Turkey admits supporting terrorism

Mauaz Mohamed

In September 2019, U.S. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his country supported ISIS, despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement that Ankara would participate in the process of eliminating Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the group’s leader, on October 27, 2019.

For its part, announced the Turkish authorities, on Saturday, November 16, 2019, the arrest of 25 people relatives «Baghdadi», a security operation involving four different states in the country.

The Turkish Court in Karshehir province has decided to detain four relatives of the leader of the organization pending investigation, on charges of belonging to the terrorist organization “Daesh”, and handed the rest of the 21 suspects, including two children, to the same state to send them to a deportation center.

The announcement of the Turkish authorities as a recognition of the embrace of a large number of «Daesh», and involvement in helping the organization, especially as it was arrested on its territory and not abroad, as this confirms their presence in the country, before «Trump» Ankara’s participation in the elimination of Baghdadi .

On Nov. 12, 2019, Turkey’s Anatolia news agency quoted Erdogan as saying before his departure to the United States that Turkey would “continue to send ISIS terrorists back to their countries, and we are not interested in receiving them or rejecting them.” Your positions on Turkey, which holds so many ISIS elements in its prisons, and seized them on the Syrian side ».

Although the Turkish President announced the seizure of these foreigners on the Syrian side, following the military operation “ spring of peace ”, launched by his country there October 7, 2019, there was no news at the time about Ankara’s arrest, but enable them to escape, which supports the idea The existence of ISIS on those lands before.

According to a report by the European Center for Combating Terrorism and Intelligence, based in the Netherlands, October 13, 2019, titled: «How Turkey got involved with ISIS? Ankara has three camps for training and recruiting jihadists, in the city of Kerman, Osmania and San Lilurfa Urfa.

The report also said that Turkey supports terrorist organizations through funding and deals to purchase stolen oil from oil refineries in Syria and Iraq, in addition to facilitating access to dangerous materials used in the manufacture of explosives, and providing treatment for ISIS casualties in Turkish hospitals.

The report stressed that Turkey is turning a blind eye to the Islamic State’s presence in the southern Gaziantep region, as well as recruiting Ankara fighters from the terrorist organization to participate in the attack on the Kurdish region of Afrin in northern Syria, January 2018.

The report points out that Turkey has trained the militants of the organization to change their military tactics, through the adoption of new methods different from car bombs and suicide attacks, so as not to show Ankara’s cooperation with IS, which is causing international criticism.