{"id":52315,"date":"2015-01-12T12:00:14","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=52315"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:27:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:27:04","slug":"report-erdogan-trying-to-hide-evidence-of-supporting-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/01\/report-erdogan-trying-to-hide-evidence-of-supporting-isis\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Erdogan Trying to Hide Evidence of Supporting ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"

6 Jan 2015 – <\/em>Turkey\u2019s regime is trying to hide any evidence that holds\u00a0Turkish leaders responsible for the support of terrorist groups, especially the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Turkish media is reporting.<\/p>\n

Turkey officially denies all accusations that it supports\u00a0activities of terrorists and allows\u00a0them to pass through its territory to fight the Syrian regime. Ankara has repeatedly called for the ouster of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.<\/p>\n

The Arab news website Al-Watan Al-Arabi<\/a> (Arabic link) quoted Turkish media sources as saying that West\u2019s intention to investigate the relationship between the Turkish regime and the Islamic state organization raised Turkish president\u00a0Recep Tayyip Erdogan\u2019s fears. This fear\u00a0caused him to have Hakan Fidan, the head of Turkey\u2019s\u00a0intelligence service and Erdogan\u2019s right-hand man,\u00a0get rid of any\u00a0evidence\u00a0that could be used against him in international courts.<\/p>\n

Erdogan reportedly instructed the intelligence agencies to hide all evidence and documents that show the involvement of the Turkish government in supporting ISIS, out of fear of being charged in international courts for supporting a terror organization.<\/p>\n

Experts believe that Turkey turns a blind eye to militants who are going to Syria to join extremist groups via Turkish border crossings.\u00a0They stress that\u00a0Turkey, despite being a NATO member and having broad logistical and regulatory powers, facilitates this traffic out of hope that it will increase the possibility of the fall of Assad\u2019s regie.<\/p>\n

For example, some pro-Kurdish media outlets reported recently that a car bomb driven by a suicide bomber came from the Turkish border and exploded at the Syrian border crossing near Kobane, which raised questions about Turkey\u2019s commitment to fighting ISIS. Additionally,\u00a0many young men who went to fight in Syria and Iraq and then returned to their homes acknowledged that they had walked through Turkish border crossing and cooperated with \u201cmediators\u201d to cross into \u201cthe land of jihad.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition, international officials accused the Turkish state of not doing enough to stop the fighting in Kobane, located just on the Syrian side of the border, where local Kurdish forces are battling ISIS.\u00a0Analysts also say that the escape of Turks\u00a0from extremist forces raises the level of concerns about coordination\u00a0between the Erdogan regime and the militant jihadist groups.<\/p>\n

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6 Jan 2015 – Turkey\u2019s regime is trying to hide any evidence that holds Turkish leaders responsible for the support of terrorist groups, especially the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Turkish media is reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-east-north-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}