The evidence of Turkey’s tacit support for the jihadis in Syria, including the Islamic State, continues to mount.
“At least 5,000 jihadists entered Syria from Turkey, including Chinese Uighurs,” Asia News, April 22, 2016 (thanks to C. Cantoni):
Damascus (AsiaNews) – Syrian Prime Minister Wael Nader al-Halqi (pictured) confirmed recent reports that more than 5,000 Jihadis travelled through Turkey on their way to Idlib and the outskirts of Aleppo.
The Syrian leader told Russian news agency Sputnik that “Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Qatar, as well as Western countries such as Great Britain and France have no real desire to move the process of the political settlement,” and are pushing for a military solution.
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Al Moallem said many countries continue to provide Islamist fighters advanced weapons, most notably Turkey….
Syria’s UN Permanent Representative Houssam-Eddin Ala said that hundreds of new fighters have entered Syria through Turkey, noting that “Saudi Arabia continues to put pressure on the delegation from the Riyadh conference to reject any agreement.”
A Christian living southwest of Aleppo, who asked his name be withheld, told AsiaNews that a large number of Jihadi fighters from the Islamic Turkmen Party are being deployed.
“They received weapons and ammunition from the al Nusra Front and Jund al-Aqsa (Soldiers of Al Aqsa), which includes Syrians and others. Meanwhile, logistical work is being undertaken, with new positions with sandbags being prepared.”
“In the past few days, East Asian-looking fighters have joined the Islamic Turkmen Party, speaking Chinese,” the source added. They are probably “Chinese Uighurs coming through Turkey”.
Al Ahrar Sham fighters “are no longer on the frontline, but in the rear.”
In the village of Al Bawabiya (southwest of Aleppo, two kilometres from the Aleppo-Damascus Road, where the new Jihadis from Islamic Turkmen Party have set up their headquarters), the people are scared to death by the arrival of Turkic Uighur fighters “who have taken over abandoned houses”.
“They know that preparations are underway for a big fight,” he said. Residents have only two choices: “join the fighters, coerced or to survive, or quickly flee. Standing up to these armed men is impossible.” (PB)

Angemon says
Remember the Uighurs? They’re the real world version of Futurama’s Roberto:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj2dmQruJXs
And what are the odds that the blackmailer Erdogan had no knowledge of this hijra?
EmHotep says
Erdogan is not only supporting but, finding,training and organising jihadis.. He thinks he is in 3rd WW against civilization. Even our private companies send money to these jihadi groups. Erdogan also trying to remove secularism from the constitution and replace it with his islamic ideology (sharia)
Turkish seculars really need help, for us and for the world peace.
Kepha says
“In the past few days, East Asian-looking fighters have joined the Islamic Turkmen Party, speaking Chinese,” the source added. They are probably “Chinese Uighurs coming through Turkey”.
Suspicious. A bunch of Uyghurs would probably be speaking their own language among themselves–and it’s a lot more like Turkish than it is like Chinese. Further, I haven’t heard of Hui joining foreign jihads. That would be a first–and a very ominous thing. Whereas you might pick Uyghurs out of a Chinese crowd, you wouldn’t be able to pick Hui out of a Chinese crowd.
Kepha says
Also, Uyghurs don’t look all that East Asian. They’d fit better into a crowd in Kabul or Tahkent than into a crowd in Shanghai or Guangzhou.
Mazo says
You are both wrong.
Uyghurs are 50%Mongoloid old looking and 50% Caucasian looking, but the Mongoloid looking ones look more like Mongolian Mongols than East Asians. But to a Syrian, all Mongoloid peoples look the same and they can’take tell the difference between a Kazakh or a Korean.
The source is making mistakes. The name of the Uyghur group is Turkistan Islamic Party and not Islamic Turkmen Party and it’s well known already that they are in Syria. Most Syrians don’t know what Mandarin or Uyghur sounds like so the person was obviously guessing. All its members are Uyghurs or local Syrians. Most Syrian Arabs don’t know Turkish either and can’t tell what a Turkic language sounds like. The Syrian is very confused. Even most Turkmen in Syria know Arabic only after Baathist rule unless they live near the border with Turkey.
These people think Stalins puppet Ehmetjan Qasim is their lord and worship him.
Mazo says
And it is even less likely that a Syrian Christian will know Turkish and be able to distinguish between Mongoloid looking peoples. A Syrian Christian was the source and they have zero knowledge of Uyghur, Mandarin and they think everyone east of the Amu Darya looks the same.
Most Uyghurs who join terrorist organizations are Mongoloid like Hassan Mahsum and Abdul Haq. Most of the Uyghurs who committed terrorist attacks and had their faces unmasked were Mongoloid. Most of them will look East Asian to a Syrian Christian. Either they are camera phobic or caucasian looking Uyghurs are being very quiet in their activities or don’t join terrorist groups at the same rate.
Kepha says
Well, maybe you’re right. A lot of Americans are under the impression that because the southern side of the Med is Africa, the people there have to be “black” (Qaddafi? Houari Boumeidenne? The Moroccan Idrisid kings?). However, I have known Syrian Christians from the northern part of the country who were pretty polyglott in Arabic, Modern Syriac, and, believe it or not, Turkish.
I’ve also known American visitors to China’s eastern cities who had no background in Chinese history, ethnology, or language who figured that Uyghur migrants were different on first seeing them–even when they weren’t wearing their kufis.
Mazo says
If they speak Syriac they are Church if the East Arameans from northeastern Syria around Hasakah
Not northwestern Syria where the Christians are Catholic or Eastern Orthodox and speak Arabic. This is in northwestern Syria.
Its called a doppa. And the Uyghurs who do look Mongoloid aren’t noticed. Most westerners will not be able to spot Abdul Haq in a crowd.
Mazo says
3 caucasian Uyghurs and 7 Mongoloid Uyghurs stand in the street. The American notices 3 people standing out and congratulates himself for spotting all the minorities.
Some Syrian rebels asked Hazara Shia fighters from Afghanistan if they were from China or Russia during interrogations and called Kazakh foreign fighters as Chinese.
gravenimage says
More obfuscation from Mazo:
But to a Syrian, all Mongoloid peoples look the same and they can’take tell the difference between a Kazakh or a Korean.
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Well, *that’s* a pretty sweeping statement. Oh, those ignorant Syrians…
More:
The source is making mistakes…
And it is even less likely that a Syrian Christian will know Turkish and be able to distinguish between Mongoloid looking peoples. A Syrian Christian was the source and they have zero knowledge of Uyghur, Mandarin and they think everyone east of the Amu Darya looks the same…
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More of the same. The point of the story above is that Jihadists are coming from far and wide–including, it appears, from east Asia–to join in the Jihad in Syria, and that they are openly coming through Turkey.
*That* is the point of the story, which Mazo hopes we will miss.
More:
3 caucasian Uyghurs and 7 Mongoloid Uyghurs stand in the street. The American notices 3 people standing out and congratulates himself for spotting all the minorities…
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What does this even mean? That Americans recognize Caucasians as minorities but not “Mongoloids”? Perhaps Mazo meant it the other way ’round–that Americans would recognize “Mongoloids” (who uses this term anymore?) as minorities, but not Caucasians?
In the end, it hardly matters. What Mazo is trying to do is to shift focus from the very real Jihad threat to the supposed “racism” and “ignorance” of ill-informed American yahoos.
Oliver says
I think that Turkey needs a civil war of its own.
And that the US should contribute to it- send them the Muslim Brotherhood; CAIR; AND The Nation Of Islam. Hopefully, they will be on opposing sides.
And perhaps do a Fidel castro/Mariel–empty out our prisons. Send the slime to Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Pakistan.
Just my non PC views.
Kepha says
Ya know, I’m actually thinking of doing a pilgrimage to a few of the Christian sites in Turkey before too long.
gravenimage says
Oliver wrote:
I think that Turkey needs a civil war of its own…
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Alas, Oliver, it would probably be a pretty lopsided civil war. You’d have a handful of virtually secular liberal Muslims and part of the remnant of remaining non-Muslims versus the huge number of pious Muslims who support Erdogan, the imposition of Shari’ah law, and the backing of violent Jihad.
There is, in fact, little active opposition to Erdogan’s increased Islamization of Turkey, and most of those are trying to keep a low profile for their own safety.
Baucent says
What we know of the Uyghur road to Turkey came from the Bangkok bombing investigation. Where a muslim run safe house was discovered with large numbers of “fake” Turkish passports. Evidently the Uyghurs would travel overland exiting Western China into Laos. They then traveled almost the length of Laos before crossing into Cambodia at a sparsely populated border post. Then it was across the Thailand border also at a remote crossing where they would be collected a driven to the Bangkok safe house.They waited there while their Turkish passport was prepared identifying then as Turkish citizens. From Thailand they usually took a flight to Pakistan and then to Turkey. Turkish intelligence service must have been aware of this exodus and the ultimate destination of Islamic State. It’s quite possible the Thailand route is still being operated.
Kepha says
As a matter of fact, the Thai-Cambodian and Thai-Burmese borders are a smugglers’ paradise.
gravenimage says
Yes–I’ve heard of this before.