This photograph shows ISIL commander Abu Muhammad, April 16, 2014, allegedly receiving free treatment in Hatay State Hospital after being injured during fighting in Idlib, Syria.
A captured ISIS rebel currently being tried in Turkey told attorneys that Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) helped terrorists smuggle arms to opposition forces in the early stages of the Syrian Civil War.
Today’s Zaman reported, via The Right Scoop:
Mehmet Aşkar, one of the 11 suspected members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) currently being tried by the Niğde High Criminal Court, has said that Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) helped them smuggle arms to opposition groups in Syria during the early stages of the country’s civil war, a Turkish daily has reported.
According to a story published in the Cumhuriyet daily on Monday, Turkish authorities are trying to divert public attention from the case because the prosecutor’s dossier has details which reveal the involvement of MİT in arms smuggling.
The 11 suspects in the case include a Syrian Turkmen who is allegedly linked with the anti-regime Free Syrian Army (FSA) and radical groups such as ISIL and al-Qaeda affiliates. Haisam Toubaljeh, also known as Heysem Topalca and who is also a suspect in the Reyhanlı attack case, according to Hürriyet, is believed to have been involved in numerous cases of smuggling as well as a transfer of rocket warheads to Syria that was intercepted in November 2013 by security forces in the southern city of Adana.
Aşkar said in the dossier that he had given his vehicle to Topalca in 2011 in the Yayladağı district of Hatay province when Topalca told Aşkar that he was planning to bring arms from Syria to Turkey and then send them to rebel groups in Syria. Aşkar added that Topalca had told him that forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had seized some towns in northern Syria, blocking the previous routes that the rebel groups had used to transfer arms.
The Kurdish media documented several instances of Turkey’s support for ISIS in pictures.
Turkish soldiers snapping a souvenir photo with elements of the ISIS.
#Turkish soldiers snapping souvenir photo with elements of the #ISIS•
#Turkey is a #NATO member.
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#Kurds
#SaveKobani pic.twitter.com/Np45sy8O8a
— KURDISTAN ARMY (@KURDISTAN_ARMY) October 10, 2014
Supporters of ISIS with the Turkish army and police.
Supporters of the #ISIS with the police&Turkish army.To kill Kurdish protesters.have been killed 30 Kurdish civilians pic.twitter.com/RooNKFTUkd
— KURDISTAN ARMY (@KURDISTAN_ARMY) October 10, 2014
Ultra-nationalists in Gaziantep, Turkey attack Kurds while flashing the ISIS hand sign.
This is Gaziantep,#Turkey where ISIS bases are located-ultra nationalists-racists mobs attacking #Kurds with Pro ISIS pic.twitter.com/cL8zA0GHJU
— KURDISTAN ARMY (@KURDISTAN_ARMY) October 9, 2014
