The Communist daily Morning Star is hardly a reliable source. However, there is nothing unbelievable about this report. Turkey’s support for the Islamic State in its heyday was obvious in numerous ways. Back in 2015, in my book The Complete Infidel’s Guide to ISIS, I noted that Erdogan was aiding the Islamic State in the ultimate hope of co-opting its caliphate and making it part of his own revived Ottoman caliphate. Even though the Islamic State has lost its domains in Iraq and Syria, Erdogan has not given up on that hope. His connections to the Islamic State should be investigated, with Turkey’s alliance with the U.S. and NATO membership on this line.
“Senior Isis commander alleges Turkey’s President ordered 2014 attack on Kobane,” by Steve Sweeney, Morning Star, October 30, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
TURKEY’S authoritarian President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ordered the deadly 2014 jihadist attack on Kobane in northern Syria, a senior Isis commander alleged today.
Taha Abdurrahim Abdullah, a close confidant of Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi – who died earlier this week – was captured by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces militia alliance in March this year.
He told his captors Mr Erdogan had insisted that Isis attack the largely Kurdish border town in northern Syria in September 2014, despite the jihadists’ reluctance.
“We [Isis] were preparing war, but our goal was to move to Damascus, not Kobane,” he claimed under interrogation.
“[Former Isis leader] Baghdadi wanted Kobane to be attacked. We objected to this situation. But he refused. We suffered heavy losses in Kobane.
“Later, we learned that the reason why Bagdadi turned our direction to Kobane overnight was the insistence of the Turks. The Turks wanted to attack Kobane. Erdogan insisted,” Mr Abdullah alleged.
The jihadists captured around 350 largely Kurdish villages surrounding Kobane during the offensive, causing some 300,000 people to flee for their lives, and also conquered some districts of the town.
A six-month siege followed, with Kurdish-led People’s Protection Units (YPG) putting up fierce resistance.
The YPG lifted the siege in January 2015 and retook control of the villages by mid March, helped by US air strikes.
However, around 70 per cent of Kobane was destroyed in the battle.
Mr Abdullah also claimed that the slain Isis leader’s replacement was chosen for his close links to the Turkish state.
Abdullah Qardas, also known as Haci Abdullah, was announced as the new Isis leader following Mr Baghdadi’s death.
Saying that Mr Qardas also calls himself “Ebu Omer Turkmeni,” Mr Abdullah claimed: “He uses this name to appease the Turkish state and to deepen his relations with them.”…
The US cooperated with the Turks to double cross its allies the SDF (Kurds & Arab fighters against ISIS)? Is that why the US started using the Turkish rhetoric calling the YPG terrorists and PKK instead of the SDF? Why the double cross? The US had the SDF take down their bases with the artillery before the Turkish attack and then let Erodgan and his Islamist terror affiliated army attack the SDF and clear Kurds out of their homes.
Full article at https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/What-did-the-US-know-about-Turkeys-Syria-invasion-plans-606758