It’s impossible to beat Daesh with Erdoğan in power

The American Research Institute "Enterprise" ruled out the defeat of the terrorist group Daesh aka ISIS while Turkish President Recep Tayyep Erdogan is in power.

Michael Rubin, who is a resident scholar at the Institute, said in article that Erdogan has transformed Turkey into “Pakistan on the Mediterranean.” Diplomats might, out of politeness, publicly accept the fiction that Erdogan wants to fight violent extremism, but after years of denial, there is broad consensus that Turkey does more to undercut that fight than advance it. 

It’s not just a matter of jihadis from more than 100 countries transiting through Turkey, often unmolested, to join ISIS. Blaming poor border security doesn’t cut it when journalists have photographed Turkey’s intelligence service actively supporting and supplying ISIS, he said.

Rather, it’s the fact that Turkey provides visa waivers, or issues visas on demand, for citizens of countries that contribute to ISIS. Demand that visitors under the age of 40 get visas in advance and the flow of foreign fighters into Syria would slow to a trickle.

The basic problem with Erdoğan, however, is he does not believe radical militancy exists. Even when ISIS fighters took hostage 49 Turkish diplomats and truck drivers in Mosul, Iraq, Erdoğan bent over backward to avoid calling the hostage-takers terrorists, both before and after the diplomats’ release. But it’s not just ISIS. 

Source : MENA