Kavork Elmassian, a political commentator from Beirut, in an interview with Press TV on Wednesday said, “Turkey will not enter this so-called US-led coalition on terrorism and on ISIL before it guarantees its strategic interests in Syria.”

Elmassian went on to say, “It is clear that Turkey is the most brutal player in the Syrian conflict. Its intervention has reached not only the northern part of Syria, but also in the central part of Syria by allowing the multi-national terrorists to infiltrate into the Syrian territories.”

He added that Turkey also wants “the elimination of the Kurdish presence from its southern borders.”

The remarks come following the Syrian deputy foreign minister’s statement that Turkey is responsible for the acts of terror that the ISIL Takfiri militants commit in Iraq and Syria and that the relationship between Turkey and the ISIL terrorists is no longer hidden.

Mounting evidence has surfaced recently to confirm the long held suspicion that Turkey is continuing to back the terrorist group.

Britain’s Sky News has obtained documents showing that the Turkish government has stamped passports of foreign militants seeking to cross the Turkish border into Syria.

In addition, German television station ARD reported that there are more than 2,000 militants joining ISIL who come from Europe, clarifying that they enter Istanbul as tourists and then cross borders into Iraq and Syria.

The ISIL terrorists control parts of Syria’s northern territory and have seized swaths of land in Iraq straddling the border between the two countries.