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| The Grand Turk | |
| Russia 'has proof' Turkey's Erdogan benefits from IS group oil | |
| 2015-12-03 | |
| [FRANCE24] Russia has proof that Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and his family are benefiting from the illegal smuggling of oil from territory held by 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.... (IS) group in Syria and Iraq, the country's defence ministry said Wednesday. The claim was the latest volley fired in a war of words between Moscow and Ankara that erupted last week when a Turkish air force jet shot down a Russian warplane near the Syrian-Turkish border, the most serious incident between Russia and a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... state in half a century. At a briefing in Moscow, defence ministry officials displayed satellite images which they said showed columns of tanker trucks loading oil at installations controlled by the IS group in Syria and Iraq, and then crossing the border into neighbouring ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... The officials did not specify what direct evidence they had of the involvement of Erdogan and his family, an allegation that the Turkish president has vehemently denied. "Turkey is the main consumer of the oil stolen from its rightful owners, Syria and Iraq. According to information we've received, the senior politicianship of the country -- President Erdogan and his family -- are involved in this criminal business," said Deputy Defence Minister Anatoly Antonov. "Maybe I'm being too blunt, but one can only entrust control over this thieving business to one's closest associates." Antonov pointed the finger at the recent appointment of Erdogan's son-in-law Berat Albayrak as energy minister and alleged that the president's son runs one of the country's main energy companies. "In the West, no one has asked questions about the fact that the Turkish president's son heads one of the biggest energy companies, or that his son-in-law has been appointed energy minister. What a marvellous family business!" "The cynicism of the Turkish leadership knows no limits. Look what they're doing. They went into someone else's country, they are robbing it without compunction," Antonov said. Erdogan: 'I'll step down if claims are proven' Erdogan responded by saying no one had the right to "slander" Turkey by accusing it of buying oil from the IS group and vowed to stand down as president if such allegations were proven to be true. "I won't stay in the seat of president for even one minute if Russia proved its claims. But those who spread this slander shouldn't retain their seats either," Erdogan said in comments broadcast by Turkish television on a visit to Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... "Turkey has not lost its moral values so as to buy oil from a terrorist organization," he added. On Tuesday, US President Barack Obama I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go... said Turkey had made progress in sealing its border with Syria, but the IS group was still exploiting gaps to bring in imported muscle and sell oil.
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Can there be any doubt that Erdogan, a Muslim Brother, and Obama, a Muslim Brother sympathizer are in cahoots? Obama denies attacks on the IS-held oil infrastructure and trucks. Thus captive oil flows to market through resource-poor Turkey and the Erdogan family benefits. What a deal! |
| Posted by: Spomong Bourbon8696 2015-12-03 09:12 |