Turkey-ISIL Secret Oil Business Confirmed by Western Officials
In a report published on Sunday, The Guardian quoted an unnamed senior Western official as saying that evidence on direct dealings between Turkish officials and ranking ISIL members was “undeniable.”
According to the Western official, the documents on the undeclared alliance were obtained following a US raid on the compound of the key ISIL figure, Abu Sayyaf, in Syria in May, which led to his killing.
“There are hundreds of flash drives and documents that were seized there,” the official said. “They are being analyzed at the moment, but the links are already so clear that they could end up having profound policy implications for the relationship between us and Ankara.”
The ISIL operative was responsible for smuggling oil from fields in eastern Syria. The oil then found its way into the black market to become the main driver of revenues for ISIL, with Turkish buyers as its main clients.
Turkey has been facing criticism for facilitating militants’ border crossings to join ISIL in Syria, which has been grappling with foreign-backed militancy since March 2011. Ankara has also been criticized for providing assistance to Takfiri terrorists waging war in the Arab country.
The report comes against the backdrop of airstrikes conducted by the Turkish military against targets controlled by Takfiri ISIL terrorists inside Syria as well as the positions of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in northern Iraq.
Turkish Army Pounds Syrian Kurdish Village
“A number of shells fired by Turkish tanks fell on the village of Zur Maghar, which is controlled by the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG),” the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday, Press TV reported.
The director of the Britain-based observatory, Rami Abdel Rahman, said those wounded in the overnight attacks were not members of the YPG fighting alongside the Kurds against the ISIL terrorists.
He added that the shelling appeared to be the most serious Turkish targeting of Kurdish-held areas in the Syrian conflict.
Zur Maghar lies in the Northern Syrian province of Aleppo on the border with Turkey.
In a statement, the YPG confirmed the “heavy tank fire”, saying the attack also wounded several villagers.
It said there was a second, later round of shelling against Zur Maghar and another village in the same area.
“Instead of targeting ISIL terrorist occupied positions, Turkish forces attack our defenders’ positions,” the statement said.
“We urge (the) Turkish leadership to halt this aggression and to follow international guidelines. We are telling the Turkish army to stop shooting at our fighters and their positions.”
The attack came as ambassadors of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) are scheduled to hold a meeting in the Belgian capital of Brussels on Tuesday for talks called by Turkey over Ankara’s military operations against Takfiri ISIL terrorists and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) group.
Turkey launched a military campaign against what it purports to be ISIL targets in Syria and PKK positions in Northern Iraq on Friday, following an attack in the Southwestern Turkish town of Suruç, which claimed the lives of at least 32 people, on July 20.
ISIS Sell Syrian Children and women for prostitution in Turkey
Investigators examining the links between Ahmet Yumuşak and the terror group are said to have discovered the 29-year-old talking with potential clients about the price of sex with refugees, Daily Man reports.
He allegedly recommended certain women to his ‘customers’, who were inquiring about paying for sex with young females fleeing the Syrian warzone for what they had believed to be the safety of Yumuşak’s native Hatay region of southern Turkey.
Yumuşak’s alleged crimes came to light after local detectives launched an investigation into an attack by ISIS militants on police officers in the Turkish town of Niğde in March last year.
11 people, including Yumuşak, have already been charged in connection with that attack, according to Turkish newspaper Hürriyet.
Investigating officers using wiretaps to investigate the case are said to have caught Yumuşak arranging for vulnerable Syrian refugee women to have sex with ‘customers’, even going as far as to make personal recommendations, saying: ‘the 16-year-old one is terrific’.
The alleged people smuggler has since been charged with forcing underage girls into prostitution
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