Crisis of Confidence between Berlin and Ankara Indicates Fragility of US-Led Anti-ISIL Coalition

BERLIN, (ST)- The German “Der Spiegel” newspaper has reported that Berlin would supply Turkey with only limited intelligence information about the positions of ISIL terrorists in Syria, because the German administration has doubts about Erdogan’s government’s real stance towards this terrorist organization.

This lack of confidence indicates how fragile the alleged US-led coalition against ISIL is and uncovers that all the participants in this coalition want to achieve their interests under the pretext of fighting terrorism.

According to the newspaper, Berlin doesn’t trust the Turkish regime and it has no intention to supply it with all the intelligence data it needs due to German fears that Ankara will use these information to serve ISIL not to fight it.

Germany has fears that Turkey will target the Kurds instead of the terrorists of ISIL.

The United States has been leading a propagandistic coalition against ISIL in Syria and Iraq without a mandate from the United Nations. It has carried out thousands of raids without targeting ISIL sites or ISIL smuggling convoys which deliver stolen Syrian oil to Turkey. On the contrary, these airstrikes have contributed to the expansion of the terrorist organization until Russia lunched its counterterrorism operation on September 30 at the request of the Syrian government.

Hamda Mustafa