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

Posted By Daniel Greenfield On October 7, 2014 @ 3:15 pm In The Point | 24 Comments

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.


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