Here is more indication that what is behind the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict is the same imperative that has been behind 1,400 years of aggression by Muslims against Christians: the Islamic call to “fight them until religion is all for Allah” (Qur’an 8:39).
“Turkey is Normalizing Militant Jihadism,” by Armen V. Sahakyan and Erik Khzmalyan, Providence, September 30, 2020:
What has been an open secret for years is no longer a secret at all: Turkey is in bed with terrorist organizations throughout the Middle East. Ankara’s destabilizer-in-chief Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has now extended his menacing military involvement to the South Caucasus, where Turkish army personnel are assisting Ankara’s satellite state Azerbaijan in a massive invasion against Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) and Armenia. But what grabbed international headlines are the appalling reports of Turkey’s deliberate misuse of the “religious card” in the Artsakh-Azerbaijan conflict and its transport of 4,000 jihadist terrorists in Syria to fight against Christian Armenians.
Turkey’s continued embrace of terrorist groups, including the Islamic State (ISIS), has caused havoc throughout the region. Ankara enabled the militants’ activities through weapon transfers, financial backup, and medical supplies. While the US and coalition forces conducted airstrikes to take out the ISIS militants following their proclamation of a global caliphate in 2014, the Turks provided a free passage for the Islamists to pour into Syria and Iraq. As one ISIS commander put it, “Most of the fighters who joined us [militants] in the beginning of the war came via Turkey, and so did our equipment and supplies.”
Although the extremist group has lost much of its territory in Iraq and Syria due to targeted airstrikes and strangled oil revenues, it still hopes to regroup for a comeback. Here too Ankara has been lukewarm about restricting the movement of ISIS operatives who run a network of front organizations in Turkey to generate income for the group.
As further evidence of this destructive phenomenon, Turkey has harbored and granted citizenship to a dozen members of the Hamas terrorist group.
Several media outlets report that Turkey’s recruitment of militant mercenaries began weeks before Azerbaijan launched its September 27 attack on Artsakh’s civilian settlements, indicating that the country planned the invasion and coordinated with Ankara beforehand. According to The Guardian, militants claim that they were told to visit Afrin, Syria, to meet with the commander of the Sultan Murad division, a rebel group that Turkey supports and is known for gross war crimes as well as anti-Christian fanaticism. A joint large-scale military drill involving Turkey and Azerbaijan in Nakhijevan just over a month ago was another worrying indicator.
Harboring and hiring terrorists is nothing new for Azerbaijan either, which the Aliyev clan has largely ruled since 1969. During the 1991–94 Artsakh-Azerbaijan war, Baku hired between 1,500 to 2,500 Afghan mujahideen, Chechen terrorists, and other mercenary fighters. Some of these militants gained combat experience and fought against the Russians in the embattled Northern Caucasus, and they fought American and coalition forces several years later, following the post-9/11 invasion of Afghanistan.
If not condemned in the strongest possible terms, Turkey’s use of jihadist militants for political ends will further normalize this practice. The United States and the world community must respond to Ankara and Baku’s challenge swiftly and decisively.
mortimer says
Turkey’s genocide against Christians continues! And they are proud of it. Genocidists often ANNOUNCE the genocide before committing atrocities … EXACTLY what Turkey did in the reversion of Hagia Sophia to a mosque. They want to turn ALL churches in the region into mosques. Only then will Erdogan’s followers be satisfied.
DavidR says
His ego appears to be insatiable. A first class, top tier, most exposed narcissist who has the power to meddle, cause trouble and be a real pain the azz. And, as you say, not interested in the opinion of anybody but his own.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Mortimer.
LB says
And the world yawns. What else is new. There have been hundreds, if not thousands, of reports of Turkey actively working against the interests of the West (to whom they’re supposedly “allied” to) and other non-muslims / non-Turks. To this day there are no reactions from any world powers. At this point, even if Turkey starts another ethnic genocide within their borders, openly killing and raping non-Turks in the streets by the thousands, I doubt anyone will bat an eye. Just another episode of “Turkey gets away with anything because they’re muslims”. Move along, nothing to see here folks.
Fred van de Bunt says
NATO (Turkey) has it’s ways.
Funny that NATO Turkish F-16 warplanes are bombing Armenian christians now? I suppose that is because these Armenian christians are against NATO democracy?
NATO Erdogan Turkish Arib spring democracy building ISIS islamists are bombing the crap out of these bad NATO democracy hating Armenian christians?
Anybody sees a problem in that, or sees any contradiction in that?
underbed cat says
Yes, the U.S. should boot Turkey off the list to protect……but you know he had his fun with being tolerant of Christians or Jews or non muslims but took a side…..maybe he was just fooling around for a while to get arms. This is confusing which country is Islamically ruled and which in this conflict is not? So Islamic immigration is the key to turning countries into sharia locations not unlike the U.S. that has now mosques popping up as peaceful, beautiful that is the fib or big lie so they can eventually attack the country from with in that starts with protests in cities to gain control since they are mass migrating into every state and our leaders are suppressed by an aligned press.
This is Islamic deception to create confusion and two narratives,or hidden hand.
Vladimir says
Eventually Russia is going to have to do something about this fire being set on it’s southern Caucasus region frontiers, a fire set by the arsonists in Istanbul.
ElderlyZionist says
The sooner the better.
GreekEmpress says
+1
Vladimir says
Problem is, even though Russia has military bases in Armenia, the government of Armenia these days was explicitly Anti-Russian when they came to power. However if it gets too bad or if Russians are accidentally killed…
gravenimage says
Unfortunately, Russia is also playing footsie with Turkey now.
And sadly, the Soviets oppressed the Armenians for decades (albeit not the the genocidal extent of Turkey)–she is now rather understandably leery of Russia. I do hope this changes with time.
Boycott Turkey says
Turkey and Azerbaijan committing war crimes using NATO weapons to bomb Churches and Hospitals the Dictator of Azerbaijan Aliev reminds me of one those Pashas who committed the Armenian Genocide history is repeating itself and The world stays silent while Armenians are suffering and being persecuted by Turks and Jihadist it was Azerbaijan who broke the ceasefire Armenians had nothing to lose by breaking it
Walter Sieruk says
President Erdogan of Turkey along with his devote Muslim officials that government are really deluded fools to embrace ISIS as well as other dangerous and violent and deadly jihad entities. Of this folly only harm death and destruction are the likely outcome of policy of evil.
Just to take that ISIS jihad entity by itself. it’s murderous a wicked enough ,yet its also very destructive of many human achievements , be it art, , music or literature. That’s what ISIS does best is to destroy. ISIS destroys people and thing ,good things . What is called by some that Islamic “state” just destroys .
For the violent jihadists , as those of ISIS, are strong in destroying ideas and things are what many jihadist /Muslims do best. As revealed in this following essay.
The Muslims who make up the jihadists of that heinously murderous and destructive jihad entity ,ISIS ,with all their awful violence are best at one things which creating inflecting death on humans and disaster and destruction The ISIS /jihadists never create or make anything of value, or that is good and worthwhile . They are only destructive and not ever constructive. The jihadists of ISIS destroy people, buildings , both religious and non-religious building , They destroy other kinds of architecture , both ancient and modern architecture, Thy destroy music, they destroy literature and manuscripts .Those jihadists of ISIS with their jihad for Islam only destroy .
As for the last two items of value on this above list which the ISIS/ Muslim destroy. Which are literature and manuscripts this is an example of who history can repeats itself. In this case with ISIS and Muslims the jihad for their religion . For in ancient history and for years after the close of ancient history there was the grand and wonderful Library of Alexandra in Egypt which building that contained much literature and many manuscripts of great value and worth . Then in the year AD 642 came the zeal- filled Muslim warriors who then destroyed building that was that library and all the valuable manuscripts and literature contained in the building. As was in those destructive jihad-minded Muslims in the year 642.who destroyed it all . So it is with the jihad –minded Muslims of ISIS in the twenty -first century .They just destroy.
To become more clear regarding the history of warrior /jihadist Muslims with their closed Islamic minded and which now is reflected by the destructive actions of the warrior/ jihadists of ISIS is the following .
“The Library of Alexandria was he center of intellectual life in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, holding scrolls of all Greek literature and thought, joined by the Latin works once the Romans started writing anything worth reading. In AD 642 shortly after the founding of Islam ,a Muslim army captured Alexandria , and their leader said “If those book are in agreement with Koran, we have no need of them: and if those are opposed to the Koran , destroy them.” [1]
The only thing that Erdogan and his foolish Muslims friends in government are embracing by accepting those Islamic terroir entitles is the embracement of disaster.
[1] The Greeks by Diane Harris Cline , pages 212,213.
b.a. freeman says
“the world community must respond to Ankara and Baku’s challenge swiftly and decisively”
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it boggles the mind that free people cannot see the blatant hypocrisy and evil of erdogan. after i learned of the evil of the gangsta cult of islam, this question was foremost in my mind. the people who are leaders in a nation are not stupid; they know, if nothing else, how to manipulate people to get their way. so … if they are the elites in a nation, and have a good racket going, then *WHY* would they want to see that nation destroyed? there are only 2 answers: either they don’t know about the cult and don’t realize that it is dangerous, or they *DO* know and really *DO* want to see society destroyed. and the only group of which i am aware that wants to achieve the latter goal is the hard-core left, who want to re-make society AND its citizens, by destroying society and rebuilding it from the ground up, while also changing the citizens into “perfect” socialist people, who no longer have the same human nature that has existed from the beginning of humanity. hard-core leftists tend to be secretive and exclusive, limiting their numbers; furthermore, probably more than half of all citizens of the u.s. are nominal leftists (as opposed to hard-core), so that at least the same proportion of the bureaucracy is also nominally leftist. this ensures that the elites are almost certainly leftist, which means that most of them have no idea how poisonous islam is. they look to the “smart” people they know, who are always hard-core leftists, usually at universities; [ sarc ]of course these people wouldn’t lie to them [ /sarc ], so when they are told over and over again by their hard-core “betters” that islam is just one more stupid religion that is pap for the masses, nobody looks for himself. that would take critical-thinking ability, which they didn’t learn while being indoctrinated in public “schools.” thus, i am convinced that most of the clowns who are running civilized nations into the ground are actually clueless about both islam and the hard-core left; they think communism is the hard-core left, while communism is only one branch of it. they don’t understand that in the early 20th century, while communism was exercising genocide in the soviet union, german socialism (the most robust branch of which became nazism – national SOCIALISM) and italian socialism were both led by people who had either been syndicalists or socialists, or both. the right-wing specter the nominally-leftists see in nazism and italian fascism actually came from syndicalism, in which organizers tried to turn entire sectors of a nation, inicluding all labor in the area, into areas governed along socialist lines. syndicalism was very much a leftist delusion, and had a huge effect on fascism (both the german and italian versions).
i soon learned that in every group of muslims, there will be roughly 10% who will be fundamentalists (i.e., would have been considered “good muslims” by muhammed), so that by bringing lots of muslims into a nation, the hard-core left can build a proxy army with no effort on their part, no assistance to the proxies, and no blame to be placed on the left (because of no direct connections to the pious ummah), which proxy will strive to destroy society … which is EXACTLY what the hard-core left wants to do. remember: the enemy of my enemy is my (current) friend … so long as i need him.
thus, i can assure all that *NOTHING* will be done about erdogan.
gravenimage says
‘Turkey’s continued embrace of terrorist groups, including the Islamic State (ISIS), has caused havoc’
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Too true. Turkey is no ally of ours, and should have been expelled from NATO years ago.
Aleksander says
All written is true. Any denies?