Why isn’t the media covering Turkish President Erdogan’s ties to ISIS
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Posted on 09/21/2019 9:43:18 PM PDT by OddLane
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During his 2017 New York visit, Erdogan met with then-freshman U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN). This past July, state-run media chiefs called on Turks around the world to donate to her re-election campaign, which is illegal if they are not U.S. citizens or green-card holders.
But what should disturb Americans most about Erdogan is not his efforts to influence Congress, his abysmal record as a jailer of journalists, his genocidal war against the Kurds, or even the $100 million mosque he has constructed in Lanham, Maryland...
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His army watched Kurds get slaughtered and he bought tons of oil from ISIS
In a just world he would be charged for war crimes.
Erdogan is a madman and I expect him to start a war with Greece any time now.
Turkey needs to be kicked out of NATO.
Erdogan is a product of EU influence. They were unhappy with the military control as a guarantor of Constitution in Turkey.
Per the article
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Why isn’t the media covering Turkish President Erdogan’s ties to ISIS
By Kenneth R. TimmermanSeptember 21, 2019 | 2:32pm
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Recep Tayyip ErdoganAnadolu Agency via Getty Images
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has pitched his tent at New York’s glitzy Peninsula Hotel this week, where he will be dining (but not wining) American Muslim leaders on the sidelines of UN meetings.
During his 2017 New York visit, Erdogan met with then-freshman U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN). This past July, state-run media chiefs called on Turks around the world to donate to her re-election campaign, which is illegal if they are not U.S. citizens or green-card holders.
But what should disturb Americans most about Erdogan is not his efforts to influence Congress, his abysmal record as a jailer of journalists, his genocidal war against the Kurds, or even the $100 million mosque he has constructed in Lanham, Maryland.
It’s Erdogan’s commitment to global jihad, and specifically, to ISIS terrorists. Since 2012, the Turkish intelligence service, MIT, under Erdogan’s direction, has been providing resources and material assistance to ISIS, while Turkish Customs officials turned a blind eye to ISIS recruits flowing across Turkey’s borders into Syria and Iraq.
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Scores of ISIS fighters captured by pro-U.S. Kurdish forces in northern Syria showed Turkish exit stamps on their passports, and otherwise boasted of the direct assistance they had received from Turkish authorities.
“Turkish intelligence knows everything,” one captured ISIS fighter told his Kurdish captors recently.
Many former ISIS fighters have now joined the Turkish-backed forces that have occupied the Syrian Kurdish city of Afrin, where they have engaged in ethnic cleansing.
Two Turkish intelligence officers, captured by Kurdish guerilla fighters in northern Iraq in 2017, provided insider accounts of Turkish government assistance to ISIS and other jihadi groups operating in Syria and Iraq.
Turkey’s assistance to ISIS starts right at the top. In 2016, Wikileaks published an archive of 58,000 emails documenting the involvement of Erdogan’s son-in-law, Berat Albayrak, in helping ISIS market oil stolen from Syria and Iraq.
Sümeyye Erdogan, daughter of the Turkish president, reportedly set up an entire medical corps, including a hospital to treat wounded ISIS fighters in Sanlurfa, a city in Southeastern Turkey close to the Syrian border.
ISIS evacuated severely wounded fighters across the border into Sanliurfa in Turkish army trucks without undergoing Customs inspection.
The evidence of Erdogan’s direct, personal and institutional support for ISIS and related jihadi groups is so extensive, the wonder is why the American media is not paying more attention to it.
Sorry, accidentally posted the whole article when I was just trying to post a few excerpts.
The second part is so irritating as it fully discloses where Turkey is at today... “teamed up with ISIS”
He has to go.
Why would anyone in the Deep State owned media do anything except praise the guy, if that.
I was in Turkey in 1982. Even then, I never thought the Turks were our allies at all. I still don’t.
Because the media is on the side of the hate America caliphate and wants this country destroyed and then rebuilt as a totalitarian m*slim dictatorship?
During his 2017 New York visit, Erdogan met with then-freshman U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN).
I was in Turkey in 1982. Even then, I never thought the Turks were our allies at all. I still don’t.
For decades Ken Timmrman has been a superb reporter on Iran and the Middle East. His is the opposite of ‘fake news’.
Because monarchs are held to different standards than mere, mortal men?
Sultan Erdogan isn’t one of the great unwashed, after all. :P
His is the opposite of ‘fake news’.
The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets, the faithful our soldiers.
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