Blind eye on ISIS criminal oil trade

From the very beginning of the crisis in Syria, many calls have been delivered to suspend financial and military support offered to the armed terrorist groups operating in Syria and Iraq. However, some western, regional and Arab states, which claim to combat terrorism, are the main supporters of terrorist groups financially and militarily. The US and its Western allies have been turning a blind eye to ISIS criminal oil trade with Turkey allowing the terrorist organization to get huge funds to finance its terrorist operations against people in Syria and Iraq.

Turkey’s leadership, including President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his family, is involved in illegal oil trade with ISIS. Oil sales is one of the main sources of funding for terrorists in Syria. Terrorists get around USD 2 billion yearly which they use in recruiting terrorists and arming them. Awhole team of bandits and Turkish elites stealing oil from their neighbors is operating in the region. This oil enters the territory of Turkey in large quantities via live oil pipelines consisting of thousands of oil trucks.

Turkey’s leadership, including President Erdogan and his family, is involved in illegal oil trade with ISIS. Turkey is the final destination for oil smuggled from Syria and Iraq. Turkey is the main buyer of smuggled oil coming from Iraq and Syria.

The so-called US-led coalition allegedly fighting Daesh terrorists in Syria and Iraq has been aware of the terror group’s oil sales.

Russian warplanes started bombing that criminal industry when they began operation in that area. Turkish authorities grew more and more nervous after the bombardment of Daesh oil tankers by Russian fighter jets.

Moscow has submitted a proposal to the United Nations Security Council, asking the body to prepare a report on Daesh oil sales and its buyers. The Russian-drafted Resolution 2199 adopted by the Security Council last year  bans any oil trade with terrorist groups in Iraq and Syria .

The Turkish government is collaborating with Daesh and buying oil from the terrorist group. Turkey continues to ensure export and transportation of oil stolen by Daesh from Syria and Iraq. This oil subsequently goes to ports in other countries. The same situation is with wheat and cotton.Daesh terrorists also dismantle the machineries of factories in Aleppo city and transfer them to Turkey to be reassembled. In exchange, (Daesh) terrorists receive weapons and are granted safe passage through Turkey.

Daesh finances its acts of terror mainly through the sale of oil and antiquities, drug trafficking, and ransom from abductions.

Financing terrorism in the world comes from Qatar and Saudi Arabia, and the Western intelligence. The terrorism which targeted Syria from the beginning of the crisis was coming through the Turkish borders where thousands of arms-loaded trucks and so-called “Jihadists” were sent to terrorist organizations in Syria at a time the United States still divides terrorists to good and bad, meaning that it rounds in a vicious circle and supports the same terrorist organizations responsible for September 11th attacks in US.Qatar had the main role in transforming arms from Libya to Turkey then to Syria to ignite the flames of war in it.

Since the start of Russia’s anti-terrorist operation in Syria on September 30, the income of ISIS from illegal oil smuggling has been significantly reduced. The financial revenues of these acts are used for enriching the Turkish government and sending mercenaries, weapons, and equipment to terrorists in Syria.

Just over the past week, up to 2,000 terrorists, over 120 tons of ammunition, and around 250 various vehicles were transported from Turkey to ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra.According to reliable  information, such activities have been carried out for a long time and on a regular basis.

Three main oil routes had been identified: The western route to Turkish ports in the Mediterranean, the northern to Patma oil refinery and the eastern to Cazri transfer point. According to the most modest estimates, the terrorists’ revenues from illegal oil business stood at no less than $3 million per day. After the Russian airstrikes, the revenues went down to $1.5 million per day.

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