to pollute threads. Be polite, and stop re posting entire articles on same page, just to place a sentence.

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        Re: DAESH-ISIS / Turkey : organic links

        Erdogan's Close Ties to ISIL

        Wayne MADSEN
        27.11.2015



        Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, contrary to the initial stated
        policies of his Justice and Development Party («Adalet ve Kalkınma
        Partisi» or AKP), is not a moderate Muslim. Erdogan is slowly turning
        his nation into an Islamist revivalist entity mirroring the Ottoman
        Empire. In fact, Erdogan's personal amassing of wealth and his
        building of an opulent presidential palace in Ankara is also
        reminiscent of the old Seljuk Muslim emperors. Erdogan seems to relish
        in Turkey's imperialist past in every fashion imaginable.

        Erdogan's newly-found wealth is courtesy of the Islamic State of Iraq
        and the Levant (ISIL), which has used Turkish middlemen to peddle
        their oil from Syria and Iraq to other countries through Turkey. One
        of these Turkish middlemen is reportedly Erdogan's son Necmettin Bilal
        Erdogan. The U.S. Treasury Department estimates that ISIL realizes $1
        million a day from illicit oil sales on the world's petroleum spot
        market with Erdogan's family cronies receiving a healthy portion of
        the ISIL oil proceeds.

        The Turkish media has published photographs of the Harvard-educated
        Bilal Erdogan having dinner in an Istanbul restaurant with a notorious
        ISIL guerrilla leader who has been responsible for genocidal acts in
        Homs and Western Kurdistan in northeastern Syria. Bilal Erdogan is in
        the right business for illegally shipping oil on behalf of ISIL. He is
        one of three equal shareholders in «BMZ Group Denizcilik ve Ä°nÅŸaat
        Sanayi Anonim Åžirketi», a marine shipping company.


        There is little doubt that Erdogan has been using ISIL to battle his
        many enemies ` all of whom stand opposed to Erdogan's Islamist and
        jihadist policies. Erdogan, through ISIL and its surrogates, including
        the Al Nusra Front and the Khorasan Group, has taken on Syria's
        secular government of President Bashar al Assad; Kurdish groups in
        Turkey, Syria, and Iraq; Shi'as and Christian Armenians and Greeks in
        Lebanon; and the Shi'a government of Iraq. Erdogan has facilitated the
        crossing of ISIL commando units into Iran and he continues to back
        Muslim Brotherhood factions in Egypt and Salafist brigades in Libya.

        Yet, Erdogan, who has also permitted the infiltration into Europe of
        ISIL terrorists, masquerading as refugees from Syria, relies on the
        protection of NATO's mutual defense umbrella. With the military
        insurance policy provided by NATO, Erdogan has been emboldened to use
        ISIL and its affiliates as proxies for Turkey's greater aims: the
        establishment of a Turkish-dominated Islamist bloc from Morocco to
        western China ` the goal of every Ottoman and Seljuk emperor.


        One of the financial players involved in supporting Al Qaeda before
        the 9/11 attacks on the United States, Yasin al Qadi, a Saudi
        national, has been given unhindered free passage through Turkey by
        Erdogan. Between February and October 2012, al Qadi entered Turkey
        four times even though he was subject to a United Nations Security
        Council travel ban. Turkish and Saudi pressure saw the UN remove al
        Qadi from the travel ban list after his fourth trip to Turkey in
        October 2012.

        While Erdogan has publicly stated that he is a partner of the United
        States and NATO against ISIL, the facts on the ground speak for
        themselves. Erdogan's military operations against ISIL have actually
        been a vicious campaign against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in
        southeastern Turkey and the Syrian Kurdish PYD/YPG (Democratic Union
        Party) group in northeastern Syria. Erdogan has never had any desire
        to wage a war against ISIL, when, in fact, ISIL has committed
        egregious genocidal warfare against Kurds in Syria and Iraq.

        The U.S. Congressional Research Service (CRS) has pointed out that
        Turkey is the favored route for ISIL terrorists to transfer to and
        from Syria. A CRS report, dated October 5, 2015, states: «Congress and
        other U.S. policymakers, along with many international actors, have
        shown significant concern about the use of Turkish territory by
        various groups and individuals involved in Syria's conflict'including
        foreign fighters from around the world'for transit, safe haven, and
        smuggling». The report quotes February 2015 congressional testimony
        from National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) Director Nicholas
        Rasmussen: «Violent extremists take different routes, including land,
        air and sea. Most routes do involve transit through Turkey because of
        its geographic proximity to the Syrian border areas where most of
        these groups operate».

        Rasmussen, in the same Congressional testimony, took aim at Erdogan's
        support for terrorists in Syria: «Turkey will always look at its
        interests through the prism of their own sense of self-interest, and
        how they prioritize particular requests that we make for cooperation
        doesn't always align with our prioritization». Turkey's
        «self-interest» is to promote jihadism and pan-Turkic Islamist
        ideology at the expense of the political stability of Syria, Iraq,
        Iran, Azerbaijan, Lebanon, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan,
        Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia,
        Sudan, Yemen, Algeria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia,
        Bulgaria, and Morocco.

        Erdogan has also called Turkey's Alevi minority, who are affiliated
        with the Syrian Alawites, have old links to Shi'a and Sufi Islam, and
        adhere to pre-Islamic Anatolian and Christian religious beliefs,
        traitors to the Turkish state. The U.S. State Department summed up
        Erdogan's policies toward the Alevis in its Religious Freedom Report
        for 2013: «The government considers Alevism a heterodox Muslim sect
        and does not financially support religious worship for Alevi Muslims».
        The head of the secular Republican People's Party of Turkey (CHP),
        Kemal KılıçdaroÄŸlu, is an Alevi Muslim and he has supported the Assad
        government in Syria against its enemies. Erdogan has called
        KılıçdaroÄŸlu a traitor to Turkey.

        Erdogan showed his commitment to ISIL terrorism when, after ISIL
        bombed a Russian Metrojet (Kogalymavia) Airbus enroute from Sharm el
        Sheikh to St. Petersburg, killing all 224 passengers and crew, he told
        Dubai TV, «The Russian airplanes are targeting Mujahidin in Syria and
        partisans fighting to topple Syrian dictator Assad. In Syria, Moscow
        seeks to tip the balance on the ground against `our brethren.'
        Consequently, there should be no surprise if Islamic State take
        revenge». Erdogan added, «How can I condemn the Islamic State for
        shooting down a Russian plane as its passengers were returning from a
        happy vacation in a time when our co-religionists in Syria are bombed
        by Putin's fighter jets?.. it is the natural outcome of Moscow's
        actions in Syria and the support for Assad». Erdogan has even more
        reasons to support terrorist attacks on Egyptian soil. He continues to
        support the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and its imprisoned
        former Egyptian president, Mohamed Morsi. Russia supports Egypt's
        president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.


        In other words, Erdogan, less than a day after the terrorist murder of
        Russian citizens, including women and children, could not wait to laud
        ISIL and its Sinai affiliate, «Ansar Bait al-Maqdis», for targeting
        Metrojet flight 9268 on October 31, 2015. More outrageously, the
        United States and NATO supports the terrorism of Erdogan, which was
        once again displayed, when Turkish-supported Syrian Turkoman
        guerrillas operating under the NATO-supported «Free Syrian Army,» shot
        at parachuting Russian Air Force Sukhoi-24 crewmen after their
        aircraft was shot out of the sky by Turkish F-16 interceptors.

        These same jihadist Turkoman units fired a U.S.-supplied TOW missile
        at a Russian Marine search-and-rescue helicopter to save their downed
        pilots.
        One Russian pilot and a search-and-rescue Marine were killed
        in what constituted a Turkish-sanctioned violation of the Geneva
        Conventions on Warfare. It is Erdogan and his government that
        represent a true terrorist and jihadist state and they seem intent on
        keeping up with the Saudis and Qataris in state-sponsored support for
        terrorism.

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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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                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.

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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.


                  Based on reporting by AFP and dpa

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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.”

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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.

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