ISIS Commanders Claimed to Have “Full Cooperation” w/Turkey in Kurdish Genocide

U.S. President Obama shakes hands with Turkey's PM Erdogan after a bilateral meeting in Seoul

Turkey may be a member of NATO, but as much as 60 percent of the country, which has repeatedly voted in Islamist governments, hates NATO and is allied with ISIS. The evidence of that continues to pile up.

A so-called US ally is not only allied with terrorists, but is involved in genocide.

A reluctant former communications technician working for Islamic State, now going by the pseudonym ‘Sherko Omer’, who managed to escape the group, told Newsweek that he travelled in a convoy of trucks as part of an ISIS unit from their stronghold in Raqqa, across Turkish border, through Turkey and then back across the border to attack Syrian Kurds in the city of Serekaniye in northern Syria in February.

“ISIS commanders told us to fear nothing at all because there was full cooperation with the Turks,” said Omer of crossing the border into Turkey, “and they reassured us that nothing will happen, especially when that is how they regularly travel from Raqqa and Aleppo to the Kurdish areas further northeast of Syria because it was impossible to travel through Syria as YPG [National Army of Syrian Kurdistan] controlled most parts of the Kurdish region.”

“While we tried to cross the Ceylanpinar border post, the Turkish soldiers’ watchtower light spotted us. The commander quickly told us to stay calm, stay in position and not to look at the light. He talked on the radio in Turkish again and we stayed in our positions. Watchtower light then moved about 10 minutes later and the commander ordered us to move because the watchtower light moving away from us was the signal that we could safely cross the border into Serekaniye.”

Until last month, NATO member Turkey had blocked Kurdish fighters from crossing the border into Syria to aid their Syrian counterparts in defending the border town of Kobane. Speaking to Newsweek, Kurds in Kobane said that people attempting to carry supplies across the border were often shot at.

Omer explained that during his time with ISIS, Turkey had been seen as an ally against the Kurds. “ISIS saw the Turkish army as its ally especially when it came to attacking the Kurds in Syria. The Kurds were the common enemy for both ISIS and Turkey. Also, ISIS had to be a Turkish ally because only through Turkey they were able to deploy ISIS fighters to northern parts of the Kurdish cities and towns in Syria.”

“ISIS and Turkey cooperate together on the ground on the basis that they have a common enemy to destroy, the Kurds,” he added.

It’s time to kick Turkey out of NATO. As long as Turkey remains in NATO, then NATO remains complicit in genocide.

  • SoCalMike

    I guess it’s too much to expect mere generals and colonels to speak truth to Obama’s and the State Department’s power.
    We are aiding and abetting the animals we should be fighting and betraying the people we should be helping.
    This can only end badly.
    What was a media and academic fringe of treason during the Cold War has morphing into the mainstream Left.
    They aren’t stupid. Their values are diabolical and cynical plus they lie and conceal the truth.
    Jonathan Gruber perfectly illustrates this when he says everybody lies.
    He’s just projecting himself and like minded party members onto everyone else.

    • gerry

      The people know that they were betrayed,no need to tell them.

    • objectivefactsmatter

      Gruber is not the only Gruber. Just a sample of who runs our government by “crafting” our laws and policies.

  • gerry

    ISIS is the child of Turkey,Qatar.and the US.

    • Pete

      I remember deducting the money from your paycheck and sending it to Al Baghdadi himself.

  • Hard Little Machine

    This has always kind of been the Turkish plan with Obama’s tacit approval.

    • Exsaint

      Any plan that harms the US and its interests has Obama’s approval.

  • Gee

    There is no provision in the NATO agreement to expel any member for any reason

    • Hard Little Machine

      It would tend to simply fall apart of its own accord.

      • http://libertyandculture.blogspot.com/ Jason P

        Perhaps it is overdue. It was a Cold War alliance when Western Europe was weak. In short order, France bolted. Perhaps a new continental European Defense Alliance would be a healthy step.

        Plan B: Demand that Israel replace Turkey or we leave!

    • Texas Patriot

      Presumably NATO is governed to some degree by Parliamentary procedure. Why not put it to a vote? Turkey’s out or we’re out. Take your pick.

  • Pete

    “Turkey may be a member of NATO, but as much as 60 percent of the country, which has repeatedly voted in Islamist governments,”

    It has been that way since 1999 and the MSM ignores it. the WSJ reported o it extensively.

    I have been looking for a shift or changes. Turkey (& Israel) has gay pride parades unlike the rest of the Middle East. They grew every year and people, would point to them and argue that Turkey is getting more modern.

    But I think the liberal groups in Turkey have taken as much public space as they can and have come up to hard stops much as ISIS took a lot of easy territory and then came up against hard stops.

    There is now way that the liberal or moderate proportion of the Turkish nation will go from 40 to 60% anytime soon. There has to be an impetus and there is none.

  • sami

    Israel should be in Nato. Not Turkey!!! Turkey has oppressed and killed us kurds for generations. it has to stop NOW!!!! because its an american ally they fooled the west into thunking us peaceful and freedom loving kurds are terrorists when they are the biggest terror state in the world. but the world is starting to relize now what crooks they really are. america should stop their alligance with these isis supporting fashist state and instead focus and aiding only kurds and israelis. the only normal and loyal people of middle east

  • Exsaint

    Now Erdogan is claiming that Muslims discovered America prior to the Europeans. There can only be one reason for him to make such a claim. Turkey and Erdogan are NOT our friends and should not be trusted.

  • LiberatedCit

    I had a turk trolling my twitter that I got into an argument with over the sailors being attacked. I remembered coming across articles about Turkey’s support of ISIS.

    Ex ISIS Member Reveals Turkey, a NATO Member, Is Supporting Islamic State

    http://www.christianpost.com/news/ex-isis-member-reveals-turkey-a-nato-member-is-supporting-islamic-state-129462/

    This one I came across today while going back to look for the originals. Mind you I have no idea if this writer is a good/bad guy, but he makes some good points.

    How realistic is the Turkish strategy for Syria?

    http://www.todayszaman.com/columnist/emre-uslu/how-realistic-is-the-turkish-strategy-for-syria_364544.html

  • Anthony Coleby

    Just as perhaps 50% of the turkish population probably prefer the Daeshi
    (ISIS) scum to a somewhat lesser evil that is the West there is a large
    historical Kurdish populace in Turley that have been treated dreadfully
    over the years.

    The general Turkish populace still treat’s
    Kurds as lesser subjects with limited rights!They have always shown a
    grand desire to eliminate all that lands historical minorities for
    centuries while clinging it’s own failing state that is what is left of
    the Turkish Ottaman empire!
    It really is time Turkey either declared
    it’s self part of the European Union or took up the black flag of the
    Daesh cause, either way it will soon be time to see their true colors!
    The
    US the UN and the EU would be well advised and seen be cheered with I’d
    say 85% popular support globally in the Western world if they removed
    the PKK from the terrorist list as they are going to be one of the Wests
    strongest & steadfast battle prooved allies in that part of the
    world soon as the local YPG & YPJ militia are proving worthy allies
    and moralely stronger than a better armed foe.Besides the current idiocy
    we have wrought we as Great Britain and the West all owe the Kurds
    something better after all the broken promises going back to WW1. :C

  • Anthony Coleby

    Iff any good muslim would say something good I’m sure the West would listen but unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be any good muslims speaking good words for the last 200 years or so! Certainly not in your homelands?

  • Symphon
  • Matthew Johnston

    Sand on the boots, they pulled themselves off the line in the Stan green on blue, that is how insurgencies are won, ambush, never follow 3 ARA.

  • http://journal.metacommunity.info/ Sean Champ

    Perhaps it was a remark intended as if to intimidate the Kurdish people — and how would I guess that? I’d call it a conclusion made in a sense of intuition, but maybe there are other words for it.

    Personally, I don’t believe all of Turkey’s actions resemble the actions of Attaturk. I do believe that there is a broader picture, though.