Wiretapped
calls reveal communication between Turkish officers and ISIS –
report
Turkish
officers on the Syrian border have communicated with Islamic State
militants in Iraq and Syria, Turkey's Cumhuriyet daily reported,
citing an investigation by the Ankara Chief Prosecutor's office which
allegedly eavesdropped on their phone calls.
The
wiretapping reportedly took place last year as part of an
investigation into six missing Turkish citizens, the
Cumhuriyet reported.
The relatives of those missing believed they might have joined the
ranks of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) militants.
An
investigation was launched into as many as 27 suspects, some of them
in Syria, the report revealed.
The
Chief Prosecutor's office reportedly received permission to wiretap
the phones of 19 people who were thought to have put the six missing
persons in touch with Islamic State. The investigation reportedly
revealed that those who wanted to join IS ranks received some form
of “ideological
training.”
The
file on the investigation is said to have been handed over to the
Military Prosecutor's office in March, after the Ankara Prosecutor's
office deemed the issue outside of its jurisdiction, according to the
Turkish newspaper.
“Those
[who joined ISIS] from Ankara often used [the] Elbeyli district [of
Kilis] as a throughway by traveling via Gaziantep and Kilis to the
village of Able, which is subordinated to Syria's Al-Bab
district,” the
report said, as cited by
newspaper Today’s Zaman.
A
note written in one of the transcripts for the wiretappings allegedly
states that the person designated in the transcript as “X2” is
considered to be a member of the military, the Cumhuriyet reported.
One
of the conversations is said to be as follows:
--Yes,
brother.
X2: We are on the mined land where I delivered the vehicle. We have put our lights on. [We have the] material on us; come here with your men from that side…
X2: We are on the mined land where I delivered the vehicle. We have put our lights on. [We have the] material on us; come here with your men from that side…
Ankara
has recently faced a number of accusations alleging it has bought oil
from IS and let terrorists freely pass through Turkey's border with
Syria. A newly-leaked report on illegal oil sales by Islamic State,
compiled at the request of Norway, revealed that most of the
IS-smuggled oil has been destined for Turkey, where it is sold off at
bargain low prices.
In
early December, the Russian Defense Ministry also released evidence
which it said shows most of the illegal oil trade by IS goes to
Turkey. Ankara has denied the пallegations.
Iraqi
MP and former national security adviser, Mowaffak al Rubaie, told RT
on Tuesday there is “mounting evidence” from all over the world,
including Iraq, that “Turkey is playing not a very clean game,”
when it comes to Islamic State.
“Turkish
authorities need to do a lot more than what they are doing now to
come clean from the accusations that they are siding [with], or at
least that they are turning a blind eye to, the movement of these
terrorists from Turkey to Syria and Iraq and vice versa,” the
MP said.
Top Turkish 'traitors' according to Erdogan and Davutoglu
(L-R)
Can Dundar, Eren Erdem, Selahattin Demirtas
What
does it take to be accused of “treason” in Turkey? Exposing the
ruling circle's ties with terrorists and voicing opposition to the
downing of a Russian plane is a start, but who are the people getting
under the skin of President Erdogan and Prime Minister Davutoglu?
Daesh perverts reportedly conducts slave trade via office in Turkey ~ [Video Report]
A Turkish legal firm has filed a criminal complaint against the country’s law enforcement and intelligence agencies. That’s after the German broadcaster, ARD, aired a documentary, alleging that Daesh is conducting a slave trade via an office in Turkey. It involves women and children from the Yazidi Kurdish minority who were kidnapped in Syria.
ISIL Ringleader’s Mobile Phone Confirms Turkey’s Support for Terrorism
Fars
News Agency 21
December 2015
A
commander of the Iraqi volunteer forces (Hashd al-Shaabi) revealed
that a mobile phone found with one of the killed ISIL ringleaders
proved the Turkish spy agency’s support for the terrorist group.
“The
mobile phone was found with one of the killed ISIL leaders in the
Northern parts of Salahuddin province two days ago,” Jabbar
al-Ma’mouri told Soumeriya news on Monday.
He
said that the mobile set and history files contain messages from the
Turkish intelligence agency which show that Ankara supports the ISIL
terrorist group through providing security at the points of entry
used by ISIL militants from Turkey to Iraq.
“The
mobile phone also contains other important information which cannot
be disclosed now, and it has been delivered to the specialized
security groups for further scrutiny,” Ma’mouri said.
In
relevant remarks on November, Russian Ambassador to France Alexander
Orlov said that Turkey has played an “ambiguous” role in the
campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)
while acting as an accomplice to the terrorist group’s activities.
Also
last month, former US Department of State senior advisor David
Phillips said Turkey has blatantly provided material support to the
ISIL because they share an ideological connection along with a common
foe in Syrian President Bashar Assad.
“Turkey’s
role has not been ambiguous — it has overtly supported the ISIL,”
Phillips, currently Director of Columbia University’s
Peace-building and Rights Program, said. “It has provided
logistical support, money, weapons, transport and healthcare to
wounded warriors.”
Phillips
explained that Turkey has been supporting the ISIL to remove Syrian
President Bashar Assad from power and because of a “spiritual bond”
that exists between Turkey’s governing party and the jihadists.
“There was a journalist to document this from the Netherlands, but as soon as these hostilities by Turkish government began they made the journalist persona non grata, bought her a ticket and sent her home. As far as I know there are no independent observers here.”
WHY ‘TURKEY CAN EASILY BECOME A NEW SYRIA’
100
Kurdish women and children were killed in southeastern Turkey over
the past six months, said the Human Rights Watch and added that the
number is not exact. The victims died during government special
operations and armed clashes.
©
AFP 2015/ Bulent Kilic
Originally
appeared at Sputniknews
Tensions
between Turkish authorities and Kurdish opposition escalated in July
after the latter broke a ceasefire agreement and accused Ankara of
supporting Daesh (Islamic State). After, HRW called on the Turkish
government to suspend military operations and launch a full-scale
investigation.
Kani
Xulam, Kurdish activist and director at the American Kurdish
information network spoke to Sputnik in an exclusive interview saying
that Ankara would never do that.
He
spoke about how the Turkish government is waging cultural genocide on
Kurds.
“Curfews
have been imposed in the number of cities and people cannot step
outside. There is bombing going on and if people are injured they
cannot get to the hospital. Electricity and water have been cut off.
It is an undeclared war that Turkey is waging on its Kurdish civilian
people in cities throughout south and east of the country,” Xulam
told Sputnik in an interview.
He
further said, “There are 20 million people living in the country
with no basic human rights, no political rights and are forced to
assimilate Turkish culture, language and literature. The Kurds are
saying that they have had enough and they want local autonomy.”
The
activist called this a cultural genocide and ethnic cleansing in a
sense that people are not allowed to express themselves. He said that
this is against the international law and against any norms. “Turkey
is denying the very existence of the Kurds in its constitution and is
forcing them to be assiхmilated.”
“The
fury is that what is happening in Syria can easily be duplicated in
Turkey. The fault lines are exactly the same in Turkey where the
Sunni majority wants to impose on Kurds and Alawites. Turkey could
become easily like Syria,” Xulam said.
He
further noted that, “Turks will never investigate their own abuses.
They never had, they never will. It could end up in a civil war.”
Talking
about whether there are independent observers and international
journalists who could highlight the situation of the Kurdish people,
Xulam said,
“There was a journalist to document this from the Netherlands, but as soon as these hostilities by Turkish government began they made the journalist persona non grata, bought her a ticket and sent her home. As far as I know there are no independent observers here.”
The
activist said that Turkish journalists try the best they can to
report on these clashes but they are imprisoned if they report
against the Turkish government.
Some 100,000 People Flee Homes Amid Clashes Between Ankara, PKK
More than 100,000 people were displaced due to the Turkish forces' operations against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), according to Turkey's Interior Ministry.
24
December, 2015
ANKARA
(Sputnik) — Some 100,000 people have been displaced due
to armed clashes between Turkish security forces and
militants from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in the
country's majority-Kurdish southeastern regions, Turkey's Interior
Ministry said on Thursday.
Severe
clashes between Ankara forces and PKK militants have been
arising sporadically since a July terror attack in the city
of Suruc, which killed over 30 people, most of them
Kurds. As Kurds killed two Turkish policemen soon after the
attack, Ankara launched a military campaign against PKK. The
clashes intensified earlier this week in the southeastern city
of Diyarbakir.
The
Turkish forces' operations are being carried out in the
southeastern districts of Diyarbakir, Silopi, Silvan, Sur and
Cizre, where the PKK has a strong presence.
The
authorities also declared a police curfew in area most affected
by the armed clashes, with a population of 1.3 million
civilians.
Over
100,000 of them have been forced to flee their homes due
to the ongoing violence and domestic hardships, according to an
Interior Ministry report that was cited by the Hurriyet
newspaper.
According
to the ministry, the security forces have taken control of eight
of the 13 high-risk areas where the PKK militants were trying
to establish autonomous areas, not controlled by the
central government.
The
Kurds, Turkey's largest ethnic minority, are striving to create
their own independent state and gain independence from Turkey.
The PKK was founded in the late 1970s to promote the
self-determination for the Kurdish community. The PKK is
designated as a terrorist group by Turkey.
The
Kurdish struggle for independence gave rise to a conflict
between Ankara and various Kurdish militant groups that has been
ongoing since 1984.
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