Foreign Policy Magazine: Erdogan’s Support for Extremists Puts His Own Country’s Security at Risk

WASHINGTON, (ST)-The US “Foreign Policy” Magazine has blamed President of Turkish regime Recepe Tayyib Erdogan for the terrorist blasts which recently hit the Ataturk Airport of Istanbul and claimed the lives of at least 42 people.

Recepe Tayyib Erdogan’s strategy of supporting extremist groups, interfering in other countries affairs and playing enemies off one another has put his own country’s security at risk, a risk that appeared clearly in the recent terrorist attacks which targeted Turkish cities and the latest of which was the blasts that rocked Ataturk Airport in Istanbul, according to the magazine.

 In an article by writer Leela Jacinto published recently, the magazine said “Erdogan’s policy of supporting extremists to muck around neighboring countries isn’t going exactly to script. Those extremists are turning around like snakes to bite the hand that once fed them.”

Terrorist attacks are now the new normal in Turkey, because of Erdogan’s insistence to carry on his irresponsible policies, according to Jacinto.

Istanbul’s attacks were a “declaration of the end of a tacit understanding that SIS would not target Turkey as repayment for Erdogan’s generous open-border policy during the first four years of the crisis in Syria,” said the writer.

 Jacinto went on to say that Erdogan’s support for extremist terrorist groups in Syrian is an old story, but “woe to any Turkish journalist who dares write about this”.

“ A day before the Istanbul airport attack, I interviewed leading Turkish journalist Can Dundar, who survived a high-profile assassination attempt and is currently appealing a five-year prison sentence for publishing a report in his newspaper, Cumhuriyet, on Turkish intelligence services supplying arms to terrorists in Syria. “This is a touchy subject, and therefore the reaction was so strong,” Dundar explained.

Erdogan’s regime has intended to provide protection, shelter and support for the terrorist organizations, including “ISIS”. It allowed them to use the Turkish territories in order to send arms to the terrorists in Syria. In addition, it provided medical care and treatment to wounded terrorists at Turkish hospitals near the Borders with Syria.

Hamda Mustafa