The disputed report reads, in part, “Hakan Fidan, the head of Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization… said that it is imperative that ISIS must set up a consulate or at least a political office in Istanbul,” and “we must stop Putin from crushing the Islamic revolution.”
Even if the report is false, it highlights global concerns over Turkey’s support for the Islamic State. For example, even President Obama — staunch ally of Turkish PM Erdogan — recently demanded Turkey seal its border with Syria to stop the flow of ISIS recruits in, and oil out.
And whether the report is true or false, it certainly is in harmony with numerous sourced and verified reports that there is strong and active support for the Islamic State in the highest echelons of the Turkish government. Russian President Vladimir Putin has brought all this to light following Turkey’s downing of a Russian fighter jet, alleging Turkey did so to protect its oil trade with ISIS.
The disputed report is immediately below (including an excerpt from the Wikipedia entry for Hakan Fidan, included in the Fort Russ post). The statement from Turkey’s Anadolu Agency denouncing the report is at bottom.
“Turkish intelligence chief: ISIS is a reality and we must stop Putin from crushing the Islamic revolution,” AWD News via Fort Russ, November 24, 2015:
Hakan Fidan, the head of Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization, known by the MİT acronym, has drawn a lot of attention and criticism for his controversial comments about ISIS.
Mr. Hakan Fidan, Turkish President’s staunchest ally, condemned Russian military intervention in Syria, accusing Moscow of trying to ‘smother’ Syria’s Islamist revolution and serious breach of United Nations law.
“ISIS is a reality and we have to accept that we cannot eradicate a well-organized and popular establishment such as the Islamic State; therefore I urge my western colleagues to revise their mindset about Islamic political currents, put aside their cynical mentalité and thwart Vladimir Putin’s plans to crush Syrian Islamist revolutionaries,” – Anadolu News Agency quoted Mr. Fidan as saying on Sunday.
Fidan further added that in order to deal with the vast number of foreign Jihadists craving to travel to Syria, it is imperative that ISIS must set up a consulate or at least a political office in Istanbul. He underlined that it is Turkey’s firm belief to provide medical care for all injured people fleeing Russian ruthless airstrikes regardless of their political or religious affiliation.
Recently as the fierce clashes between Russian army and ISIS terrorists are raging across the war-torn Syria, countless number of ISIS injured fighters enter the Turkish territory and are being admitted in the military hospitals namely those in Hatay Province. Over the last few days, the Syrian army with the support of Russian air cover could fend off ISIS forces in strategic provinces of Homs and Hama.
Emile Hokayem, a Washington-based Middle East analyst said that Turkey’s Erdoğan and his oil-rich Arab allies have dual agendas in the war on terror and as a matter of fact they are supplying the Islamist militants with weapons and money, thus Russian intervention is considered a devastating setback for their efforts to overthrow Syrian secular President Assad.
Hokayem who was speaking via Skype from Washington, D.C. highlighted the danger of Turkish-backed terrorist groups and added that what is happening in Syria cannot be categorized as a genuine and popular revolution against dictatorship but rather it is a chaos orchestrated by Erdoğan who is dreaming to revive this ancestor’s infamous Ottoman Empire.
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Wiki:
In 2014, voice recordings, where Hakan Fidan, foreign minister Davutoğlu, Deputy Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Yasar Güler, and other military personnel discusses a potential false flag incursion into Syria, was leaked to YouTube and shared across Twitter. The event resulted in the Turkish government blocking access to Twitter, then YouTube, and finally the DNS servers of Google DNS and OpenDNS.[10] In the voice recording, he is heard saying, to a military personnel, “… [i]f legitimacy [of a possible incursion into Syria] is an issue, I can simply send a few men there [across the Syria-Turkey border] and have them launch missiles over to us. Legitimacy is not a problem. Legitimacy can be manufactured.” Seymour Hersh later linked what was said in this leaked meeting with CIA-Erdoğan dealings on Syria.
JW DISCLAIMER: The Fort Russ site now has this statement added below their post:
Update. This story had such a huge global resonance that Anadolu Agency issued a statement:
Statement from Anadolu Agency
20.10.2015 Turkey
ANKARA
We hereby state that the recent stories on some foreign media outlets claiming that Anadolu Agency did an interview with Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MIT) Undersecretary Hakan Fidan and published it are totally false.
It is known that the MIT has no such practice of speaking to media.
These fabricated stories by foreign sources are regarded as part of an international psychological campaign against Turkey.
Necessary steps have been taken to have such fabricated stories removed, with legal rights being reserved.
Jay Boo says
President Putin here is the address of the Turkish Embassy in DC
2525 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W Washington D.C.
I will get back to you with the GPS coordinates, shortly.
Sam says
I thought we already have a consulate at: 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20500
Jay Boo says
Muslims wake up.
Obama is killing your children too (for oil)
Thanks to Obama, gas prices in North Carolina have dropped to $1.93
Thank you for helping Turkey and ISIS shoot down that Russian jet before it shut off ISIS pipeline of cheap oil.
But is it really worth all the suffering, President Obama?
Remember that Muslim children are suffering too, Obama.
Obama your behavior is SHAMEFUL.
Obama loves Islam and oil but hates innocent Muslim children.
ballotcode says
Turkey is NOT a reliable partner.
I”d rather have Russia.
Sam says
Agreed 100%. I am originally from Turkey also.
Marty says
Some years ago Turkey was, thanks to Ataturk’s reforms, an interesting
& fast developing pro Western nation.
It is fast degenerating into an islamist, hypocritical, totally unreliable
pseudo ally. Civilised Turks who I have met agree.
Russia is a much closer cultural ally.
If Stalin was OK to be an ally in WW2 against Nazism, then Putin is
OK now to be our ally against the much greater threat of Islam.
Nazism lasted little more than a decade.
Islam has been our enemy for more than 1,000 years
Dr. Divinity says
Yes Marty….Islam is the enemy too bad the powers that are don’t acknowledge that it is.
خَليفة says
its sad that so many world leaders have sold their souls In exchange for power and money.
Mustafa Ataturk is rolling over in his grave as Erdogan leads Turkey back into the Stone Age.
Sam says
I think it is a good idea to establish ISIS consulates all over the world to talk and negotiate with them so they would not cut off our heads but kill us in a less cruel way.
The whole world turned REAL NUTS!
pdxnag says
Isn’t it time to give them a seat at the U.N., and chairmanship of the United Nations Commision on Human Rights? This would not measurably alter either body.
No Sharia-compliant Sharia-insistent entity belongs in either body. But that is a greater issue than whether the latest quintessentially Islamic entity deserves equal representation to all the other monstrous ones.
خَليفة says
ISIL having a UN seat would provide material for irony. Imagine the ISIL ambassador bringing in a bomb is his diplomatic pouch and blowing up the UN….
Angemon says
Sounds plausible.
Manuel Franco says
It’s good luck, and still in our best interests, that they are still occupied in petty rivalries; such as sunnis vs shias. Nevertheless, Turkey is nowadays a muslim state that supports terrorism; and should be treated as such. Ie, the first thing to do is to kick it out of NATO, so that Russia can have it’s way with it for us..,