Posted on 11/26/2015 5:56:20 AM PST by VitacoreVision
Turkey has blatantly provided material support to the Islamic State because they share an ideological connection along with a common foe in Syrian President Bashar Assad, former US Department of State senior advisor David Phillips told Sputnik.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - On Wednesday, Russian Ambassador to France Alexander Orlov said that Turkey has played an "ambiguous" role in the campaign against the Islamic State while acting as an accomplice to the terrorist group's activities.
"Turkey's role has not been ambiguous - it has overtly supported the Islamic State," Phillips, currently Director of Columbia University's Peace-building and Rights Program, told Sputnik on Wednesday. "It has provided logistical support, money, weapons, transport and healthcare to wounded warriors."
Phillips explained that Turkey has been supporting the Islamic State to remove Syrian President Bashar Assad from power and because of a "spiritual bond" that exists between Turkey's governing party and the jihadists.
"When the Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey says women shouldn't smile or laugh in public because it draws attention to themselves, that is something you would expect from [Islamic State leader Abu Bakr] Baghdadi," Phillips added.
Phillips also said that Russia's support for Assad has not been helpful to resolving the problem, and he is not surprised that Russia and Turkey ended up in a live fire incident considering their conflicting goals.
Turkish Warplanes Enter Iraqi Airspace, Resume Strikes on Kurdish Bases In September, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters at the UN General Assembly that Russia was not wedded to anyone in Syria nor concerned with any one personality, but Russia is concerned with keeping Syria sovereign, independent and secular.
On Tuesday, a Turkish F-16 fighter jet shot down a Russian Su-24 aircraft operating in Syria, which Russian President Vladimir Putin described as a stab in the back carried out by accomplices of terrorists.
Russia commenced precision airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria on September 30, following a request from Syrian President Bashar Assad, and has destroyed more than 3,000 terrorist targets.
Flashback:
Turkey threatens Russia over bid to OBLITERATE sick Islamic State terrorists
RUSSIA and Turkey are in deadlock after the latter threatened Moscow with “serious consequences” if it continues its bomb assault on Syria.
Express UK
Nov. 22, 2015
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Turkish military says Turkey’s national intelligence service (MIT) shipped weapons to al-Qaeda
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/01/turkey-syria-intelligence-service-shipping-weapons.html
Al-monitor
January 15, 2015
Vlad could just go ahead and bomb the hell out of Turkey....Obama won’t do a thing but roll over in bed and kiss his friend.
As a matter of fact, North Korea could take out LA and the twit would do the same.
We should be thankful that in the Alternate Universe,
the US Pentagon did NOT arm al Qaeda, did NOT protect ISIS
(and misname it ‘ISIL’ to reflect its demand that it
attack Israel), but did -like the Egyptian Army- remove
the Moslem Brotherhood cancer in its Capitol.
In this Universe, however, 911 was followed by
Hasan, release of the Cole bombers, release of ISIS
Generals, Benghazi, its coverup, .....
Sputnik (news agency)
Sputnik is an international multimedia news service launched on November 10, 2014 by Rossiya Segodnya, an agency wholly owned and operated by the Russian government, which was created by a Decree of the President of Russia on December 9, 2013.[2]
Sputnik replaces the RIA Novosti news agency on an international stage (which remains active in Russia)[3] and Voice of Russia.
RT [Russia Today] has been called a propaganda outlet for the Russian government[10][11][12] and its foreign policy[10][11][13][14] by former Russian officials[15] and by news reporters,[16] including former RT reporters.[17][18][19]
It has also been accused of spreading disinformation.[20][21][22]
The United Kingdom media regulator Ofcom has threatened RT with sanctions because of repeated violations of its rules on impartiality.[23]
The network states that it offers a 'Russian perspective' on global events.[24]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_%28TV_network%29
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Nov 2015...
Vladimir Putin's media Svengali who was found dead in DC hotel was 'murdered for being an FBI informant'
"Nicknamed the 'Bulldozer', Lesin was one of the key props of the Putin presidency, personally masterminding a wide-ranging media crackdown which has left the vast majority of Russian TV stations and newspapers obedient to the Kremlin."
The US will soon face a choice, an it already has made the wrong on, ....twice.
You should hook up with McGruff. He’s been spamming Sputnik all morning.
If Turkey is shown to have supported the very jihadis against which other NATO members are at war — then Turkey has forfeited any claim it might have had for support from NATO against Russia.
Please don't use words like "hook up" when referring to me and Putinista McGruff. People might get the idea I'm on his side. :)
Right, boot them from NATO of ISIS support then let Russia bomb the hell out of them.
The bad guys are taking over both sides of the next big conflict.
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Putin needs to send a couple of KGB guys into Turkey and take Erdogan out. Then if Erdogan is replaced by another islamist snake that backs ISIS, take that one out, too.
I don’t give a shirt about Syria, Turkey, Russia, Iran or Saudi Arabia.
I don’t give a shirt about the pocketbooks of Soros, Hillary Clinton, Barrack Obama or the Democrat Party.
I do care about The United States Of America. I care about our citizens. I especially care about our citizens in the military.
There is way too much secrecy about what our country is doing in the Middle East. If the President is unable to explain our reasons for fighting there, then maybe we shouldn’t be fighting there.
Our military doesn’t exist to be the enforcers for Democrat Party mobsters.
Kind of suspected this. Especially from their behavior at Kobani.
Bomb Turkey.
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