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Turkey intentionally late in action against Islamic State recruiters

Aug 10, 2015 7:10 am By Robert Spencer

Islamic-State12It is every day clearer that Erdogan hopes to use the Islamic State to his own advantage, using it as an excuse to hit his enemies and as a stalking horse for the reestablishment of the Ottoman caliphate.

“Turkey intentionally late in action against ISIL recruiters: Report,” Hürriyet Daily News, August 10, 2015 (thanks to Joshua):

Turkey’s Prime Ministry Coordination Center (BİMER) has taken no action against recruiters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), including the Suruç suicide bomber, according to a report by an inspection committee formed by several members from the Republican People’s Party (CHP), daily Cumhuriyet reported Aug 9.

“When I told Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu ‘my son took his wife to Syria,’ he said ‘fortunately, they went together, they will support each other,’” the report quoted the family of a young man who went to Syria to join ISIL was quoted as saying.

Suruç suicide bomber Şeyh Abdurrahman Alagöz, along with two militants identified by their initials H.H.P and M.S.K, were responsible for brainwashing young people to draft them into ISIL the families of young people going to Syria to join ISIL stated, adding that a relative of one of the young men who joined the terrorist organization filed two separate complaints over the issue, said the report, which was prepared by the CHP committee following a visit to the eastern province of Adıyaman.

“No action was taken [on a state level], except an investigation launched a short time ago, in spite of two separate official compliants [sic] filed in September 2013 via BİMER in an address to both the Turkish president and prime minister,” the report said.

Upon their visit to Adıyaman, CHP deputy head Veli Ağbaba told daily Cumhuriyet that the Turkish state had no weakness regarding ISIL militants’ recruiting activities, but rather encouraged them.

“The bottom line of what we see there is the state has no good intention toward [ISIL’s militant recruiting], but rather there is encouragement on this issue. For example, the mother of Orhan Gönder, the perpetrator of the bomb attack at the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) rally in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır on June 5, took his son to the police and said ‘My son is from ISIL,’ but the police did nothing,” Ağbaba said.

The report also said would-be fighters could travel to join ISIL for as little as 20 Turkish Liras in ambulances that are dispatched to the border to pick up wounded jihadists.

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  1. Angemon says

    Aug 10, 2015 at 7:41 am

    It is every day clearer that Erdogan hopes to use the Islamic State to his own advantage, using it as an excuse to hit his enemies and as a stalking horse for the reestablishment of the Ottoman caliphate.

    Historically, countries who tried to use the previous caliphates for their own ends always came to regret it. Can’t wait to see this blow up on Erdogan’s face.

    • quotha raven says

      Aug 11, 2015 at 1:27 pm

      Angemon – “Historically, countries who tried to use the previous caliphates for their own ends always came to regret it. Can’t wait to see this blow up on Erdogan’s face.”

      Do you really think so, Angemon?

      My impression is that Turkey has been “Islamizing” for twenty years or more. As I once blathered at some length (too much length!) here, my erstwhile Turkish friend whose mother was a judge worried twenty years ago that all the secular values and methods and secular government that had been achieved by Ataturk were being eroded away as the people turned towards a stricter and stricter sharia state, preferring to return to a traditional Muslim state. The bhurka.became stylish again, after years and years of women’s dressing in a modern, western way! To me, it’s puzzling.

      Will you expand, Angemon? I’m sure you have a lot of value to say here, and I would be encouraged by any context, historical or otherwise, that would put the brakes on the dismal, fatalistic view I now take of Turkey. I certainly prefer the days when I thought they were our valued, trusted ally!

      Cheers! Quotha R

      • Angemon says

        Aug 11, 2015 at 3:31 pm

        There’s not much to add, QR. From what I can gather, Erdogan wants to resurrect the caliphate as it was during the Ottoman Empire: seated in Istanbul and ruled by Turks, preferably with state sponsored mosques that would preach whatever it was sanctioned by the state. In that regard, the islamic state is a contender. Long story short: Kurds want a country of their own where they can freely speak their language and practice their culture, and that country would encompass Turkish territory, Turkey says “f*** no, you’ll speak Turk, adopt Turkish customs, and you’ll like it, or else”. This has led to an armed struggle.

        Erdogan is more concerned with Kurdish autonomy than with ISIS, and Turkey has turned a blind eye to, if not outright aiding, ISIS actions against Assad and the Kurds. He clearly expects ISIS to fight his wars for him and stop at the Turkish border, but he forgets that the islamic state has an agenda of its own, and Turkey is on their 2020 roadmap:

        http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/06/30/article-2674736-1F46221200000578-100_634x381.jpg

        • quotha raven says

          Aug 11, 2015 at 3:58 pm

          Angemon – Thank you! What an interesting map, too! Somewhat challenging, but I’ll give it some study. Cheers! qr

  2. kay says

    Aug 10, 2015 at 7:58 am

    Turkey’s Erdogan has always been a major supporter of Islamic State.
    He shares a lot of their values. He likes the idea of the Caliphate and he wants to take Jerusalem.
    Erdogan wants Islamic State et al to take down Assad’s regime in Damascus.
    And of course to exterminate the Iraqi Kurds.
    He really hates moving against Islamic State.

    Everything about Turkey’s political regime and their close trading relationship with Islamic State is so wrong. Many thousands of foreign jihadis entered Iraq and Syria from Turkey. How else could the jihadis get there? Turkey has long been the silent partner of Islamic State and this made everything ten times worse. President Obama should be furious with Erdogan. But they look like a couple together.

    The US Air Force couldn’t even use the crucially important Incirlik airbase against the Islamic State bad guys until a few days back! And Incirlik cannot be used to help the Kurds. This is ridiculous.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incirlik_Air_Base#2014_-_15_operations_against_the_Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant

    2014 – 15 operations against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

    On 13 October 2014, it was rumored that the Turkish Government approved the use of Incirlik Air base to support operations against the Islamic State.[8] However, this was later denied.[9] On 23 July 2015, it was confirmed that the Turkish Government would begin allowing USAF UAVs and USAF combat planes to fly combat sorties against ISIL out of Incirlik Air base.[10] Ankara formally signed a deal July 29 2015 with the United States over the use of Turkey’s Incirlik air base in the U.S.-led coalition’s campaign against the Islamic State, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said, Hurriyet reported. The agreement covers only the fight against the Islamic State and does not include air support for allied Kurdish fighters in northern Syria, a spokesman for the ministry said.[11]

  3. Baucent says

    Aug 10, 2015 at 8:42 am

    Let’s walk this back. A few months ago the general elections in Turkey left Erdogan’s Islamist party without a majority and that was largely due to the new Kurdish led party of opposition. That frustrated Erdogan’s plan to increase his power as president. Right now a new government has not been formed. Erdogan we could expect was furious at the Kurds, but his government had a peace treaty with the PKK. Over the border in Syria, Kurdish forces were calving out a corridor along Turkey’s southern border, potentially cutting off a lucrative Islamic State supply route through Turkey for oil and pillaged artifacts and new jihadi recruits. A trade Turkish officials are undoubtedly profiting from.
    Then at the end of last month a bomb blast in Turkey kills and wounds many Turkish activists. An attack that the Turks blame on Islamic State but the Kurds claim the Turks had a hand in it. Within days the PKK retaliates, kills two Turkish Policemen and Ankara unleashed an air bombardment of PKK positions in Iraq, and apparently some IS targets in Syria. But the feeling is the Kurds are the real target.
    Today, attacks in Turkey including on the US Consulate are reported. (an attempt perhaps to drive a wedge between the US and the Kurds.)
    What going on? It is quite possible that Erdogan is engineering instability in Turkey for political gain. What hand the Turkish secret service have had in these attacks in Turkey is unclear, but it is certainly possible that the Turks are whipping up a fight with the Kurds to give Erdogan the opportunity to claim greater “emergency powers” and strengthen his position as an autocratic ruler.

    • quotha raven says

      Aug 11, 2015 at 4:05 pm

      Baucent – Clearly and concisely written. Thank you on behalf of, et al. Cheers! qr

  4. mortimer says

    Aug 10, 2015 at 9:26 am

    Erdogan is using ISIS to commit genocide against the Kurds on his behalf. He proved this by attacking Kurdish troops fighting ISIS.

    I doubt Turkey will do much to fight ISIS but talk about it while ISIS continues to murder the Kurds.

  5. nicu says

    Aug 10, 2015 at 3:59 pm

    Ghaddafi was right : Turkey will be the Trojan horse that brings Islam to Europe !

    Erdogan ist Adolf from Bosporus !

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