/ world today news/ According to Turkish and Syrian media, quoted by RIA Novosti, the son of the Turkish leader Recep Erdogan – Bilal Erdogan – actually controlled the oil flows in Turkey and bought crude oil from the Islamists on the black market.
According to media reports, Erdogan Jr. owns piers in the ports of Beirut in Lebanon and Ceyhan in Turkey, where contraband raw materials are delivered by tankers.
After Russian airstrikes caused significant damage to the Islamic State terrorist group’s “oil pipelines on wheels” and oil storage facilities, the Turkish president’s son’s income has plummeted. In addition, other members of the Erdogan family are also involved in the family business. For example, according to media reports, his daughter Sumiye has a military hospital in southeastern Turkey where IS insurgents are treated.
The political scientist and expert on the Middle East and the Caucasus, Stanislav Tarasov, believes that the Turkish leader himself may have a direct connection with the Islamists.
“Recently, Turkey has been rocked by corruption scandals. And we may soon find out that President Erdogan is directly connected to the structures of ISIL (One of the names of the so-called “Islamic State”, ed.) and is leading the country to Islamization.
“And from here we see what is happening now. At the same time, Erdogan keeps the Turkish society in tension, the Turks are fighting all the time with some enemies – internal and external. As a result, Erdogan severed relations with many countries. He actually becomes enemy number one in the Middle East,” Stanislav Tarasov told Radio Sputnik.
The expert does not rule out that the attack on the Russian Su-24 military plane is a kind of revenge act by Turkey for the bombing of the Russian military planes on the IS rebels in Syria.
“This is the grossest provocation. And the involvement of Erdogan’s family in these events is the most direct. Among the reasons that aggravated Russian-Turkish relations, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev also pointed to the illegal trade in oil. And it is not excluded that what what happened to our plane is an act of revenge,” says the expert quoted by RIA Novosti.
According to him, the Turkish attack on the Russian plane will affect not only the bilateral relations between the Russian Federation and Turkey, but also the entire balance of power in the Middle East.
Erdogan finds himself in isolation, acquires the image of a corrupt, dictator. And Turkey itself is becoming a center of destabilization in the Middle East,” said Stanislav Tarasov.
According to him, the Turkish society, for its part, does not want to lose a partner in the face of Russia.
“The Turkish public fears that such a partner as Russia, and for Turkey it is the second most important partner, may simply leave. With Russia they linked their hopes, even for the preservation of territorial integrity, because everything happens on the borders of Turkey, and the Kurdish factor immediately emerges,” concludes the expert. / RIA “Novosti”
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