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Names of Turkish MIT agents killed in Kobanê and Iraq

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ANF – KOBANÊ 

turkish-mitThere have been many claims of collaboration between Turkey and ISIS. On 29 November ISIS gangs launched an attack from Turkish territory at the Mürşitpınar border gate.

The AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA) has issued the names of 12 Turkish intelligence (MIT) and special forces operatives who were assumed to be ISIS members and were killed in Mosul and Kobanê.

According to ABNA amongst the Turkish personnel killed in Mosul and Kobanê on the assumption they were ISIS members were former soldiers and MIT operatives.

Names of those killed in Mosul

The ABNA said they had obtained the names of 12 Turkish operatives killed at various times in Kobanê and Mosul, adding: “In an attack during the time of the kidnapping incident in Mosul, an artillery unit of the Iraqi army targeted a MIT ‘safe house’. It was targeted ‘by mistake’ on account of the Turkish operatives being dressed like ISIS militants. It appeared that some of the MIT personnel killed in this house were working at the Turkish consulate (probably in the culture attache section), but never went to the consulate. Their names are as follows:

1- İskender Demir

2- Murat Tin

3- Serdar Karaçam (or Karaçay)

4- Hikmet Y. (found with a Jordanian passport in the name of Muhammed Hammash)

(Bodies taken by Turkey. Name not given of another person reported to have been wounded in this incident).

Killed while trying to infiltrate Kobanê

According to ABNA, 5 special forces operatives were killed as they tried to cross the railway line and infiltrate Kobanê. ABNA said: “From equipment found on these persons it was evident they were Turkish intelligence and special forces operatives, but they were dressed like ISIS militants and had long beards and short moustaches. They had satellite navigation devices and contact information of certain persons working for the MIT in Kobanê. It was understood that these persons were special forces personnel, not ISIS militants, although they were also carrying ID cards given by ISIS to their own fighters.

The names of 4 of the 5 who died are as follows:

1- Mustafa Turan

2- Halil İbrahim T.

3- Hızır K.

4- Murat Çolak (it has been established that this person also used the identity card of certain charities to cross into Iraq and Syria)

(Another corpse, the identity of which could not be ascertained, was taken away by Turkish troops)

3 people killed in Iraq

According to ABNA, 3 people killed in Iraq at various times were found to have had links to the MIT and military intelligence. “Addresses of ‘safe houses’ of Turkish intelligence or the addresses or telephone numbers of persons with direct links to the MIT were found on the bodies of these persons. The corpses were taken by Turkey the next day.”

The names of these persons are as follows:

1- Necmettin Tuna (or Turna)

2- Çağrı Ceyhan (Pilot and lieutenant. Although it was said he had died in a helicopter crash in Kocaeli, in fact he was killed while on a clandestine mission in Iraq of which even his family was not aware)

3-Deniz M.

Turkish imam joins ISIL in Syria, deputy PM confirms

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ANKARA

n_75545_1An imam who worked at a mosque in the Çanakkale province of northwestern Turkey has joined the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), daily Taraf quoted Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç as saying on Dec. 12, adding that the imam has been removed from his post.

“Unfortunately it is true that an imam from Çanakkale’s Bayramiç district joined the ISIL. This person was suspended from his post on June 25,” said Arınç, while responding to questions over the budget of Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet). In Turkey, all imams are appointed to mosques by the Diyanet.

“I don’t know if there are similar examples in other provinces, but it deeply hurt us that an imam could leave the country to join an army of such murderers,” the deputy prime minister also said.

Turkish actress attacked for interpreting for Pope, Serra Yilmaz

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pope-translatorA leading Turkish actress said she has been subjected to a welter of insults on social media since she acting as a translator for Pope Francis during his visit to Turkey in November, AFP reported.

Serra Yilmaz said she was “accused of being a Christian” by Islamist trolls, who were angry at the renowned actress agreeing to interpret for Francis.

“I was accused of being a Christian just because I acted as the translator of Pope Francis,” Yilmaz told university students in the western port city of Izmir, Milliyet newspaper reported Thursday.

“It is ridiculous to judge people by their beliefs.

“But many people made groundless claims like ‘the Vatican hired you,’ or insulted me on social media,” she said.

The 60-year-old stage and screen star, who is fluent in Italian, said she had been hired by Turkish foreign ministry to work as a translator during the pope’s three-day visit to Ankara and Istanbul in late November.

3 Turkish soldiers killed near Syria border

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turkish-soldur-killedTurkish authorities are denying reports that three soldiers guarding the Turkish-Syrian border were killed by gunfire from Syria, The Associated Press reported.

Turkey’s military said Tuesday that one of the soldiers shot and killed two of his colleagues before turning the gun on himself. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told Turkish reporters during a visit to Warsaw that the soldier had a nervous breakdown.

Earlier reports said the soldiers patrolling the border near the town of Ceylanpinar were killed by shots fired from across the border in Syria. The Syrian side of the border is largely controlled by Islamic State militants.

“A terror attack or a cross-border attack is out of the question, according to the indications,” Davutoglu said.

Turkey arrests former MP over death threats against Erdoğan

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185824Former member of Turkish parliament Feyzi İşbaşaran was detained on Monday, Dec 8, in Istanbul over death threats against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

According to Daily Sabah, after his arrival from London, İşbaşaran was detained by police officers, who were informed on the whereabouts of the former MP, setting up a stakeout in front of a hotel he was staying in.

İşbaşaran was arrested for sending death threats via Twitter to Erdoğan and his wife. The former MP said that Erdoğan “definitely deserves death” as he was taken in to custody.

His tweets regarding Erdoğan were evaluated as the offense of “publicly insulting the president.”

İşbaşaran had earlier threatened Armenian intellectual, senior advisor to Turkish Prime Minister and Daily Sabah columnist Etyen Mahçupyan, saying he is an “agent” and must be “taken down.”

“Armenians would want peace when he [Mahçupyan] is killed. He is not Hrant!” İşbaşaran tweeted, giving reference to Hrant Dink, an Armenian journalist whose murder in 2007 led to a public outcry. İşbaşaran also insulted and threatened a disagreeing user on Twitter.

A lawyer attacked İşbaşaran while he was being brought to the court, while another group protested against his threats.

İşbaşaran used to represent the eastern province Elazığ for the ruling AK Party and center-right ANAP.

His bitter dispute with a police officer in 2009, including swears and threats, were taped and sent to media outlets as well as to then-Prime Minister Erdoğan. He resigned from AK Party in 2009 after the party administration sent him to the disciplinary committee for expulsion.

Prior to this incident, İşbaşaran claimed that there were “groups” within the police, conspiring against each other and against the government to start a dispute with the Turkish General Staff.

Photo: Daily Sabah

Turkish Parliament will hide the truth should it block the Genocide resolution

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By Harut Sassounian
Publisher, The California Courier
TheCaliforniaCourier.com

HarutLast week, a Turkish Parliamentarian submitted a proposal to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, seeking condemnation of the Armenian Genocide, a series of atrocities, and other acts of state terrorism.

In this document, Sebahat Tuncel, member of pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), requests that Pres. Erdogan acknowledge and apologize in Parliament for the Armenian Genocide, massacres of Dersim, Marash, Sivas, and Chorum, mass hangings after the Sept. 12, 1980 military coup, and other Crimes Against Humanity resulting from state terror.

The proposed resolution also demands that the Turkish President visit one of the sites of the mass killings, repeat his apology in public, and declare April 24 to be an official Day of Mourning. Within a year, the Parliament is to form a Truth Commission and make public all documents in state archives regarding these crimes. Moreover, moral and material restitution should be provided to descendants of the victims.

It is expected that the Turkish Parliament would reject consideration of this proposal. Most probably, Tuncel’s real intent is to raise the issue of the Armenian Genocide and other mass killings in Parliament, regardless of the outcome. The mere submission of such a resolution would create a national uproar inside the Parliament, the media, and Turkish denialist circles. Tuncel must be aware that she is running the risk of having her parliamentary immunity lifted and being prosecuted for bringing up banned subjects under Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code.

While welcoming Tuncel’s daring and bold proposal, Armenians, Turks, Kurds, and others should not forget that this would not be the first time the Turkish government has taken up the deportation and massacre of Armenians. On November 4, 1918, immediately after the collapse of the Young Turk regime and before the founding of the Republic of Turkey by Kemal Ataturk in 1923, the Ottoman Parliament considered a motion on the crimes committed by the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP): “A population of one million people guilty of nothing except belonging to the Armenian nation were massacred and exterminated, including even women and children.” The then Minister of Interior Fethi Bey responded by telling the Parliament: “It is the intention of the government to cure every single injustice done up until now, as far as the means allow, to make possible the return to their homes of those sent into exile, and to compensate for their material loss as far as possible.”

A Parliamentary Investigative Committee proceeded to collect relevant documents describing actions of those responsible for the Armenian mass killings and turned them over to the Turkish Military Tribunal. CUP’s leading figures were found guilty of massacring Armenians and hanged or given lengthy prison sentences. The Military Tribunal requested that Germany extradite to Turkey the masterminds of the massacres who had fled the country. After German refusal, they were tried in absentia and sentenced to death.

To reinforce her proposal with historical and legal precedents, Tuncel may want to submit to the Turkish Parliament a copy of the 1918 parliamentary motion and discussion on the Armenian Genocide, which was referred to at the time as “Armenian deportations and massacres.” She should also submit a copy of the guilty verdicts issued by Turkish Military Tribunals. Finally, Tuncel should remind the Parliament of the historic admission Kemal Ataturk made in an interview published in the Los Angeles Examiner on August 1, 1926: “These leftovers from the former Young Turk Party who should have been made to account for the lives of millions of our Christian subjects who were ruthlessly driven en masse from their homes and massacred.” Would any Turkish Parliamentarian dare to call the Father of Modern Turkey a liar?

Should the Turkish Parliament block Tuncel’s resolution and prevent its consideration, it would expose the Erdogan government’s fear of facing the truth and concealing the guilt of its predecessors! Regardless of the end result, this proposal is an unexpected positive development on the eve of the Armenian Genocide Centennial and provides some consolation to descendants of the victims of more recent Turkish atrocities.

The introduction of Tuncel’s proposal to the Turkish Parliament coincided with the unanimous recognition of the Armenian Genocide by Bolivia’s Senate and Parliament. Significantly, this acknowledgment was achieved on its own merits, without any Armenian lobbying efforts, which negates the standard Turkish claim that countries recognizing the Armenian Genocide do so under pressure from local Armenian communities. Hardly any Armenians live in Bolivia!

Turkish police clash with Kobane protesters near Syria border

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n_75120_1Turkish police have clashed with protesters demonstrating in support of the Kurdish town of Kobane near Syria’s border with Turkey.

The Democratic Regions Party (DBP), which shares similar grassroots with the outlawedKurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), organized the demonstration in the Silopi district of the southeastern province of Şırnak on Dec. 2. The group peacefully marched to protest the ongoing attacks of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Kobane.

The clashes started after the march, after some protesters threw Molotov cocktails and the police used tear gas, Doğan News Agency reported. An armored police vehicle was set alight in the clashes, but police were able to extinguish the fire with water cannon.

 

Two Turkish terrorists released into U.S. by Homeland Security Department

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By Stephen Dinan – The Washington Times – Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson acknowledged Tuesday that his department had to release two men who admitted they were part of a terrorist group from Turkey, after a judge ordered them to be let out — a decision he said he disagreed with.

Earlier this year, Mr. Johnson had told Congress that four men who were caught crossing the southern border and who claimed to be part of a Marxist terrorist group would be deported. But Tuesday he told the Homeland Security Committee that two of them remain in U.S. custody, and two others were released into the U.S. and then fled to Canada, where they are seeking asylum.

“You tell the world that you’re going to deport these four people tied to terrorists — these are terrorists — and they don’t. They get released,” said Rep. Jason Chaffetz, Utah Republican.

Mr. Johnson said he would have preferred the two men be kept in custody but didn’t have a choice after the judge ruled.

“I’m not sure of their exact whereabouts,” Mr. Johnson said.
The Washington Times reported earlier this year on the apparent existence of a smuggling network that shepherded the four men from Istanbul through Paris to Mexico City, where they were stashed for several days before being driven to the U.S. border. They crossed illegally in early September.

Fighting continues in Kobane, Turkish bombardment wounds many Kurds civilians and fighters

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By RUDAW

kobani-turk-attackKOBANE BORDER—Turkish bombardment of Kobane on Saturday has wounded a number of civilians and fighters inside the Kurdish city, the city administrator said.

“Under the pretense of stopping an ISIS attack on Turkey the Turkish army bombarded the center of Kobane with tanks and artillery,” Anwar Muslim, co-chair of the Kobane canton told Rudaw. “A number of civilians and fighters have been wounded.”

Muslim said that heavy fighting is going on between the Islamic State (ISIS) militants and the Peoples Protection Units (YPG) and the Peshmerga forces in several parts of the city.

“The YPG and Peshmerga have countered all the attacks, the fighting is still going on and we have a number of wounded,” said Muslim.

He added that the Kurdish forces still control most of the city, but “the ISIS has mined the few parts of the city that are under their control,”

Muslim said that the Turkish authorities had turned off electricity at the refugee camp on the border and imposed a total blackout during their bombardment of the city.

Earlier in the day Reuters reported that four ISIS militants had led the attack on Kobane by blowing themselves up at the crossing point between Turkey and the Kurdish city.

According to the report, 30 people were killed in the beginning of renewed clashes between the Kurdish forces and the Islamist fighters.

Kurdish leaders accused Turkey of facilitating the attack on the city, but the office of Turkish Prime Minister dismissed the accusation, saying the vehicles used in the car bombings hadn’t crossed from Turkey.

Turkey opposition CHP leader likens Turkish military intelligence (MİT) to Nazi Germany’s Gestapo

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197699_newsdetailHaving previously accused the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) of carrying out an operation to create dissent within the Republican People’s Party (CHP), CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu recently likened MİT to the Gestapo, Nazi Germany’s secret police, for its alleged plot against the CHP.

Speaking in the province of Erzurum on Saturday at his party’s regional meeting, Kılıçdaroğlu was asked about his previous statements accusing MİT of trying to divide the CHP on the basis of ideological differences. The party leader responded by saying MİT is serving the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) instead of the state.

“Those political parties come to power to govern the state, not to undermine it. But the AK Party has now turned into a state party. The state’s institutions, whose main tasks are to serve the state, do not follow the guidelines of the law. They serve the AK Party,” Kılıçdaroğlu said. Report Today Zaman