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| The Grand Turk |
| Kurds Suspect Turkey Of Backing Islamic State |
| 2014-09-26 |
| [IsraelTimes] On Thursday, about 1,000 Kurdish activists arrived at the border after a more than 750 mile (1,200 kilometer) overnight bus ride from Istanbul in response to a call for mass mobilization by the imprisoned leader of the PKK rebel group, Abdullah Ocalan. The activists held a rally chanting: "Down with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... and AKP partnership," referring to Erdogan's Justice and Development Party, as black smoke and the sound of gunfire from the battle between Islamic State and Kurdish Death Eaters drifted over the border. Turkey vehemently denies it has supported ISIS, which until recently was holding dozens of its diplomatic staff hostage. Officials have also said in recent days that they remain committed to the grinding of the peace processor with Kurds in Turkey. But many Kurdish activists say they believe that Turkish intelligence trained the Islamic State group and provided it with the heavy weaponry that it is using in an offensive against Kurds in Iraq and Syria. Analysts say that the Death Eaters seized much of their heavy weaponry from garrisons, especially when they captured djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... in Iraq in June. Activists who came to the border said they planned to camp there until Turkish authorities let them across. Some were prepared to join the fight to protect Kobani, a Syrian city just miles (kilometers) away that has been under siege by the Islamic State and emptied except for the Kurdish fighters protecting it. Ramziye Bozkurt, a 35-year-old woman, originally from Diyarbakir in Turkey's Kurdish heartland, accused the Turkish government of ongoing support to the murderous Moslems, saying that participation in the coalition "was just a show." "The Islamic state has taken these villages and killed our people," she said, gesturing at the smoking hilltop in the distance. "This is just a new way for Turkey to suppress the Kurds." For Bozkurt and others, the ultimate evidence is that Turkey was preventing them from crossing the border to support the fighters. "If Turkey were not supporting the Islamic State, why wouldn't they let us go?" she said. Turkish law bans people from going to war in a foreign country, but Turkey has tolerated other Death Eaters transiting its borders to fight the government of Bashir al-Assad. Despite Turkey's efforts to stop them, many Syrian and Turkish Kurds have been finding ways to cross over to Kobani in recent days -- and it's not clear how robust Turkey's efforts have been to block them. Ahmet, a 30-year-old man, who declined to give his last name for fear of repercussions, said that he had come on the orders of "Apo," as Kurds refer to Ocalan, and would join the fight across the border. "We came here to die," he said. He added that he wanted peace in Turkey, but that if Kobani fell, the grinding of the peace processor would be dead and violence could break out again in Turkey. Over the last week, the Islamic State offensive has taken the group to within miles (kilometers) of the city, but since coalition Mesut Yegen, a sociologist at Istanbul Sehir University, who focuses on Turkish nationalism and Kurdish issues said "It is a highly likely that if the United States had not intervened and Kobani had fallen, the grinding of the peace processor could not have continued," he said. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 I suspect Sun will raise in the East, tomorrow. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-09-26 16:30 |
| #1 Not sure about officially "backing" ISIS, but the Turks certainly have not lifted a finger to interdict them prior to now, and have been (allegedly) a conduit for Qatari money (and logistics) going to ISIS. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-09-26 15:42 |