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Turkey ISIS oil
Ankara defends ISIS, Turkish officials have financial interest in oil trade with group – PM Medvedev. And there is this article “Is Turkey On The Path To Restoring The Ottoman Empire?” I would say this shows that Erdogan is in cohort with ISIS . Could the Zetas say something about this? [and from another] I have a question about downed Russian jet Su-24. Was it something more than self-defence by Turkey? Was it a response for attacks on ISIS oil business and Turkmen rebels? And since Erdogan doesn’t look so happy, could it be a provocation by a 3rd party? [and from another] http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-07-31/turkey-path-restoring-ottoman-empire President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s push to consolidate his power by transforming the country into a presidential republic was derailed last month when the pro-Kurdish HDP which won 13% of the vote. [and from another] http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-19/most-important-question-about-isis-nobody-asking By selling the oil on the black market at a discounted price of $40 per barrel (compared to about $93 per barrel in the free market), ISIS takes in $3.2 million a day. [and from another] http://russia-insider.com/en/fight-against-isis-russia-aint-taking-no-prisoners/ri11296 Putin debunked – graphically – to the whole G20 the myth of a Washington seriously engaged on the fight against Daesh: “I’ve shown our colleagues photos taken from space and from aircraft which clearly demonstrate the scale of the illegal trade in oil.” He was referring to Daesh’s oil smuggling tanker truck fleet, which numbers over 1,000. Apparently acting on Russian satellite intelligence, the Pentagon then miraculously managed to find tanker truck convoys stretching “beyond the horizon,” smuggling out stolen Syrian oil. And duly bombed 116 trucks. For the first time. The key reason the Obama administration had not thought about this before is Turkey. Washington needs NATO member Ankara for the use of the Incirlik air base. And then there’s the sensitive subject of who profits from Daesh’s oil smuggling. Turkish Socialist party member Gursel Tekin has established that Daesh’s smuggled oil is exported to Turkey by BMZ, a shipping company controlled by none other than Bilal Erdogan, son of “Sultan” Erdogan. [and from another]https://www.rt.com/news/323373-ankara-defends-isis-medvedev/ Some Turkish officials have ‘direct financial interest’ in the oil trade with the terrorist group Islamic State, Russian PM Dmitry Medvedev said as he detailed possible Russian retaliation to Turkey’s downing of a Russian warplane in Syria. Russia is considering canceling several important projects with Turkey and barring Turkish companies from the Russian market. Russia may further scrap a gas pipeline project, aimed at turning Turkey into a major transit country for Russian natural gas going to Europe. [and from another] https://www.rt.com/news/323369-turkey-downed-russian-jet/ Ankara and Moscow have conflicting versions of what exactly happened. Ankara claims the Russian Su-24 frontline bomber was downed after it violated Turkish airspace. The alleged violation reportedly lasted 17 seconds. The Russian military says the jet never entered Turkish territory and the Turkish F-16 fighter itself breached Syrian airspace. Turkey claimed it had warned the bomber 10 times in five minutes before the F-16s fired air-to-air missiles. The Russian military said that the Turkish F-16 jet that shot down the Russian warplane had entered Syrian airspace in order to attack in an act that violated Syria’s sovereignty. [and from another]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/putin-accuses-turkey-of-supporting-isis-after-russian-fighter-jet-downed-in-syria_56546a91e4b0879a5b0c54aa The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that Syrian rebel fighters brought down the Russian helicopter with a missile. Turkey has expressed concern for the Turkmen, a Sunni Muslim minority community that opposed Assad, who are targeted by Russian and Syrian regime airstrikes in Syria. [and from another]http://www.infowars.com/flashback-turkeys-prime-minister-caught-arming-isis/ Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu ordered a media blackout after the military’s Gendarmerie General Command discovered around 50 rockets, 35 crates of ammunition, including mortar rounds, and Douchka anti-aircraft ammunition hidden inside Syria-bound trucks operated by Turkey’s intelligence agency. [and from another] http://middleeast.about.com/od/israel/a/Israeli-Position-On-Syrian-Conflict.htm Hostility between Syria and Israel goes back to the countries’ creation in the late 1940, driven by Syria’s support for the Palestinian resistance against the new Jewish state.
This border clash was almost inevitable given the differing alliances in the region. The US and NATO are bound by old treaties, old allies, as is Russia. The area is also rift with civil war between various Muslim sects, primarily Sunni and Shia. Saudi Arabia, an ally of the US, is Sunni as is ISIS and the majority of Syria. Iran, an ally of Russia, is Shia as is the majority of Iraq. The US had until recently been trying to assist an overthrow of the Syria dictator, Assad, because Netanyahu resented him for his support of Palestinians. But the Syrian rebels joined with ISIS and the US stopped arming them. Russia, France, and the US have lately been a coalition against ISIS.
Enter Turkey. The Kurds, a Turkish minority, have been the most effective boots on the ground fighting force against ISIS. Erdogan stole the last election and resents the rising Kurdish minority in Turkey. The Erdogan family has been profiting from acting as a broker for ISIS oil trucked into Turkey from Syria and Iraq. The US had been looking the other way as they have a base in Turkey, a NATO member, and did not want yet another fight among allies. Russia has entered the fray against ISIS, aggressively attacking them on all fronts. Turkey expected their oil profits to continue.
This has now become a disaster for Turkey. NATO and the US will, as expected, stand with Turkey at least publicly, proclaiming a border violation. Privately Turkey is being scolded. Turkey is wrong on all counts, and this is obvious to the world. But what is worse for Turkey is the turn of events in their relationship with Russia. Russia had recently begun construction of a gas pipeline to Europe through Turkey, because of the conflict in the Ukraine. This will now halt. With Russia increasingly a presence in Syria, destroying ISIS, oil from Syria and Iraq will now be limited. The illegal oil via ISIS will stop. Turkey has suddenly become an oil and gas pauper!
