ISIL wants to act as Turky's proxy: Analyst
Press TV has interviewed Dr. E. Michael Jones, an Indiana-based editor of Culture Wars Online Magazine, to discuss remarks made by the co-leader of Turkey’s HDP party, slamming Erdogan and the current Turkish administration for supporting ISIL Takfiri terrorists.
What follows is a rough transcription.
Press TV: First of all, I would like to get your opinion on the remarks of the co-leader of the People’s Democratic Party who blames Turkey for its support of ISIL which has resulted in the massacre we are seeing in Kobani today.
Jones: I think what we are seeing here is the battle in the middle of a political campaign in Turkey right now. If you remember, the Erdogan government lost the election at the beginning of the month. It lost the election largely because of news reports that they were supporting ISIL. So now they are in the process of forming another government.
So I suspect it is what happening here, if you combine this with the defeat that ISIL just had in Ramadi. I think what we are seeing here is that ISIL is trying to show that they are essential to the Turkish foreign policy by attacking the Kurds. This is one of the main purposes of the existence of ISIL, to keep the Kurds off-balance, to keep them from establishing their own separate nation and I think that ISIL is trying to earn its support from the Turkish government.
It is trying to keep the Erdogan faction in power by reversing its direction, by withdrawing from Ramadi and attacking Syria at the other end of the country.
Press TV: So then, you would say that when it comes to ISIL, Turkey is ready to allow the people of Syria pay the price for keeping its own Kurdish population under control.
Jones: I think the main pillar of Turkish foreign policy is to prevent the formation of the Kurdish nation. If whatever they can do to do that, they are willing to do including supporting ISIL. It would be a way of, after the failures on the march to Baghdad, this will be a way of regaining the support of the Turkish government by showing that ISIL is useful; a useful proxy, a useful agent in carrying out their foreign policy. That is the way I read it.
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