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The village of Barişa, where Baghdadi was hidden and the operation was conducted, is 5 km from the Hatay-Reyhanlı perimeter -it is located within the field of Turkey’s surveillance.
Claiming “Idlib is ours,” the AKP regime draws attention to the support and protection of ISIS cells and leaders under the wing of the Turkish state.
Essentially, ISIS was defeated on the Menbij, Raqqa and Dêrazor course while one of the retreat-spaces was Idlib. Since 2018, we have known that ISIS infiltrated Idlib through suicide bombings, bomb attacks and executions.
Turkey is now openly manifesting its relationship with ISIS, unlike before. With the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the dirty networks of TC and ISIS continue to be revealed.
So where does this dirty alliance proceed?
The aim of the war, which was initiated by the armed forces of its predecessor, in Syria in 2011 was to break Russia’s influence in Syria, to destroy the existing Syrian regime and to establish a new regime under the authority of the forces that would cooperate with them to distribute Syria’s resources.
The AKP dictatorship has also taken steps to reach the crumbs of share from Syria’s underground and aboveground resources. The gang which would be used for the destruction of the Syrian regime forces began to organize within the Turkish occupation border of Northern Kurdistan. This gang, an embodiment of dirty interests, is made to organize under the Free Syrian Army (FSA).
Turkey borders were dismantled to the entire jihadist gangs and their predecessors. All kinds of fighter, weapon and material support were provided by and through Turkey. However, when Erdogan began to establish his fantasy Ottoman dreams in the Middle East, an unexpected turn would occur.
When the Sunni rebellion in Iraq merged with the developments in Syria, the ISIS project would be sparked. Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar also took place among the most supportive countries. At the epitome of the support was the shipment of weapons, money and fighters to participate in the conflict. Developing and growing with the support given, ISIS declared itself as a state and started to invade Iraq and Syria. It had declared Raqqa it’s capital. Thus, with the everchanging balances in the Syrian civil war, the already fragile equilibrium was disturbed.
Turkey, to remedy its internal politics and salvage its dissolving economy, sold its soul to ISIS. Every form of support was provided. Borders were loosened, roads were opened; fighter, weapon and material transfers were facilitated with the support of MIT. Associations, foundations, and companies were established to conceal money transfers. With training provided, illegal organizational activities and actions were admitted while de facto recorded. Turkey is not only a safe haven for ISIS; provinces such as Adiyaman and Gaziantep also serve as hubs for reorganisation, and weapon storage units with the Turkish police bat-blind to the ongoing activities.
Ilyas Aydin (Abu Ubeyde), the ISIS commander and one of the many ISIS members who had previously been captured by the SDF, disclosed: “We had meetings with MIT. At these meetings, we talked about Suruç and the October 10 massacres. We negotiated the release of the ISIS detainees in return for the two Turkish soldiers who were going to be burned. The Suruc massacre, Ilyas Aydin confessed, was carried out by ISIS with the permission of the Turkish state. Suruc is one of many such massacres, including Reyhanlı, Diyarbakır, Ankara and Atatürk airports, and Reina. Some of these massacres, Aydin explained, were even organised by the AKP.
Turkey = ISIS
We can begin with the confession of Taha Abdurrahman Abdullah who was captured by the SDF forces in Derezor Baxoz on March 23, 2019. Taha Abdurrahman Abdullah, one of the closest men to Baghdadi, disclosed that Abdullah Qardaş was set as the new caliph of ISIS to please Turkey.
Also, Abdullah, as established from his confessions, was the general responsible for the group (Alaqat Hariciye) carrying out the attacks in Europe and Turkey. He is understood to be a senior ISIS general from the confessions of other ISIS prisoners.
Again captured by SDF, Eyub Mihemed Mirbat from Bahrain, disclosed that “All the materials were coming from Turkey. Missiles, mortars and bullets were being ordered, private barrels were being requested from Turkey. Gunpowder and TNT were being brought from Turkey through mediators. Between Turkey and ISIS, there were oil agreements made to sell oil to Turkey.”
The Turkey-ISIS relations were not only exposed by the testimonies of prisoners but also by the international press in many areas: through the politicians and journalists who had proved allegations with concrete evidence.
Another example of this came from US presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard who assessed the official recognition by the US House of Representatives of the Armenian Genocide bill, and in assessing the sanctions bill to ratify Turkey. Gabbard had said, “Erdogan has been aiding ISIS/al-Qaeda for years. He denied it, but now he is clearly revealing who he really is by using the former ISIS/Al Qaeda militants: a radical Islamic megalomaniac who wants to establish a caliphate system in which he is the absolute caliph.”
Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov, had stated that “the main consumer of the oil ISIS has stolen from Syria and Iraq is Turkey. Turkey’s President Erdogan and his family have a direct relationship to the illegal oil shipments made through ISIS in Syria’s oilfields. In the month of November [2015] 16 thousand 260 oil tankers were seen near the border with Turkey.”
Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s Permanent Representative of the United Nations, said in February 2016 that MIT is in direct relation with ISIS, that the network which MIT and ISIS have jointly built has a base in Antalya and that they send people from various states of the world to Syria after organizing. Stating that the organizations are with the approval and support of official authorities, Churkin also disclosed that the Erdogan regime also treats injured ISIS members from Syria in safe areas near the border.
In operations made by the YPG, Galena pharmaceutical company-branded hospital drips were found. These drips are imported by Turkey and transported to the region by a fake pharmaceutical company in Istanbul. In 2017, Turkeys MKE (Mechanical and Chemical Industry Company) made weapons were found in the operations carried out in Tabka. Later, at many points, Turkish weapons continued to be found.
Previously in a Sulaimaniya, during an action organised by the Martyr Sakine Cansiz Revolutionary Revenge Units against the MIT responsibles of the PKK Desk, Erhan Pekçetin ve Aydın Günel had confessed that their organisation had given aid to ISIS as well as other jihadist groups.
Despite all this evidence, the fascist AKP regime refused to accept its relationship with ISIS and continues its genocide and massacres against the Kurdish people under the name of the Syrian National Army with the occupation operation launched on October 9, 2019, under the name of ‘Peace Spring.’
The AKP regime is pursuing dreams of hitting two birds with one stone on Syrian soil under the name of the safe zone. But both in domestic politics and in foreign politics, both economically and socially Turkey has plunged into a swamp. We don’t know that the last flutter will salvage, but this time Turkey will lose big.
