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Turkey bans documentary on Islamic State jihad attack victims

Jun 30, 2019 9:31 am By Robert Spencer

“The Kobane siege had a dramatic impact in Turkey, where many Kurdish citizens perceived the Turkish military’s failure to support the town’s defenders as tacit support for the Islamic State.”

Indeed, and not just Kurdish citizens, either. Turkey’s support for the Islamic State was obvious in numerous ways. Back in 2015, in my book The Complete Infidel’s Guide to ISIS, I noted that Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was aiding the Islamic State in the ultimate hope of co-opting its caliphate and making it part of his own revived Ottoman caliphate. Even though the Islamic State has suffered severe losses in Iraq and Syria, Erdogan has not given up on that hope.

“Turkey bans documentary on ISIS attack victims in south eastern town,” Ahval News, June 28, 2019:

Turkish authorities have banned the screening of a documentary that tells the story of 33 people killed in an Islamic State (ISIS) bomb attack in the southeast Turkish town of Suruç in July 2015, news site Bianet said on Friday.

The Islamic State killed 33 young activists in the Turkish border town of Suruç in a bomb attack on July 20, 2015.

The activists had gathered to discuss the reconstruction of the neighbouring Syrian town of Kobane, the site of a siege that made international headlines the previous year, when ISIS forces attempted to take the majority Kurdish town from the Syrian Kurdish militants defending it.

The Kobane siege had a dramatic impact in Turkey, where many Kurdish citizens perceived the Turkish military’s failure to support the town’s defenders as tacit support for the Islamic State.

Though the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) have been internationally praised for their part in defeating ISIS, Turkey views it as a terrorist organisation due to its links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, which began an armed struggle for Kurdish self-rule in Turkey in 1984.

The police department and district governorship of Istanbul’s Şişli banned the premiere of the documentary “Gitmek” (Going) and said in a written statement that the film was “making propaganda for a terrorist organisation.”…

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  1. mortimer says

    Jun 30, 2019 at 9:55 am

    Turkey benefited from ISIS in many ways: by purchasing cheap oil, by using ISIS as a surrogate to attack and weaken the governments foes in Syria, Iraq and Kurdistan. When Kurds, Yezidis and Christians were being slaughtered and ethnically cleansed, Turkey could not be accused of those atrocities directly.

    Erdogan’s family got richer from trading with ISIS. This is a perfect example of how anything that supports the Islamist agenda is considered opportune and Islamicly correct.

  2. Angemon says

    Jun 30, 2019 at 9:57 am

    “The Kobane siege had a dramatic impact in Turkey, where many Kurdish citizens perceived the Turkish military’s failure to support the town’s defenders as tacit support for the Islamic State.”

    Most inhabitants were Kurds. What happened is obvious.

    • black adder says

      Jul 1, 2019 at 7:04 am

      The Kurdish people deserve a free state more than anyone. They have been through a lot. Enough with the islamofascist Turks!

  3. mortimer says

    Jun 30, 2019 at 9:59 am

    Erdogan conducted genocide through his ISIS surrogates with plausible deniability. ISIS militants used Turkey’s friendly, porous border as an entry and exit from ISIS territory.

    • black adder says

      Jul 1, 2019 at 6:55 am

      They still do, so that they can enter Europe.

  4. John says

    Jun 30, 2019 at 11:02 am

    All islam is Evil and supported by Barbaric savages. BAN islam from Civilisations

  5. GreekEmpress says

    Jun 30, 2019 at 6:18 pm

    What can you expect from a country that still denies the Armenian/Greek genocide???

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 30, 2019 at 7:45 pm

      So true.

    • black adder says

      Jul 1, 2019 at 6:54 am

      You forgot the Assyrians.

      • GreekEmpress says

        Jul 1, 2019 at 8:28 am

        Black Adder,
        My apologies—I forgot to mention the Assyrians as well. There were estimates I saw in articles of 275,000-300,000 Assyrian deaths relating to the genocides.

      • gravenimage says

        Jul 3, 2019 at 1:16 am

        The Armenian Genocide actually targeted *all* Christians–Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, and Levantines.

  6. gravenimage says

    Jun 30, 2019 at 7:44 pm

    Turkey bans documentary on Islamic State jihad attack victims
    ………………..

    Why would this be the case, if Turkey wasn’t supporting ISIS?

  7. Hate speach says

    Jul 1, 2019 at 4:33 am

    you’ve missed the chance to get it onto uTube or face book, it will be classified as hate speech now

  8. black adder says

    Jul 1, 2019 at 6:52 am

    TURKISIS!

  9. Pal says

    Jul 2, 2019 at 8:12 am

    “The Islamic State would never have existed without the help of the Turks”
    https://www.publico.es/internacional/respirando-fuego-entranas-lucha-kurda-supervivencia-islamico-jamas-hubiera-existido-ayuda-turcos.html
    (in Español)

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