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Turkish Cops Say Superiors Protected ISIS Weapons Smuggling
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On November 7, 2014 @ 8:03 am In The Point | 5 Comments
Turkish acrobats are the best in the world. Its AKP regime manages to be in NATO and ISIS at the same time. If Turkey ever enters the EU, it can balance it out with joining the Islamic State.
Detained policemen standing trial on charges of wiretapping have claimed that they were prevented from putting suspects linked to the al-Qaeda terrorist organization and other groups affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) under close surveillance.
Muhammed Suad Çelen, one of the policemen who delivered his defense statement, said all the wiretapping activities were conducted legally and with a court decision, adding that there was no way the policemen could have benefitted from the wiretapping.
Çelen said the police intelligence unit ordered them not to conduct surveillance regarding al-Qaeda after Syria-bound trucks carrying weapons were intercepted in the southern province of Adana in January. He claimed that one Turkish police officer and one soldier were killed in Niğde by al-Qaeda militants because the terrorists could not be wiretapped.
“All of us are now a target for al-Qaeda,” Çelen said.
Çelen’s lawyer, Ali Aksoy, said the primary reason for the trial is his client’s investigation of ISIL. He added that the intelligence unit chief blocked him from conducting work to expose ISIL militants.
An alliance with Turkey is an alliance with Al Qaeda. The rise of ISIS and its easy access to Turkey reminds us that the road to terror leads through Istanbul.
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