Treasure “Trove” Of ISIS Documents Detail Secret Oil Trade With Turkey
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- Treasure “Trove” Of ISIS Documents Detail Secret Oil Trade With Turkey
by Tyler Durden, www.zerohedge.com
… And then, just when it appeared that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was set to plunge NATO into a world war with the Russians and the Iranians, Putin did something no one expected. Instead of sending the long range bombers to Ankara, he addressed reporters while sitting next to Jordan’s King Abdullah and flatly said the following: “ISIS gets money by selling oil to Turkey.”
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Over the next two weeks, The Kremlin launched a relentless PR campaign complete with satellite images and detailed slide decks showing what the Russians claimed was unequivocal evidence of Erdogan’s complicity in the illicit (and highly lucrative) ISIS oil trade.
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Sergei Lavrov and Maria Zakharova heaped on the pressure and before long, the entire international community began to look with skepticism upon Ankara’s contention that Turkey is as an eager and sincere partner in the “war” on ISIS.
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By that time, we had of course documented the Turkey connection exhaustively in the following four-part series:
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* The Most Important Question About ISIS That Nobody Is Asking
* Meet The Man Who Funds ISIS: Bilal Erdogan, The Son Of Turkey’s President
* How Turkey Exports ISIS Oil To The World: The Scientific Evidence
* ISIS Oil Trade Full Frontal: “Raqqa’s Rockefellers”, Bilal Erdogan, KRG Crude, And The Israel Connection
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In the fourth post listed above, we detailed the route by which ISIS transports illegal, undocumented crude to Turkey via Zakho-based smugglers and how that crude ends up at Ceyhan where tanker rates seem to mysteriously spike around ISIS-related oil events. All of this, we suggested, was done with the help of the Turkish government up to and including Erdogan’s son Bilal who owns a shipping company that helps facilitate the transport and sale of oil from the KRG.
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