As
Erdogan gears up to bully the Kurds out of their own land and clear off the
Northeastern parts of Syria, his role of favoring the ISIS is becoming clearer.
Reports
have been doing rounds that if Turkey has not stopped them; it has neither done
anything to control its movement across its border either.
It
has been reported on many instances that ISIS have moved across the Syrian
Turkish border and gone unchecked. Strangely, it was Russia which sounded the
warning cry against Turkey in the first place. Today, both arch enemies have
united forces in Syria and seem to be watching each others’ back against US.
Meanwhile,
NATO and the EU nations are troubled with the way Erdgoan is becoming an
authoritarian dictate. He is flaunting every rule possible and been pushing for
a safe zone in Syria to re-home 3 million Syrian refugees. Little is known that
the 30 km stretch will give him direct access to Syria’s rich oil reserves.
While US had thought it could have got a strong hold before hand, retracting
its forces that had been helping Kurdish forces and holding back ISIS was a bad
decision on Trump’s part.
It
has gone in Erdogan’s favour. Now, he can continue to support ISIS and not be
held up for it either. But when Turkey shot down a Russia Sukhoi, all hell
broke loose, as Putin spilled the beans on how Turkey was buying oil off ISIS
to keep them funded and hence wanting a strong hold in Syria.
In
a press statement, Putin could say, “We have every reason to think that the
decision to shoot down our plane was dictated by the desire to protect the oil
supply lines to Turkish territory.”
He
continued his
harsh remarks, clearly identifying Turkey as ISIS’s henchman, “This incident
stands out against the usual fight against terrorism. Our troops are fighting
heroically against terrorists, risking their lives. But the loss we suffered
today came from a stab in the back delivered by accomplices of the terrorists.”
It has been later discovered by US sources that
while the amount of oil being smuggled in rather low, Turkey does not stand to
gain monetarily. The only other plausible explanation can be that Erdoğan is
not interested in the benefit that would accrue from the trade but rather in
‘allowing jihadists to sustain their campaign through the income they generated
from the smuggling of oil to Turkey by means of brokers.’
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