Turkish government is directly coordinating with ISIS

Beirut, SANA – Secretary General of the European Organization for Security and Information, Ambassador Haitham Abu Saeed stressed that the government of the Justice and Development Party in Turkey is directly coordinating with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist organization to serve the U.S.-Western schemes in the region.

In a statement released on Thursday, Abu Saeed said the recent talks which the American military delegation held in Turkey revealed the Turkish side’s insistence on maintaining the close relations with ISIS, with the former calling for drawing up a frame for the war waged by the newly formed US-led international alliance against ISIS.

The frame, urged by Turkey, provides for preventing, through financial pressure, any ISIS expansion outside the lines set for the terrorist organization between the Euphrates and Orontes rivers, according to Abu Saeed’s statement.

He clarified that the Turkish government’s scheme outlined for ISIS allows it to cross the aforementioned lines towards the desert zone between the Euphrates River and the Jordanian and Saudi borders.

The Turkish scheme, Abu Saeed added, provides also that ISIS take control of the Syrian border city of Ayn al-Arab, also known as Kobane, with the aim, according to the Turkish side, of keeping ISIS as a geographical barrier separating Iran and Syria whose cooperation threatens Israel and blocks the passage of oil and gas pipelines from Iran and Iraq towards the Mediterranean.

He pointed out that the only sticking point that has been so far there between the US and Turkey is the issue of the Turkish intervention in Syria, to which Iran has been alert, prompting it to announce its full support for Syria in fighting terrorism.

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