Turkey’s Islamist Tyrant Warns: Help Syrian Terrorists or I’ll Let Kurds Die

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

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Turkey backed ISIS before the group turned on it. And now the Turkish Islamist thug in charge of the place is keeping Kurds from fleeing ISIS massacres into Turkey using heavily mobilized forces from the US… while refusing to do anything about ISIS.

This is genocidal blackmail.

The armed forces employed tear gas for the second day in a row to push people back from the border area which has become increasingly dangerous owing to mortars fired from Syria, an AFP correspondent reported.

“Leave or else we will intervene,” the security forces ordered through loudspeakers on trucks.

Which is exactly what you expect from Erdogan.

Not since the Red Army halted its tanks on the east bank of the Vistula have we seen a catastrophe shaping up as emblematic as that shaping up right now at the Syrian-Turkish border town of Kobani. In the World War II tragedy, the Red Army at first broadcast the call for the Free Polish Army to begin its uprising against the Nazis. They then refused to lift a finger to help them. So the Free Poles — democrats — were wiped out. Only then did the Soviets come in to seize what was left of Poland.

Fast forward to right now, when the city of Kobani, once home to 45,000 people, is under siege from the Islamic State and facing the kind of slaughter that the Islamic State has made its trademark.

Turkish tanks have looked on from across the border as the Islamic State tightens its siege of the Kurdish defenders, and they aren’t lifting so much as a trigger finger…

The Turkish cynicism is just something to behold. On the one hand, according to CNN, Turkey was preventing Kurds from crossing into Turkey from Kobani. CNN described refugees pressing up against a border fence, chanting, “We want to go across.” On the other hand, Turkey was reportedly preventing Kurdish volunteers inside Turkey from crossing into Syria to help with the defense of Kobani.

Now the Butcher of Istanbul is clarifying his blood price.

Kurdish fighters in Syria struggled to fight off Islamic State militants in Kobani on Tuesday, as Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, warned that border town was about to fall, despite new United States-led airstrikes on the militants.

Saying that aerial attacks alone may not be enough to stop the fighters’ advance, Mr. Erdogan called for more support for insurgents opposed to the group in Syria. In doing so, he was reiterating the key sticking point between Turkey and Washington: President Obama wants Turkey to take stronger action against the Islamic State, while Mr. Erdogan wants the American effort to focus more on ousting Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad.

That’s a polite way of saying that either the US overthrows Assad for Erdogan’s Sunni Jihadists or the US will be prevented from defeating ISIS and the Kurds will be massacred.

Either way the Butcher of Istanbul wins.

  • Pete

    The Turkish tanks on the border could swing wide and box the ISIS force between the Kurds and the Turks.

    However many ISIS fighters around Kobani are the # that would be enveloped and destroyed.

    Erdogan could do this but he does not want to do it.

    If we work with Erdogan, it will not be any different than how we worked with Pakistan. Scratch that. It will be worse. Pakistan while playing a double game at least let us transport supplies through Turkey. Turkey has not allowed us to do much since 2003.

    • Frau Katze

      Turkey not only dislikes the West, he dislikes the Kurds. He said that PKK (Kurdistan Worker’s Party) was the same as ISIS.

      • Pete

        If there was a Kurdistan “effected along clearly recognizable lines of nationality” Turkey would be the size of Greece or Kurdistan. Most every ethnic Turk (who is 30 to 40% Turkish by genetics) would be opposed to this. So Erdogan want to wipe ut the Syrian Kurds as a military and political force. PERIOD! FULL STOP!

        LET ME BE CLEAR. Obama, the fearless leader who speaks truth to power is good with this in so far as he does not want to call Erdogan on this nor does he want to rock the boat.

        A readjustment of the frontiers of Italy should be effected along clearly recognizable lines of nationality.

        • Frau Katze

          Good point. But Erdogan & Co are going to make things worse. I saw on Reuters (just a banner) that Turkish Kurds are protesting over his refusal to help in Kobani. With so many Kurds there, this could get violent. Of course, Erdogan is increasingly dictatorial and would use harsh measures to stop any protests.

          • Mike

            already started 9 dead in major Turkish cities

          • Bamaguje

            Erdogan is playing a dangerous game thinking he can use ISIS to pummel the Kurds.
            It could lead to a serious backlash with upsurge of Kurdish separatism within Turkey.

          • Pete

            The Kurds and Turks more or less came to a peaceful reconciliation within Turkey in the last decade.

            My understanding is that Kurdish kids can be taught Kurdish in school. The language will not be suppressed. Turkish is still the language of government.

            A nation has to have 1 governing language. Check. I am good with that.

            Ethnics get to keep their language; their language is not suppressed. Check. I am good with that.

            Attacks dropped off. there is still the PKK, who refuse to give up, but IMO they are more of nuisance. Turkey has a good political settlement and he is about spoil it so the specter of a Kurdish state in Syria or Iraq never arises.

            The Kurdish birth rate is higher than the Turkish birth rate. It is reaching the tipping point.

            With the additional Kurds (refugees) and the fresh grievances Erdogan is creating, Turkey could fall. Sunni ethnic Turks are not a majority.

            Between the Kurds, Alevis, secularists and others they make up a majority.

  • kasandra

    Well, he is one of our president’s five favorite foreign leaders.

  • Gee

    Turkey is too busy invading Cypriot waters to bother with Kurds

    • Bamaguje

      Yeah, and no one is talking about Turkish occupation of a European country.
      But Jews on their ancestral land are an “occupation” building “settlements.”

  • robert clark

    “For the Kurds, the American air strikes were the only hope, but they seem to have been more effective in Iraq,” he said. “There’s a valley to the south-west of Kobane that had 2,000 Isil vehicles in it for 11 days, yet the Americans have never targeted them. It’s as if they only want to scare them or do a little damage. I was in the south-west of Kobane and I saw an American air strike hitting a water pump belonging to a local farmer.”

  • robert clark

    The turks will never attack ISIS as they are all sunnis if they were shia the turks would be into this conflict cojones and all

    • Dan Knight

      Good point, I forgot about that!

  • truebearing

    Yet more evil unleashed by Obama. Erdogan is as ruthless and evil as they come, and he was/is Obama’s favorite head of state. Big surprise. Now Erdogan is trying to dictate US foreign policy and openly use tens of thousands of human lives as bargaining chips.

    How do Erdogan’s actions square with Turkey’s membership in NATO? Does NATO want to be party to yet another genocidal massacre involving the Turks?

    Erdogan’s play is obvious and the benefit is all his, and Islam’s. He is giving Obama a choice: support an Islamic caliphate or support my Islamic caliphate. Hostages are all expendable.

    A real president would order Erdogan to lay down by his dish, upon threat of expulsion from NATO, just for starters, but Obama will do nothing and let the Kurds die. Human lives mean nothing to him. His Coalition of the Pretending has been a predictable farce, though they have gotten real tough with empty buildings.

    • truebearing

      It seems obvious that Obama and Erdogan want Assad out more than anything else, and are willing to do anything to achieve that goal. They may well be conspiring together.

      In his sociopathic mind, perhaps Obama thinks he is being clever by letting ISIS defeat Assad, then letting his friend Erdogan pretend to defeat ISIS…just think, the Muslim branch of NATO will have expanded into Syria. Look at NATO go…right down the drain.

      If Turkey and ISIS tussle in a convincing bout of Sunni War Theater, NATO will be obligated to help further the Erdogan/Obama alliance for a Turkish caliphate. A neat trick by Erdogan…the Crusaders help re-establish the Ottoman Empire. Ironies would abound, nearly as much as betrayals.

      Something tells me ISIS won’t fight Turkey any harder than Obama is going after ISIS. ISIS can disengage, then slip across the border and concentrate on Iraq, or perhaps Lebanon. Then the Obama/Erdogan alliance can “save” it, too.

      Obama will then finally have a victory, of sorts, but it will be at the horrific expense of the Kurds, the long term viability of NATO, and the last shreds of US credibility, but at least Obama’s buddy, Erdogan, will have gained strategic territory.

      Just musings… but something has to explain the synergy between Turkey’s actions and Obama’s lack thereof.

  • Sara

    Keeping track of who’s in bed with whom is becoming tiresome with this constant switching.

  • Dan Knight

    Good work Daniel: Erdogan must be a piece of work to let people die while his troops watch.

  • Attila_the_hun

    Turkey’s problems just starting and Erdogan knows it.Just Today 15 people got
    killed and over 40 injured in Turkey’s predominately Kurdish border cities. in clashes with the police. The Turks can thank Obama for letting the wildfire in Syria spread into Turkey. Turkey can no longer oppress 20 million Kurds within its borders. The fall of Kobane can be the trigger that will set Turkey on fire

  • objectivefactsmatter
  • rbla

    The Kurds have been betrayed by successive US administrations going back to the first Bush. They are relatively progressive (by Muslim standards) and deserving of their own state.

  • Gee

    Of course Turkey would never do such a thing. I mean just days ago a Turkish scientist got a grant to research building concentration camps with gas chambers for Jews.

    http://pamelageller.com/2014/10/prominent-turkish-scientist-proposes-gas-chambers-for-jews-gets-grant-to-study-it.html/

    • UCSPanther

      Except the only problem is that there are no unarmed victims.

      It is going to be nigh impossible to herd a people onto a cattle car when they have their Tavors cocked, locked and ready to go against any future Blackshirts…

  • Matthew Johnston

    I am sure that the Turks are well aware that an RPG-7 and unlike the M1 and Israeli, Challenger, Leopard tanks not an RPG-29 is required for anti-tank warfare against those old hulks.

  • Lamia

    13,000 Kurdish civilians are trapped between Kobani and the Turkish border, because the Turks have sealed it. They are assisting in genocide. Time to kick Turkey out of NATO. If there is a resurgence in Kurdish terrorism against Turkey, it will have brought it upon itself.