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| Greece and Israel accused Turkey of oil trade with ISIL
Greek defence minister: the majority of oil smuggled by Daesh is smuggled through Turkey.
On January 26 the defence minister of Greece Panos Kammenos has issued several statements after his meeting with the minister of defence of Israel Moshe Ya’alon. He told that Greek and Israeli military and diplomatic cooperation has common interests. A journalist asked him, “against which threat does this enhanced Greek-Israeli cooperation – with the possible participation of Cyprus, Jordan and Egypt – take place?” After minister’s answer the journalist put another question:
“Mister Minister, can Turkey become a part of the Cyprus-Greece-Egypt-Jordan axis and help, as the Europeans also wish, with the issues of immigration and terrorism? And under which circumstances?”
The answer was:
“We would all like Turkey to have good intentions and to come by our side for the common planning to face terrorism. We would all like Turkey to have a stance befitting international law and regulations. However, this requires a change of her attitude. In order to have a good relation and cooperation with a country, you need to recognize it first. Turkey still has not recognized Cyprus.
| The US and Turkey confirm alliance against Syria and Kurds
Two days before U.S. Vice President Joe Biden visited Turkey and met with Turkish Prime Minister Davutoğlu in Istanbul. They agreed for futher cooperation against Assad and his government in Syria as well as Kurdish movement for liberation and equated PKK to ISIL. “Daily Sabah” reports in detail:
| Turkish left state Erdogan’s party has Syrianised Turkey supporting sectarian terrorists
DIP (Revolutionary Workers’ Party), one of Turkish left parties, has issued communiqué on recent blasts in Istanbul. It states: “Those who dragged Turkey into the maelstrom of sectarian civil war and who thereby have Syrianised Turkey are responsible for the Sultanahmet massacre! The AKP and Erdoğan are guilty!”
“In Sultanahmet, one of the most touristic and central parts of Istanbul, a bomb attack of ISIL killed 11 persons and left dozens of people wounded. … From the political point of view, it is the AKP government and Erdoğan, trying to divide Turkey and the Middle East on the basis of sectarianism, who are responsible for this explosion. This has been yet another step on the way to the Syrianisation of Turkey. The AKP government is dragging Turkey into the maelstrom of sectarian war and every step of this government ends up with bloodshed and massacre. The AKP might drown in this maelstrom, but those who have lost their lives in the massacres are the toiling peoples and innocent persons”.
Left activists insisted that the Sultanahmet attack did not happen out of the blue. They had been warning for a long time that the takfiri-sectarian murderers were targeting in the Middle East not just Iraq and Syria, but also Turkey. “It had been pointing out that the AKP was leading Turkey down the road of Syrianisation and that Turkey was the mastermind of this reactionary war, along with Qatar and Saudi Arabia. This vile attack against German tourists is a result of the quagmire Turkey finds itself in while trying to assume the leadership of the Sunni bloc. All this cannot be understood outside the context of the reactionary war policy of Erdoğan and the AKP government”.
Public statements of Turkish authorities provoked several questions and suspicions: “Just after the Ankara massacre, Prime Minister Davutoğlu caused a major scandal by replying to a question about suicide bombers, “We have the list of suicide bombers, but we cannot arrest them before the realization of the act”. Having stood by idly after the Diyarbakır, Suruç and Ankara attacks, the government announced the name of the attacker immediately after this incident. Although the media apparatus of the AKP is saying that the case was painstakingly solved, Davutoğlu’s past and the mystery around the attack leave not a few questions unsolved. The publicity ban imposed after the attack exposes the intention of the AKP government. The people of Turkey should ask: Was it one of those suicide bombers whose names were known by Davutoğlu yet remained free who spilt the blood of innocent people in the heart of Istanbul? Or was it one of those takfiri militants who pass the Turkish border freely who committed the massacre? Davutoğlu is guilty.
This massacre is caused by the AKP, which carried the reactionary civil war in Syria to Turkey for its political survival. The AKP, by claiming that this attack was a result of Turkey’s struggle against terrorism, absolves its own role in these massacres.
DIP pointed out that Erdogan avoided to name terrorists by their real name and instead of this criticized his Syrian politics: “Erdoğan’s speech is a complete abdication of reason. Erdoğan, in his statement, listed the organizations that momentarily crossed his mind and once again created a so-called “cocktail of organizations”. He said that the bomber was a citizen of Syria and he avoided pronouncing the word ISIL. While only 44 seconds of his speech were related to the bomb attack, he dedicated 10 minutes to attack the academics who had published a petition for peace and overtly pointed to them as a target. This is the reflection of a psychology of guilt. Agents of the sectarian war, instigated for oil by Erdoğan, himself candidate for the leadership of the regional reactionary forces and aspirant “Rais” of the Sunni world along with Qatar and Saudi Arabia, have killed in cowardly fashion innocent people in Sultanahmet. Erdoğan is guilty”.
But not only Erdogan was mentioned. “On the other hand, deputy prime-minister Numan Kurtulmuş said that what happened was a repercussion of the proxy wars in Syria. Kurtulmuş, by using the expression “proxy wars”, admits that the imperialists and the countries of the region, including Turkey, support, in one way or another, certain organizations in the Syrian civil war. The executives of the AKP and its spin-doctors have repeatedly said that Turkey was helping and protecting Turkoman and Sunni takfiri forces in Syria. It is the AKP that has sustained the stooges of war in Syria, whose relations with their bosses were called “proxy” by Kurtulmuş. The AKP cannot so easily wash its hands of the sectarian terrorism which was sustained by this same party. Turkey officially considers ISIL a terrorist organization. Turkey was recently constrained to withdraw its troops from the Bashiqa base near Mosul, whose presence there had sparked a reaction from the Iraqi government. Lo and behold! Suddenly ISIL attacks the Bashiqa base with rockets. Erdoğan and the AKP used this as an excuse in order to maintain Turkey’s military presence in this region, saying “this attack proves that we were right”. When the Iraqi government insisted on complete withdrawal of Turkish troops, with another uncanny coincidence, propaganda videos of ISIL’s attack on Bashiqa were uploaded on the Internet. Let’s not fall in for this collusion of the AKP and takfiri forces. Both ISIL and the AKP are guilty”.
At the and of its statement DIP calls the working class and the oppressed should unite against takfirism and its benefactor, the AKP government as well against the imperialists of the European Union and the USA.
US-Iraq contacts
Jan 5 2016
Iraqi prime minister Dr. Haider Al-Abadi met on Tuesday with US Senator Jack Reed, a member of the Armed Services Committee in the US Senate, and his accompanying delegation.
During the meeting they discussed the war on Daesh terrorist gangs and victories achieved in Ramadi, and the situation in the region in addition to the challenges faced by Iraq in various fields.
| Turkish-ISIL Oil Trade: The Role of Britain, Israel, and the Kurdistan Regional Government
Turkish officials were involved in illegal transport of oil from Iraq long before the emergence of the so-called Islamic State (ISIL/ISIS/IS/DAESH). Their illegal trade expanded to the Syrian Arab Republic with the intensification of the conflict in Syria. Turkey, however, is not the only player involved in the illegal oil trade in Syria and Iraq. The operations of the Anglo-Turkish company Genel Energy PLC, which works in Iraqi Kurdistan and Malta, illustrates the constellation of financial and energy sector interests involved.
