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Energy minister’s leaked email Expose Turkey’s tacit support for ISIL

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email-turkey-isilA leaked email belonging to Berat Albayrak, Turkey’s energy minister and son-in-law of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, shows weapons supply routes to the terrorist Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) through the Turkish border, in a tacit acknowledgement of Turkish support for the extremist group.

Albayrak’s email account was hacked by RedHack, a Turkish Marxist-Leninist-Maoist computer hacker group on Friday, and the group threatened to disclose 20 GB of secret information if the Turkish government failed to release Alp Altınörs, deputy co-chairperson of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), and prize-winning novelist and journalist Aslı Erdoğan by Monday.

The email was shared among a number of persons, including Cüneyt Arvasi, Halil Danışmaz, executive director of the Turkish Heritage Organization, a pro-Justice and Development party (AKP) institute in the US, Energy Minister Albayrak and his brother Serhat Albayrak.

The email provides information to the energy minister and says that ISIL will launch full-scale attacks in northern Syria against Kurdish militias that Turkey views as the enemy, after the August 2014 presidential elections in Turkey.

Maps of arms supply routes and jihadist crossings through the Turkish border to Syria are also attached to the email, the content of the email shows.

In a striking comment, the email says the war between the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) had turned into another fight in Syria between ISIL and Kurdish militia the People’s Protection Units (YPG). The YPG is the Syrian extension of the PKK, which is listed as a terrorist organization by the US, the EU and Turkey.

In 2014, there was no actual fighting between the TSK and the PKK as a truce declared in 2013 was still in place despite some problems. The fragile two-year cease-fire collapsed last summer.

Albayrak: We’ve lost the Kurds

Just weeks before the Nov. 1 parliamentary elections last year, the energy minister said in an email sent to an advisor of President Erdoğan that the government has mostly lost the Kurds due to an escalation in the fighting in Turkey’s Southeast.

The PKK’s decision to bring the war to cities and towns triggered an intensification of fighting between security forces and the terrorist group, reducing cities to rubble.

The government’s heavy-handed response also worsened the conditions of civilians trapped in the urban fight.

Albayrak shared with the advisor a draft of field research conducted by the pro-government SETA think tank titled “Kurdish People and Turkey”.

“This is a draft version of field research about Kurds’ tendencies. Not the final version. We seem to have lost the Kurds. This is done. May Allah help our final situation,” Albayrak wrote.

Another field survey measuring voter behavior across the region shows that prior to the Nov. 1 elections, the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) had won 67.7 percent of the vote, while the AKP garnered 23.1 percent. The figure fueled government fears, but the election results saw the ruling AKP recoup some of the losses it sustained in the June 7 elections.

Source: http://www.turkishminute.com/2016/09/27/energy-ministers-leaked-email-reveals-turkeys-tacit-support-isil/

Obama implicated in Clinton email scandal – New FBI docs

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obama-implicatedPresident Barack Obama used a pseudonym when communicating with then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by email, while her IT company referred to her email deleting as a “cover-up”, new FBI documents reveal.

The heavily-redacted documents, almost 200 pages, include summaries of interviews with senior Clinton aides concerning the private email server, and brings to light details previously unknown.

During the interview with Huma Abedin, who served as deputy chief of staff under Clinton, the FBI reportedly presented her with an email exchange between Clinton and a person she did not recognize. The FBI then revealed the unknown person’s name was believed to be a pseudonym used by Obama. Abedin reacted by saying, “How is this not classified?”

This exchange could expose Obama as having mislead the public on the issue, given his 2015 statement that he found out about Clinton’s use of a private email server “the same time everybody else learned it, through news reports.”

The State Department will not make public the emails Clinton exchanged with Obama, citing “presidential communications privilege,” as reason to withhold the emails under the Freedom of Information Act, Politico reports.

The documents also include interview notes with other senior Clinton aides; Cheryl Mills, Jake Sullivan and former Bill Clinton advisor Justin Cooper, who registered the clintonemail.com domain. Romanian hacker Guccifer and a number of state department officials were also interviewed.

The latest FBI document cache also refers to the engineer who used BleachBit to permanently delete emails from Clinton’s server soon after the House Benghazi Committee issued a subpoena for documents relating to the 2012 attack on the US embassy in Libya. According to the engineer, he did this “of his own accord based on his normal practices as an engineer.”

Documents show employees from Platte River Networks, the IT company who managed Clinton’s emails, referring to a request to wipe emails in 2014 as the “Hilary [sic] cover-up operation”. An employee told the FBI this was a joke.

Clinton aide, Bryan Pagliano, said concerns were raised about whether Clinton’s server created a “federal records retention issue” by state department officials in 2009 or 2010. When he communicated these concerns to Mills, however, she said that Clinton’s  predecessor, Colin Powell, had also used private email.

The reports further reveal Clinton’s alleged ineptitude with technology, with aides claiming she “could not use a computer,” and didn’t know her email password.

Abedin said she had two computers in her State Department office, one for unclassified communications and another for classified communications. She did most of her work on the unclassified computer and would go “days or weeks without logging into the classified system.”

One redacted interviewee described himself as a “Clintonista” and said he has a relationship with the Clintons dating back years. He said he would meet with Clinton four or five times a day and initially traveled with her until she was comfortable with the position of secretary of state.