This week, the Turkish military attempted to stage a coup against democratically elected leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Many suspected that the coup was driven in part by the sense that Erdogan was sympathetic to Islamists. It appears that this is quite the understatement.
In a recent story that flew under the radar, it was revealed that Bilal Erdogan, the son of the Turkish leader, was engaged in a scheme to purchase oil from ISIS. As the November 2015 report states:
The prime source of money feeding ISIS these days is sale of Iraqi oil from the Mosul region oilfields where they maintain a stronghold. The son of Erdogan it seems is the man who makes the export sales of ISIS-controlled oil possible.
Bilal Erdogan owns several maritime companies. He has allegedly signed contracts with European operating companies to carry Iraqi stolen oil to different Asian countries. The Turkish government buys Iraqi plundered oil which is being produced from the Iraqi seized oil wells. Bilal Erdogan’s maritime companies own special wharfs in Beirut and Ceyhan ports that are transporting ISIS’ smuggled crude oil in Japan-bound oil tankers.
In short: the son of a democratically elected leader of a NATO member country is engaged in a scheme to finance ISIS.
AAN Staff
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