ISIS “Ally” Turkey Seeks NATO Support As Two-Front “War” Escalates

• ISIS “Ally” Turkey Seeks NATO Support As Two-Front “War” Escalates
  by Tyler Durden, www.zerohedge.com  
  NATO representatives met in Brussels on Tuesday after Turkey made a rare Article 4 request which compels treaty parties to convene in the event a member state is of the opinion that its “territorial integrity, political independence or security” is being threatened. 
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  That’s the case in Turkey, where the security situation has rapidly deteriorated over the past two weeks following a suicide bombing in Suruc (claimed by Islamic State) and the murder of two Turkish policemen in the town of Ceylanpinar (at the hands of the PKK, which claims the officers were cooperating with ISIS). Ankara responded by launching airstrikes against both Islamic State and PKK. 
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  In many ways, the suicide bombing and retaliatory action by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party – which both Ankara and the West have designated as a terrorist group – is representative of the complex web of alliances that makes understanding the conflict in Syria so difficult. As The Economist notes, the PKK “have been fighting an on-and-off guerrilla war against the Turkish government for decades,” but the group’s Syrian Kurdish militia arm (YPG) has helped the US coordinate airstrikes against ISIS targets near the border town of Kobani. 
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  Complicating the issue further are long standing accusations that Turkey actively cooperates with ISIS. “ISIS commanders told us to fear nothing at all because there was full cooperation with the Turks,” one former ISIS commander said late last year, in aninterview with Newsweek, which also noted that “Turkey had blocked Kurdish fighters from crossing the border into Syria to aid their Syrian counterparts in defending the border town of Kobani.” 
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  More recently, The Guardian reported that information obtained when a raid by US commandos killed ISIS’ purported “oil minister” in May provided “undeniable” evidence of “direct dealings between Turkish officials and ranking Isis members.” And let’s not forget that US Vice President Joe Biden admitted last year that Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar and Turkey had funneled hundreds of millions of dollars to Islamist rebels in Syria that metamorphosed into ISIS.
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