Attacks Hitting Turkey Result of Erdogan’s Wrong Syria Policy: Turkish Writer

PARIS, (ST) – Turkish writer Kadri Gursel believes that the terrorist attacks targeting Turkey are the result of Recepe Tayyib Erdogan’s wrong policy towards Syria.

Interviewed by the French Magazine Le Figaro, Gursel said “Since the beginning of the crisis in Syria Erdogan has opened the door widely for the terrorists to cross Turkish border into Syria. He established a special route to allow terrorists to enter and leave Syria without restrictions and used the Turkish territories as a base to create a strategic depth that later allowed the terrorists in Iraq and Syria to integrate; an integration that caused the emergence of ISIL terrorist organization in the two countries.”

“Without this strategic depth ISIL could neither capture Iraq’s Mosul in June, 2014 nor be able to bring terrorists from Arab Maghreb and Europe to join its ranks,” the writer said, clarifying that Erdogan has offered those terrorist full freedom to enter Syria across the Turkish borders and has deliberately ignored information that terrorist networks were being established in Turkey.

These terrorist networks will target the country at the end, according to the writer.

Gursel believed that Syrian immigrant crisis was the result of Erdogan’s wrong policy which aimed at blackmailing Europe. He pointed out that giving Erdogan the money he requested won’t stop immigration waves to European countries.

He reiterated that Erdogan’s policy on Syria has terribly failed, but the worse may be coming if he carried on his wrong policies.

Hamda Mustafa