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ISIS appeared only 2 years ago in 2014, and was created by the USA/Israel to:
(i) Balkanise Israel's neighbors, FIRST. Clinton emails .....
(ii) 2ND ...And thus create Eretz Israel, THEREAFTER...or Greater Israel under the Yinon plan of 1982. ...example: Israeli elite commando's are rescuing ISIS fighters in the vicinity of the Golan Heights and sending them to Israeli military hospitals to be patched up so that the ISIS fighters can be sent back to fight the Socialist Democratic government of Assad.
(iii) Re-invigorate the Islamic Fundamentalist meme which was by 2014 definitively flagging as a global scarecrow under 'al-CIA-duh'
(iv) Reinvigorate the destabilization efforts against the legitimately elected governments of Syria and Iraq.
ISIS is the seed in Syria and Iraq which will spread to other regions, as the CIA propaganda tools have published:
(i) Into North Africa...Egypt, Tunisia, Libya..
(ii) Into West Africa
(iii) Into East Africa.
(iv) Into Yemen.
(v) Into Afghanistan.
(vi) Into Central Asia.
(vii) Into China
(viii) Into South Asia
(ix) Into Europe
(x) North America.
In the above cases the USA and NATO will present themselves as the saviors and 'partners' against ISIS COALITION.
Given such a scenario one would expect greater efforts by legitimate anti-ISIS powers to fight the organization......by sending troops, airforce and navy to Syria and Iraq, FIRST.
Russia, China, India and Japan for example who are not wedded to NATO which is dominated by the USA.
Second, mount an effective long term propaganda to highlight the problem of ISIS for the world.
None of the above powers Russia, China, India or Japan have.
Instead there has been positioning by the above powers around USA policies diplomatically, which is WORTHLESS since the USA is the founder and the main engine driver of ISIS for Israel.
Are people in Russia, China, India and Japan stupid? Of course not.
But they are diplomatically polite, and by and large passive powers. Russia being an exception due only to the fact that Syria is their client state since 1958, and 5,000---7,000 fighters of ISIS are Russians, some with elite military backgrounds. They had to be confronted before they made their trips back across the Caucasus into Russia again.
So pointing fingers at the USA might be too much for Russia, China, India and Japan. But this ISIS thing really needs to be exposed, and soon. Passive world powers watching it grow does not bode well for world order and peace. An world order and stability that benefits Russia, China, India and Japan.
ISIS according to the CIA is about 100,000 strong and is sustained for the last 2 years by the USA, Israel, UK, France, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Jordan.
The legitimate Syrian governments says upwards of 80 countries support ISIS, whilst Putin says 40 countries fund ISIS. What we can definitively say is that that kind of Grand Coalition of the willing can only be mustered by the USA and Israel.
There are of course degrees of support for ISIS.
But what is clear is that NATO Turkey is a key player in all this, egged on and directed by the USA and Israel.
Whilst it may be diplomatically impossible to point the OBVIOUS finger at the USA, it is less so against NATO Turkey.
Indeed it is the duty of Russia, China, India and Japan to do so in a sustained extensive counter offensive propaganda manner.
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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK
INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Research Paper: ISIS-Turkey Links
By David L. Phillips
Published in the Huffington Post
Published in the Huffington Post
Introduction
Is Turkey
collaborating with the Islamic State (ISIS)? Allegations range from
military cooperation and weapons transfers to logistical support,
financial assistance, and the provision of medical services. It is also
alleged that Turkey turned a blind eye to ISIS attacks against Kobani.
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President Recep
Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu strongly deny
complicity with ISIS. Erdogan visited the Council on Foreign Relations
on September 22, 2014. He criticized “smear campaigns [and] attempts to
distort perception about us.” Erdogan decried, “A systematic attack on
Turkey’s international reputation, “complaining that “Turkey has been
subject to very unjust and ill-intentioned news items from media
organizations.” Erdogan posited: “My request from our friends in the
United States is to make your assessment about Turkey by basing your
information on objective sources.”
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Columbia
University’s Program on Peace-building and Rights assigned a team of
researchers in the United States, Europe, and Turkey to examine Turkish
and international media, assessing the credibility of allegations. This
report draws on a variety of international sources — The New York Times,
The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Daily Mail, BBC, Sky News, as
well as Turkish sources, CNN Turk, Hurriyet Daily News, Taraf,
Cumhuriyet, and Radikal among others.
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Allegations
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Turkey Provides Military Equipment to ISIS
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• An ISIS commander told The Washington Post
on August 12, 2014: “Most of the fighters who joined us in the
beginning of the war came via Turkey, and so did our equipment and
supplies.”
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• Kemal Kiliçdaroglu, head of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), produced a statement from the Adana Office of the Prosecutor on October 14, 2014 maintaining that Turkey supplied weapons to terror groups. He also produced interview transcripts from truck drivers who delivered weapons to the groups. According to Kiliçdaroglu,
the Turkish government claims the trucks were for humanitarian aid to
the Turkmen, but the Turkmen said no humanitarian aid was delivered.
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• According to CHP Vice President Bulent Tezcan, three trucks were stopped
in Adana for inspection on January 19, 2014. The trucks were loaded
with weapons in Esenboga Airport in Ankara. The drivers drove the trucks
to the border, where a MIT agent was supposed to take over and drive
the trucks to Syria to deliver materials to ISIS and groups in Syria.
This happened many times. When the trucks were stopped, MIT agents tried
to keep the inspectors from looking inside the crates. The inspectors
found rockets, arms, and ammunitions.
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• Cumhuriyet reports
that Fuat Avni, a preeminent Twitter user who reported on the December
17th corruption probe, that audio tapes confirm that Turkey provided
financial and military aid to terrorist groups associated with Al Qaeda
on October 12, 2014. On the tapes, Erdogan pressured the Turkish Armed
Forces to go to war with Syria. Erdogan demanded that Hakan Fidan, the
head of Turkey’s National Intelligence Agency (MIT), come up with a
justification for attacking Syria.
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• Hakan Fidan told
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, Yasar Guler, a senior defense official,
and Feridun Sinirlioglu, a senior foreign affairs official: “If need
be, I’ll send 4 men into Syria. I’ll formulate a reason to go to war by
shooting 8 rockets into Turkey; I’ll have them attack the Tomb of
Suleiman Shah.”
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• Documents surfaced
on September 19th, 2014 showing that the Saudi Emir Bender Bin Sultan
financed the transportation of arms to ISIS through Turkey. A flight
leaving Germany dropped off arms in the Etimesgut airport in Turkey,
which was then split into three containers, two of which were given to
ISIS and one to Gaza.
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Turkey Provided Transport and Logistical Assistance to ISIS Fighters
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• According to Radikal
on June 13, 2014, Interior Minister Muammar Guler signed a directive:
“According to our regional gains, we will help al-Nusra militants
against the branch of PKK terrorist organization, the PYD, within our
borders...Hatay is a strategic location for the mujahideen crossing from
within our borders to Syria. Logistical support for Islamist groups
will be increased, and their training, hospital care, and safe passage
will mostly take place in Hatay...MIT and the Religious Affairs
Directorate will coordinate the placement of fighters in public
accommodations.”
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• The Daily Mail reported
on August 25, 2014 that many foreign militants joined ISIS in Syria and
Iraq after traveling through Turkey, but Turkey did not try to stop
them. This article describes how foreign militants, especially from the
UK, go to Syria and Iraq through the Turkish border. They call the
border the “Gateway to Jihad.” Turkish army soldiers either turn a blind
eye and let them pass, or the jihadists pay the border guards as little
as $10 to facilitate their crossing.
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• Britain’s Sky News obtained
documents showing that the Turkish government has stamped passports of
foreign militants seeking to cross the Turkey border into Syria to join
ISIS.
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• The BBC interviewed
villagers, who claim that buses travel at night, carrying jihadists to
fight Kurdish forces in Syria and Iraq, not the Syrian Armed Forces.
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• A senior Egyptian official indicated on October 9, 2014 that Turkish intelligence is passing satellite imagery and other data to ISIS.
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Turkey Provided Training to ISIS Fighters
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• CNN Turk
reported on July 29, 2014 that in the heart of Istanbul, places like
Duzce and Adapazari, have become gathering spots for terrorists. There
are religious orders where ISIS militants are trained. Some of these
training videos are posted on the Turkish ISIS propaganda website
takvahaber.net. According to CNN Turk, Turkish security forces could have stopped these developments if they had wanted to.
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• Turks who joined an affiliate of ISIS were recorded at a public gathering in Istanbul, which took place on July 28, 2014.
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• A video shows
an ISIS affiliate holding a prayer/gathering in Omerli, a district of
Istanbul. In response to the video, CHP Vice President, MP Tanrikulu
submitted parliamentary questions to the Minister of the Interior, Efkan
Ala, asking questions
such as, “Is it true that a camp or camps have been allocated to an
affiliate of ISIS in Istanbul? What is this affiliate? Who is it made up
of? Is the rumor true that the same area allocated for the camp is also
used for military exercises?”
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• Kemal Kiliçdaroglu warned
the AKP government not to provide money and training to terror groups
on October 14, 2014. He said, “It isn’t right for armed groups to be
trained on Turkish soil. You bring foreign fighters to Turkey, put money
in their pockets, guns in their hands, and you ask them to kill Muslims
in Syria. We told them to stop helping ISIS. Ahmet Davutoglu asked us
to show proof. Everyone knows that they’re helping ISIS.” (See HERE and HERE.)
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Turkey Offers Medical Care to ISIS Fighters
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• An ISIS commander told the Washington Post
on August 12, 2014, “We used to have some fighters — even high-level
members of the Islamic State — getting treated in Turkish hospitals."
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• Taraf reported
on October 12, 2014 that Dengir Mir Mehmet Fırat, a founder of the AKP,
said that Turkey supported terrorist groups and still supports them and
treats them in hospitals. “In order to weaken the developments in
Rojova (Syrian Kurdistan), the government gave concessions and arms to
extreme religious groups...the government was helping the wounded. The
Minister of Health said something such as, it’s a human obligation to
care for the ISIS wounded.”
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• According to Taraf,
Ahmet El H, one of the top commanders at ISIS and Al Baghdadi’s right
hand man, was treated at a hospital in Sanliurfa, Turkey, along with
other ISIS militants. The Turkish state paid for their treatment.
According to Taraf’s sources, ISIS militants are being treated in
hospitals all across southeastern Turkey. More and more militants have
been coming in to be treated since the start of airstrikes in August. To
be more specific, eight ISIS militants were transported through the
Sanliurfa border crossing; these are their names: “Mustafa A., Yusuf El
R., Mustafa H., Halil El M., Muhammet El H., Ahmet El S., Hasan H.,
[and] Salim El D.”
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Turkey Supports ISIS Financially Through Purchase of Oil
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• On September 13, 2014, The New York Times reported
on the Obama administration’s efforts to pressure Turkey to crack down
on ISIS extensive sales network for oil. James Phillips, a senior fellow
at the Heritage Foundation, argues that Turkey has not fully cracked
down on ISIS’s sales network because it benefits from a lower price for
oil, and that there might even be Turks and government officials who
benefit from the trade.
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• Fehim
Taştekin wrote in Radikal on September 13, 2014 about illegal pipelines
transporting oil from Syria to nearby border towns in Turkey. The oil is
sold for as little as 1.25 liras per liter. Taştekin indicated that many of these illegal pipelines were dismantled after operating for 3 years, once his article was published.
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• According to Diken and OdaTV, David Cohen, a Justice Department official, says that there are Turkish individuals acting as middlemen to help sell ISIS’s oil through Turkey.
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• On October 14, 2014, a German Parliamentarian from the Green Party accused Turkey of allowing the transportation of arms to ISIS over its territory, as well as the sale of oil.
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Turkey Assists ISIS Recruitment
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• Kemal Kiliçdaroğlu claimed
on October 14, 2014 that ISIS offices in Istanbul and Gaziantep are
used to recruit fighters. On October 10, 2014, the mufti of Konya said
that 100 people from Konya joined ISIS 4 days ago. (See HERE and HERE.)
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• OdaTV reports
that Takva Haber serves as a propaganda outlet for ISIS to recruit
Turkish-speaking individuals in Turkey and Germany. The address where
this propaganda website is registered corresponds to the address of a
school called Irfan Koleji, which was established by Ilim Yayma Vakfi, a
foundation that was created by Erdogan and Davutoglu, among others. It
is thus claimed that the propaganda site is operated from the school of
the foundation started by AKP members.
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• Minister of Sports, Suat Kilic, an AKP member, visited Salafi jihadists who are ISIS supporters in Germany. The group
is known for reaching out to supporters via free Quran distributions
and raising funds to sponsor suicide attacks in Syria and Iraq by
raising money.
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• OdaTV released a video allegedly showing ISIS militants riding a bus in Istanbul.
Turkish Forces Are Fighting Alongside ISIS.
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• On October 7,
2014, IBDA-C, a militant Islamic organization in Turkey, pledged
support to ISIS. A Turkish friend who is a commander in ISIS suggests
that Turkey is “involved in all of this” and that “10,000 ISIS members
will come to Turkey.” A Huda-Par member at the meeting claims that
officials criticize ISIS but in fact sympathize with the group
(Huda-Par, the “Free Cause Party”, is a Kurdish Sunni fundamentalist
political party). BBP member claims that National Action Party (MHP)
officials are close to embracing ISIS. In the meeting, it is asserted
that ISIS militants come to Turkey frequently to rest, as though they
are taking a break from military service. They claim that Turkey will
experience an Islamic revolution, and Turks should be ready for jihad.
(See HERE and HERE.)
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• Seymour Hersh maintains in the London Review of Books
that ISIS conducted sarin attacks in Syria, and that Turkey was
informed. “For months there had been acute concern among senior military
leaders and the intelligence community about the role in the war of
Syria’s neighbors, especially Turkey. Prime Minister Recep Erdogan was
known to be supporting the al-Nusra Front, a jihadist faction among the
rebel opposition, as well as other Islamist rebel groups. ‘We knew there
were some in the Turkish government,’ a former senior US intelligence
official, who has access to current intelligence, told me, ‘who believed
they could get Assad’s nuts in a vice by dabbling with a sarin attack
inside Syria - and forcing Obama to make good on his red line threat.”
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• On September 20, 2014, Demir Celik, a Member of Parliament with the people’s democratic party (HDP) claimed that Turkish Special Forces fight with ISIS.
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Turkey Helped ISIS in Battle for Kobani
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• Anwar Moslem,
Mayor of Kobani, said on September 19, 2014: “Based on the intelligence
we got two days before the breakout of the current war, trains full of
forces and ammunition, which were passing by north of Kobane, had
an-hour-and-ten-to-twenty-minute-long stops in these villages: Salib
Qaran, Gire Sor, Moshrefat Ezzo. There are evidences, witnesses, and
videos about this. Why is ISIS strong only in Kobane’s east? Why is it
not strong either in its south or west? Since these trains stopped in
villages located in the east of Kobane, we guess they had brought
ammunition and additional force for the ISIS.” In the second article on
September 30, 2014, a CHP delegation visited Kobani, where locals
claimed that everything from the clothes ISIS militants wear to their
guns comes from Turkey. (See HERE and HERE.)
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• Released by Nuhaber, a video shows
Turkish military convoys carrying tanks and ammunition moving freely
under ISIS flags in the Cerablus region and Karkamis border crossing
(September 25, 2014). There are writings in Turkish on the trucks.
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• Salih Muslim, PYD head, claims that 120 militants crossed into Syria from Turkey between October 20th and 24th, 2014.
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• According to an op-ed written by a YPG commander in The New York Times on October 29, 2014, Turkey allows ISIS militants and their equipment to pass freely over the border.
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• Diken reported,
“ISIS fighters crossed the border from Turkey into Syria, over the
Turkish train tracks that delineate the border, in full view of Turkish
soldiers. They were met there by PYD fighters and stopped.”
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• A Kurdish commander in Kobani claims that ISIS militants have Turkish entry stamps on their passports.
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• Kurds trying to join the battle in Kobani are turned away by Turkish police at the Turkey-Syrian border.
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• OdaTV released a photograph of a Turkish soldier befriending ISIS militants.
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Turkey and ISIS Share a Worldview
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• According to the Hurriyet Daily News
on September 26, 2014, “The feelings of the AKP’s heavyweights are not
limited to Ankara. I was shocked to hear words of admiration for ISIL
from some high-level civil servants even in Şanliurfa. ‘They are like
us, fighting against seven great powers in the War of Independence,’ one
said.” “Rather than the [Kurdistan Workers’ Party] PKK on the other
side, I would rather have ISIL as a neighbor,” said another.”
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• Cengiz Candar, a well-respected Turkish journalist, maintained that MIT helped “midwife” the Islamic state in Iraq and Syria, as well as other Jihadi groups.
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• An AKP council member posted on his Facebook page: “Thankfully ISIS exists... May you never run out of ammunition...”
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• A Turkish Social Security Institution supervisor uses the ISIS logo in internal correspondences.
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• Bilal Erdogan and Turkish officials meet alleged ISIS fighters.
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Mr.
Phillips is Director of the Program on Peace-building and Rights at
Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights. He served
as a Senior Adviser and Foreign Affairs Expert for the U.S. Department
of State.
Author’s Note: Information presented in this paper is offered without bias or endorsement.
