Under normal circumstances the prisoners should have been deported but were not.
Nokta also alleges that the prisoners were handed over to MİT with the full knowledge of Şanlıurfa Police Chief Eyüp Pınarbaşı. Additionally, on the day and hour of the delivery to the ISIL handlers, security cameras were turned off and border personnel were ushered away.
In June Turkish daily Cumhuriyet claimed that MİT was assisting ISIL by allowing fighters and arms safe passage into Syria through Turkey. Footage acquired by Cumhuriyet featured bus drivers saying that, upon the orders of MİT, they had transferred “heavily bearded scruffy people” to the border.
Ankara dismissed the claims at the time saying that such allegations were simply “a smear campaign” against the government.
Filed under: war, war crimes Tagged: al qaeda, Al-Nusra, free syrian army, friends of syria, ISIL, ISIS, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, syria, Turkey
