ISIS selling oil to Turkey: "vehicles, carrying oil, lined up in a chain going beyond the horizon"

[True Earthling]

Moscow steps up attacks on Turkey as it accuses Ankara of letting ISIS smuggle out oil

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle-east/Moscow-steps-up-attacks-on-Turkey-as-it-accuses-Ankara-of-letting-ISIS-smuggle-out-oil/articleshow/49958408.cms?

Vladimir Putin accused Turkey of allowing ISIS jihadists to run a "living oil pipe" across its border as he upped the ante in the row over the downing of a Russian jet.
The Russian President said that reconnaissance footage, shared with world leaders at the G20 summit earlier this month, showed that oil was being smuggled through rebel-held Syria and into Turkey "day and night". There were "vehicles, carrying oil, lined up in a chain going beyond the horizon", he claimed.
Speaking after talks at the Kremlin with the French President Francois Hollande, Putin accused Ankara of false naivety over ISIS's huge oil operation. "Let's assume that Turkey's political leadership knows nothing about it - it's theoretically possible, albeit hard to believe," he said. "There may be elements of corruption and insider deals. They should deal with it."

[hobbit709]

1. As Commander Vimes says, "Follow the money"

[6chars]

2. Don't implicate Turkey

They are moderate.

[FlatBaroque]

3. Erdogan's son is in charge of operations aimed at financing and arming ISIS.

From ZeroHedge: Meet The Man Who Funds ISIS: Bilal Erdogan, The Son Of Turkey's President

The prime source of money feeding ISIS these days is sale of Iraqi oil from the Mosul region oilfields where they maintain a stronghold. The son of Erdogan it seems is the man who makes the export sales of ISIS-controlled oil possible.

Bilal Erdo?an owns several maritime companies. He has allegedly signed contracts with European operating companies to carry Iraqi stolen oil to different Asian countries. The Turkish government buys Iraqi plundered oil which is being produced from the Iraqi seized oil wells. Bilal Erdogan’s maritime companies own special wharfs in Beirut and Ceyhan ports that are transporting ISIS’ smuggled crude oil in Japan-bound oil tankers.

[eissa]

4. Why we back these double-crossers

is beyond me. Yeah, yeah, NATO Might be time to get them out.

[lovuian]

5. Whose afraid of Sibel Edmunds : Turkey

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/whos-afraid-of-sibel-edmonds/

She was fired from the FBI in April 2002 after she raised concerns that one of the translators in her section was a member of a Turkish organization that was under investigation for bribing senior government officials and members of Congress, drug trafficking, illegal weapons sales, money laundering, and nuclear proliferation. She appealed her termination, but was more alarmed that no effort was being made to address the corruption that she had been monitoring.


Putin is right ....

[Comrade Grumpy]

6. Turkey is a bad actor in all this. n/t

[Shandris]

7. I wonder how ours, and the Mossads, drones missed entire convoys of trucks...

...heading to the border? Seems like the kind of thing that would be real obvious.

[daleo]

8. Sometimes people see what they want to see

And disregard the rest.