It certainly sounds as if you are correct. Now the question is whether the ISIS types will unite with the Islamist elements.
Erdogan was already co-operating with ISIS with one hand while his other hand was on our side. Erdogan had or has dreams of the revival of the Caliphate and ISIS serves well to institute that then Erdogan expected that Turkiye the proper home of the Sultanate that protects the Caliphate would take over from ISIS with appropriate stranglings and other traditional methods of transfer.
Erdogan was already co-operating with ISIS with one hand while his other hand was on our side. Erdogan had or has dreams of the revival of the Caliphate and ISIS serves well to institute that then Erdogan expected that Turkiye the proper home of the Sultanate that protects the Caliphate would take over from ISIS with appropriate stranglings and other traditional methods of transfer.