Turkey Demands Syria’s Help against ’ISIL’

By Hussein Mortada

Shortly had the so-called "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" [ISIS] been formed when the so-called "Free Syrian Army" [FSA] lost dominance over many regions, especially as "ISIL" launched a military campaign against the "FSA's" brigades all over Syria.

As this organization now maintains great dominance over Syria's north: Aleppo, Idlib, Raqqah, and Deir az-Zour, particularly Aleppo's northern city, Azaz, which lies close to Turkey's borders, it is now a good reason for everybody's fear. To the organization, all others are enemies.

Game is now unveiled. Information says the Turkish intelligence is the one currently moving the "ISIL": Turkey has made a deal with the organization so that the latter does not assail its borders. That is, in case the "ISIL" loses seizure over Azaz, infiltrating Turkey will be rendered easier, and its stability and security will be attacked. In this regard, Turkey has suffered much. Realizing this, as well as the fact that the "ISIL" has no "friends" and that it might therefore assail Turkey anytime, the Turkish intelligence rushed for a deal with the organization, hitting out at the "FSA".

Turkish intelligence officers made their orders to "ISIL" commanders, requesting that the organization destroy the "FSA's" phalanges and brigades in the regions that "ISIL" could dominate. The condition was to stay away from Turkey's security.
Another reason for the deal was Turkey's discontentment with the "FSA"; for financial reasons, "FSA" commanders had refused accomplishing major missions assigned to them as suicide bombings and shelling vital regions of the Syrian capital after the Syrian military's successful military campaign in Damascus's surroundings.

Not failing to remember the Kurdish cause, the Turkish intelligence made it clear through its understanding with the "ISIL" that the Turkish government still supported "ISIL" by thronging its fighters along the borders to break into Ras el-Ayn city, Efrine's surroundings, and the Tal Abyad regions in ar-Raqqah and al-Qamishli.
And so has Turkey been doing: obviously providing arms and ordnance for "ISIL" and moving the wounded to its hospitals after any clashes in Turkey's inside [Gilan, Akpinar, and Urfa].
In the meantime, the "ISIL" is fighting everyone in Syria; Turkey has produced the "green light", allowing the organization to seize Azaz and expel the so-called "Free Syrian Army" from it. Eventually, Turkey seeks protecting its territories from any "ISIS" attacks, especially as "ISIL" is merciless when it comes to its own interests.

Observing sources say that the Qatari intelligence, beginning to withdraw its previously dominant forces from the regions aforementioned, held an urgent meeting with the "FSA's" remaining commanders in Turkey. It was decided that the "FSA" would be armed better and that the international community would be pushed towards believing that the "FSA" "had fallen victim for extremists". That way would ensure the best percentage possible of international support to arm the "FSA" combatants. In contrast, all observers could see how disappointed Saudi Arabia was; it had refused Turkey's request to make Bandar Bin Sultan meet Turkish intelligence senior figures in Ankara.

But it became time for the Turkey to suffer the consequences of its own "magic"; having seized regional dominance and controlling the smuggling of stolen oil from Syria, the so-called "Islamic State of Iraq and Sham" organization began threatening all to strike their stability and security. Turkey was the first to be threatened by the organization's revolt.

It started when "ISIL" demanded that the Turkish intelligence open Turkey's borders to "ISIL" armed combatants, allow arms and food aids in, and provide camps for "ISIL's" families, but the Turkish intelligence refused so, observing sources say. Turkey was actually trying to pressure this organization and stop its sudden, quick spread that Turkey itself had allowed. Turkey was also trying to restrict the organization's combatants so as to gradually weaken the organization and protect itself from the organization's danger. "ISIL", however, threatened to "burn" Turkey in case no camps were made for the "ISIL's" families and no food aids, arms, and armed groups were allowed in.

Indeed, the Qatari and Turkish intelligence learned that "ISIL" had already begun preparing for striking the Turkish government by bombing loaded vehicles at the heart of Turkey, the observing sources further say. The next step for the "ISIL" was to conduct operations against the Turkish military; the operation center would be the "ISIL's" seized Azaz, from which all "Free Syrian Army" combatants would be expelled. A Turkish coordination officer and an "ISIL" commander had a great disagreement, eventually leading to a threat made by the organization, the sources add.

So "ISIL" quickly spread its combatants along Turkey's borders, showing its "power" versus the Turkish military. In a campaign for the Turkish media, on the other hand, they launched a barrage against the Islamic charity affiliated with Erdoǧan, the "IHH" [Humanitarian Relief Foundation], which had already done much to support extreme organizations acting in Syria, particularly "ISIL" and "al-Nusra Front".
Observers reveal that "IHH" played a major role in recruiting combatants in Kavkaz and the former Soviet Union states into the "ISIL" and "al-Nusra Front" organizations. "IHH" as well made great efforts to reach the furthest Wahhabi groups in states like Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Chechnya, recruit volunteers, and take them to Syria.

As Turkey feared escalation along its borders, it tried to communicate messages to Syria, asking for help to eradicate these extreme groups. But the Syrian security forces made no answer.

Source: Al-Ahed news