Erdoğan and ISIS: ‘Protection’ exposes fake war on terror
An ISIS terrorist suspected of involvement in a bloody massacre, Turkey released him and placed him under house arrest in order to expose the fake war on terrorism.
Swedish news site Nordic Monitor has revealed that an ISIS suspect wanted by Interpol has been released in connection with a bloody massacre and placed under house arrest after being detained in Turkey last week, a measure that was almost never applied to the country’s terror suspects.
Turkey announced on June 4 that it had arrested ISIS fugitive Arkan Taha Ahmed, an Iraqi citizen, in Bolu province, the news portal said.
He is accused of involvement in the 2014 Speicher massacre, when ISIS gunmen killed at least 1700 Iraqi Shia and non-Muslim soldiers trying to escape from a former US military base, Camp Speicher, after the group took over the city of Tikrit.
The massacre is the second deadliest terrorist incident in history after the September 11 attacks in the United States of America.
Despite what appears to be a lack of significant effort on Ahmed’s part to conceal himself and resist, Turkish media published stories of a counter-terrorism operation by Bolu police involving dozens of officers, with streets closed that morning.
Bolu police also shared a video clip as a propaganda video with news agencies in an attempt to show how seriously the operation was being handled.
Ahmed was placed under house arrest for two months on the same day by a local court in Bolu. The Nordic Monitor has learned that Ahmed was taken straight to court after being arrested from his home without being questioned by police.
Apparently, the police did not wonder how he lived in Turkey unnoticed for so long, and the court did not even consider deporting him to Iraq because of the INTERPOL red notice.
In fact, Turkish laws allow the police to request the prosecutor to extend the detention period for 14 days.
In a recent case, 14 female university students were detained in Ankara for seven days because of their alleged links to the Gülen movement. Amid reports that the police have threatened to extend the period if they do not acknowledge the charges against them.
Turkey claims to be conducting operations against ISIS to give the impression that it is fighting terrorism.
A Nordic Monitor study indicates that in the past two months prior to the NATO summit in Brussels, Belgium, on June 14, Turkish police detained at least 70 ISIS suspects in 11 cities across the country, a number higher than in previous months.
