[Peace-discuss] Western terrorists are coming home to roost

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Western terrorists are coming home to roost

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Steven Sahiounie, political commentator

Turkey is deporting terrorists to their country of origin. President
<https://www.dailysabah.com/war-on-terror/2019/11/12/erdogan-heads-to-washin
gton-to-meet-trump> Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Tuesday, "Some countries have
started panicking after we began the repatriation process of foreign Daesh
terrorists. Turkey has been worrying about this issue for years, let others
worry now," He added, "The American Daesh terrorists stranded in the buffer
zone on Greece border is none of Turkey's concern, deportations will
continue regardless." 

The Turkish Interior Minister,
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/11/turkey-begins-deporting-forei
gn-members-of-isis-islamic-state> Süleyman Soylu, said last week that Ankara
would start sending ISIS terrorists back to their country of origin even if
they had been stripped of their citizenship, adding that Turkey was not a
'hotel' for foreign jihadists.  "There is no need to try to escape from it;
we will send them back to you. Deal with them how you want," said
<http://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20191111-french-jihadists-citizenship-turkey-de
portation-syria-erdogan-islamic-state> Soylu.

Turkey has criticized Western countries for refusing to take back their
citizens who were members of ISIS, also known as Daesh, and stripping them
of their citizenship, although the 1961 New York Convention made it
<https://www.dailysabah.com/war-on-terror/2019/11/12/erdogan-heads-to-washin
gton-to-meet-trump> illegal to leave people stateless. Since 2010, the UK
has stripped more than 100 people of
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/11/turkey-begins-deporting-forei
gn-members-of-isis-islamic-state> British citizenship. One of the first
deported terrorists was an
<https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/11/world/middleeast/turkey-isis-fighters.ht
ml> American, unnamed, who was deported to the USA via Greece.  However, he
refused to go
<http://www.ekathimerini.com/246368/article/ekathimerini/news/feared-jihadis
t-stuck-in-evros> into Greece, and returned to Turkey, upon which the Turks
refused him re-entry and pushed him back to Greece.  Finally, when he asked
to enter Greece, they refused which has left him in 'limbo' in a buffer
space between Turkey and Greece.  The US State Department acknowledges they
are aware of the situation but offer no further details about the man who
has been photographed and was shown on
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/11/turkey-begins-deporting-forei
gn-members-of-isis-islamic-state> Turkish TV.

Plans to
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/11/turkey-begins-deporting-forei
gn-members-of-isis-islamic-state> deport eleven
<http://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20191111-french-jihadists-citizenship-turkey-de
portation-syria-erdogan-islamic-state> French citizens and seven Germans,
along with three from Denmark and two from Ireland, were forming, according
to Turkish Interior Ministry spokesman
<https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/11/world/middleeast/turkey-isis-fighters.ht
ml> Ismail Catakli. A spokesman for the German Foreign Ministry,
<https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/11/world/middleeast/turkey-isis-fighters.ht
ml> Christofer Burger, announced in Berlin that ten people were to be
deported to Germany suspected of ISIS involvement, including women and
children.  The Germans were due to be flown home on
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/11/turkey-begins-deporting-forei
gn-members-of-isis-islamic-state> November 14th.

 
<https://www.yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-to-deport-7-syrian-daesh-al-qaeda-
terror-suspects-3504971> Turkey has deported 7,500 ISIS members, with
another 1,149 ISIS terrorists in
<https://www.aa.com.tr/en/turkey/turkey-to-deport-7-more-daesh-terrorists/16
42574> Turkish prisons. Turkish state media reported Turkey planned to
repatriate about
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/11/turkey-begins-deporting-forei
gn-members-of-isis-islamic-state> 2,500 militants, most going home to
European Union nations. 

Erdogan will meet with Trump today at the White House.  Erdogan will present
documentation that
<https://www.dailysabah.com/war-on-terror/2019/11/12/erdogan-heads-to-washin
gton-to-meet-trump> Ferhat Abdi Sahin, who is known to the US military as
'General' Mazloum Kobani, is a PKK terrorist.  Recently, Trump spoke with
Mazloum, who is the military leader of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF),
and spoke highly of Mazloum and had invited him to the White House.  Trump
ordered the withdrawal of US troops from northeastern Turkey, which paved
the road for Erdogan to order an invasion on October 9th, to remove the SDF.
The US military partnered with the SDF in the fight to defeat ISIS in Syria.
However, the fight was over and Trump had promised his citizens to 'bring
the troops home'.  Many felt this was a betrayal of the SDF, who had fought
and died in the fight to stop ISIS, alongside US troops.  However, Erdogan
views the SDF, and Mazloum, as part of the internationally
<https://www.dailysabah.com/war-on-terror/2019/11/12/erdogan-heads-to-washin
gton-to-meet-trump> recognized terrorist group, PKK, who has waged a terror
campaign against Turkey for more than 30 years, resulting in the deaths of
nearly 40,000 people, including women, children, and infants.

Not every terrorist is being deported from Turkey, only the ones they don't
want.  The mercenary militia Free Syrian Army (FSA) is on the Turkish
government payroll and fighting inside Syria today on behalf of Erdogan.

The ground troops used in 'Operation Spring Peace' are Syrian terrorists who
are now mercenary soldiers employed by Turkey.  We first heard of the
<https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dark-side-free-syrian_b_2380399> FSA in 2011
when  <https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dark-side-free-syrian_b_2380399> Obama
and Sen. John McCain called them 'freedom fighters' and funded them through
covert CIA programs, as well as through Congressional funding, lobbied by
McCain and others.  McCain made a personal trip to meet with the FSA near
Idlib and the photos his office posted online were controversial. The FSA
ended up a failure in Syria, while their 'brother's in arms', Al Qaeda,
arrived and were successful, with the FSA either switching uniforms to Al
Qaeda or their 'brother' ISIS.
<https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dark-side-free-syrian_b_2380399> Erdogan
continued to support them as the remnants of the FSA re-grouped in Turkey,
and he rebranded them as the "Syrian National Army"; however, the new name
never stuck and they are still called FSA. 

Since the FSA have invaded northeast Syria, about 200,000 people have been
displaced, according to the UN. Families are scattered across the area, and
it is the FSA who are blamed for beatings, rapes, looting, kidnappings, and
<https://www.newsday.com/opinion/commentary/donald-trump-recep-tayyip-erdoga
n-turkey-war-crimes-1.38490788>  executions.

The FSA invokes the name of God in every action they take.  If they kill
innocent <https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dark-side-free-syrian_b_2380399>
civilians or armed SDF soldiers, they do so by invoking the name of God.
Their shouts of "
<https://www.newsday.com/opinion/commentary/donald-trump-recep-tayyip-erdoga
n-turkey-war-crimes-1.38490788> Allahu Akbar" are remembered from their
first appearance in 2011 in Homs, when the carried banners which read,
"Christians to Beirut, Alowis to the grave."  They were followers of the
<https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dark-side-free-syrian_b_2380399> Muslim
Brotherhood ideology which gave them the Islamic authority to slaughter in
the name of God and to judge who is a 'heathen' or not.

"Those people are filled with hatred and a lust for blood," said
<https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/turkey-syria-national-
army-kurds-safe-zone-human-rights-abuse-looting-kidnap-executions-a9198311.h
tml> Fateh, a barber from Ras al-Ayn.  "They do not distinguish between Arab
and Kurdish, Muslim and non-Muslim. They contacted me before the offensive
and said that as an Arab Muslim, it is my duty to rise up against the Kurds
and help Turkey invade my city."  He refused and left the area.

"Someone called me and simply said 'we want your head' as if stealing my
home and driving me out of my city merely for being Kurdish was not enough."
said
<https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/turkey-syria-national-
army-kurds-safe-zone-human-rights-abuse-looting-kidnap-executions-a9198311.h
tml> Mohammad Aref, a radiologist from Tal Abyad.  He said he was reminded
of how ISIS acted when they invaded his town in 2013.  The FSA terrorists
"destroyed a lion stonework at the entrance of our building, thinking it was
idolatry", he said. "They took our carpets and threw them on the street to
prostrate themselves on them during public prayers that they were holding."

"Let's be clear, Tal Abyad is not under the control of Turkey. It's under
the control of Turkey's mercenaries.  They have taken over the houses of us
Kurds and made them their own.  Each one of those mercenaries acts as if he
was in charge of the town.  They walk into houses and proclaim them theirs.
They kidnap and execute people for being 'atheists' or 'blasphemers'. And
they are looting people's properties in broad daylight." said
<https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/turkey-syria-national-
army-kurds-safe-zone-human-rights-abuse-looting-kidnap-executions-a9198311.h
tml>  Mikael Mohammad, the Kurdish owner of a clothing shop in Tal Abyad. 

The FSA terrorists "believe that taking your life is doing God's work and
that stealing your property is their reward for it," said a Kurdish
<https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/turkey-syria-national-
army-kurds-safe-zone-human-rights-abuse-looting-kidnap-executions-a9198311.h
tml> aid worker from Ras al-Ayn, now displaced in Qamishli.  

Graphic videos uploaded by the FSA showed them executing captives along a
highway near Tal Abyad.  On October 12th the Syrian Kurdish politician,
<https://www.newsday.com/opinion/commentary/donald-trump-recep-tayyip-erdoga
n-turkey-war-crimes-1.38490788> Hevrin Khalaf, was tortured, murdered and
dismembered after the FSA ambushed her car.  The videos of her body and the
mutilations of the corpse went viral online.  Her mother said after
receiving the body for burial, the only thing she could recognize was a
portion of her chin.

Speaking to journalists recently, Erdogan defended his Syrian allies, saying
they were not "terrorists" but
<https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/turkey-syria-national-
army-kurds-safe-zone-human-rights-abuse-looting-kidnap-executions-a9198311.h
tml> Islamic holy warriors who were "defending their land there, hand in
hand, arm in arm, shoulder to shoulder with my soldiers".

In 2012,  <https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dark-side-free-syrian_b_2380399>
Daniel Wagner, the author of "Virtual Terror", wrote about the FSA, at a
time when the Obama administration and the US media were supporting the FSA
regardless of the war crimes and atrocities they were committing. He wrote,
"The West should not be surprised if an Islamic state results from an FSA
victory."  That was written seven years ago, while Turkey today, a US ally
and NATO member, is using the same terrorists to murder in northeast Syria,
and there is no international outcry, as they had all supported them before.
Interestingly, the only international outcry is that their terrorists are
coming home to roost. 

 

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