True on both counts.
“Turkey reveals it’s a transit country for jihadist fighters, accusing the EU of serving as a source of terrorists,” by Levent Kenez, Nordic Monitor, August 5, 2022:
In a rare statement, Turkey’s Directorate General of Migration Management on Tuesday released statistics on “foreign terrorist fighters” deported from Turkey. It did not disclose how many of these fighters were members of which organization, but almost all of them are believed to be jihadist fighters who went to Syria to fight.
Wording specifically targeting the US and EU were included in the statement issued by the directorate general, part of the Ministry of Interior.
According to the statement, a total of 9,000 foreign terrorist fighters from 102 countries, of which 1,168 were from the US and EU countries, have been deported since 2011, as a result of “the work carried out for Turkey’s security within and across the border.” The fact that the number of deported fighters is exactly 9,000 raises doubts about the accuracy of the statistics.
The directorate general explained that these people are foreign terrorist fighters who came from their home countries to join terrorist organizations such as the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS or DAESH).
The statement emphasized that the largest group among the deportees comprised citizens of EU countries. According to the directorate general, a total of 1,109 foreign terrorist fighters from EU member states and 59 from the United States have been deported since 2011….
Infidel says
While Turkey may be right about the EU being the source of jihadis, the bulk of them are backed by Turkey – be it the Free Syrian Army or other Turkish backed Muslim Brotherhood affiliated militias. There is also the fact that Turkey had been knowingly allowing Gaziantep to be a transit point to join ISIS: they couldn’t have gone from Iraq, then under a relatively friendly Iraqi regime, or Syria, run by Baathists who are their mortal enemies
Outside its neighborhood, Turkey had been providing FSA fighters to the regimes in Tripoli and Baku to fight their secular and Christian enemies. They are also involved in funding India’s PFI, which is behind the current jihad in India and has put out a document for domination of India by 2047 – India’s centennial as a republic. So bad as the EU is, Turkey is a much greater source for jihadis
Devasur says
Ironically coming from the biggest source of Jihadis. Why is Turkey still a member of NATO?
Infidel says
B’cos NATO still views Russia, rather than Turkey, as the enemy. Recall how it was NATO that bombed Serbia in the 90s to pry out Bosnia and Kosovo from their grasp
gravenimage says
Infidel, Erdogan is also allying with Russia.
gravenimage says
Good question, Devasur. They should have been out long since.
Falsafa says
amusing conspiracy theories reverberating amongst the motley crew of anti muslim anti Turkish jihad watchers! don’t you lot get tired of spewing this bigotry!?