Turkish reality from the actual border crossing.....
Official #Russian propaganda outlets stating "oil tankers" but showing usual trucks passing #Syria-#Turkey border.
Taken from the Russian info warfare media outlet Sputnik Germany....Russian altered state of reality....
Fotostrecke Tanklaster passieren ungehindert syrisch-trkische Grenze
http://sptnkne.ws/akZK
Russian deputy PM Rogozin: "Russia has only three allies: the army, the fleet, and the military-industrial complex." https://twitter.com/Rogozin/status/672769551080275968 …
This kind of leaves the Iranians and Assad out in the cold it appears........
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I’ve lost count of Assad’s cousins tbh, but this one called Jamal Kifah Assad has now mysteriously died apparently.
Russia's "concern" for the region...please: #Russia begins delivering S-300 air defense system to #Iran
http://www.timesofisrael.com/russia-...ystem-to-iran/ …
Assad army in #Syria equipped /w #Russian army fatigue, helmet, body armor, goggles.
pic.twitter.com/etKIupOShu
no pouches for mags, radio, frags,...?
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Typical Russian info warrior and his article for the main Russian info war media outlet Russia Today.....
https://www.rt.com/op-edge/324602-tu...atman-erdogan/
Home/Op-Edge/
Holy smoke Batman! Erdogan has to go
Finian Cunningham (born 1963) has written extensively on international affairs, with articles published in several languages. Originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland, he is a Master’s graduate in Agricultural Chemistry and worked as a scientific editor for the Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, England, before pursuing a career in newspaper journalism. For over 20 years he worked as an editor and writer in major news media organizations, including The Mirror, Irish Times and Independent. Now a freelance journalist based in East Africa, his columns appear on RT, Sputnik, Strategic Culture Foundation and Press TV.Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been shooting from the lip over the past week since the fatal shooting down of a Russian fighter jet. He truculently denied accusations of supporting terrorism, challenging Russia to prove it. Well, holy smoke Batman!
Yes, Batman. Not the caped screen hero. Instead, we’re talking about the city of the same name, located in Turkey’s southeastern region. It is where Turkey’s state-owned oil industry is centered.
Batman is also where the oil smuggling routes run by the Islamic State terror network are centered, according to surveillance images released this week by the Russian Defense Ministry.
Air reconnaissance photos show thousands of trucks running stolen oil from Syrian state-owned fields in the east of the country converging on the Turkish city of Batman, near the Syrian border.
The oil smuggling operation has been going for at least two years since the so-called Islamic State (IS) terror group took over the oilfields in eastern Syria near the city of Deir Ezzor. The illicit trade is reckoned to have been earning the jihadists up to $3 million a day to help fund their war against the Syrian government of President Assad.
But smuggled oil needs a buyer for the enterprise to work. Enter Turkey. This week, before the latest data release from the Russian Ministry of Defense, President Vladimir Putin repeated claims that Turkish authorities were involved in facilitating the terrorist oil trade. Putin told world leaders at the Paris climate change conference that this was a factor in why Turkish warplanes shot down a Russian fighter jet last week, with the loss of the pilot’s life and that of another serviceman during a follow-up rescue mission.
Erdogan reacted angrily to the claim, dismissing it as “slander”. Erdogan testily put the challenge to Russia to present its proof.
“The accusation that Turkey allegedly buys crude oil from Islamic State is unacceptable, and to say it is amoral,” said Erdogan. “You can’t just say things, you need to present evidence. If documents exist — let’s see them. If this fact is proven, I will not stay in my position.”
If Erdogan is a man of his word, which is doubtful, then he should start packing his bags. Right now.
The evidence presented by Russia’s military high command shows beyond any doubt that Turkey is central to Islamic State’s illegal oil trade and thus the terror group’s ability to fund its violence.
Russia’s Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov didn’t mince words about the revelation. He said: “According to our data, the top political leadership of the country – President Erdogan and his family – is involved in this criminal business.”
What is particularly incriminating from the Russian data is that the east Syrian oil route operated by IS is destined for the Turkish city of Batman. Batman is the heart of the Turk oil industry. It is where the country’s biggest oilfield is located and where major refineries are based.
From Batman there is a 500-kilometre pipeline running westwards to the Mediterranean port cities of Dortyol and Ceyhan, both located in the Gulf of Iskenderun. The pipeline, which has a capacity to supply up to 30 million barrels of crude oil a year, is owned and operated by Turkey’s state-owned BOTAS Petroleum Corporation.
The port of Ceyhan is where the licensed shipping company BMZ owned by President Erdogan’s son Bilal and other family members is based. BMZ is a big Turkish player in the global oil trade.
Significantly, Turkish newspaper Today's Zaman reported in September this year that Erdogan’s BMZ spent $36 million in acquiring two new oil tankers to bring its total fleet to five. The ships are believed to ferry much of their crude oil cargos to Japan and other Asian countries. Business is booming and it’s no wonder.
Putin had earlier responded to Erdogan’s denials of collusion in terrorist oil smuggling by saying that “it is hard to imagine how the Turkish authorities could not be aware of the industrial-scale transport of oil across its border.”
But now Russian aerial images have presented a complete picture of how this massive oil supply is being routed through Turkey with state-owned companies.
The personal complicity of Erdogan through his family shipping business makes his resignation unquestionable. Furthermore, the Turkish president should face prosecution for gross violations of international law amounting to war crimes.
Surely, the Americans must know about the industrial-scale oil smuggling routes? For more than a year, since the US began bombing raids on Syria, allegedly against the Islamic State terror network, the oil smuggling has been untouched.
This week, General Joseph Dunford, the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a Congressional committee that it was only in the last two months that the Pentagon got serious with airstrikes on IS oil routes. He admitted that for more than a year, the Pentagon hadn’t bothered because it wasn’t communicating sufficiently with the State Department. Dunford and the US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, who was also giving evidence to the same committee, both claimed that the decision not to strike oil trucks run by terrorists was to taken in order to “avoid civilian casualties.”
December 3, 2015. Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers his annual Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly at the Kremlin's St. George Hall. © Ramil Sitdikov‘Allah took their sanity’: Putin accuses Turkish leadership of ‘aiding terror’
That explanation does not stack up. The fact is, as Russia’s Defense Ministry spokesman Lieutenant-General Sergey Rudskoy said; the US has done little to nothing to halt the terror oil trade out of Syria. Russia, by contrast, has destroyed dozens of oil processing facilities and over 1,000 trucks since it began its military intervention less than two months ago – wholesale damage that has cut terror smuggling revenues by 50 percent, according to the Russian military.
Now that Russia has presented a damning picture of how Islamic State and other jihadist terror groups have been financing their terror campaign in Syria a ball of questions is in the US court.
Turkey is a member of the US-led NATO military alliance, the organization supposedly responsible for maintaining security and defense in Europe. Turkey must surely be kicked out of NATO for its role in sponsoring terrorism.
How can France, in particular, remain in the same military alliance with a country that is financing terror groups that were involved in a mass killing on the streets of Paris only three weeks ago?
But Washington and its allies have much more to answer for. Oil convoys heading north into Turkey is just one half of a giant racket, with the other half involving convoys of weapons and jihadists fighters heading south into Syria. US and British military intelligence are implicated in this terror transmission, according to American journalist Seymour Hersh.
The weapons supply from Turkey to terror groups in Syria, with the collusion of Turkish state intelligence, is coming to light with the arrest last week of Turkish journalists who have dared to uncover the state-sponsored oil-for-weapons racket.
Russia’s latest evidence presents a stark choice. The world can now see who is fueling conflict and terrorism in Syria and beyond. Turkey is a state sponsor of terrorism. And other NATO members are also implicated. If legal sanctions do not follow, then we will know, chillingly, that the world has descended into gangsterism and barbarism.
The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT.
Another Hezbollah group fighting in Syria..........
Hezbollah/Islamic Resistance militia Saraya sl-Ghalibun in south #Aleppo countryside:
Civilian deaths from just today's Russian air strikes.......
The massacres committed by the Russian aviation occupation:
11 martyrs in #Jisreen
15 in #KafrBatna
11 in #Talbiseh
17 in #Daraa's rural
3 #Syria|n children burned alive in Kafr Batna, Rif Dimashq after a #Russia|n bombardment hit the car they were in.
Horrific slaughter by regime warplanes in KafrBatna in Damascus suburbs today. #Syria (GRAPHIC)
http://youtu.be/iF9ggLRlYI8
Killed after posing for pictures, the five-year-old victim of Russia's airstrikes on Syria
http://trib.al/TwBHbPy
What is interesting is that just when the Southern Front gets ready and is able to apply military pressure on Assad by taking new territory they get suddenly halted by the US and Jordan.....that was the case when they were this summer on an offensive roll and then suddenly stopped just as the TOWs were becoming effective---then the TOWs stopped coming as well.
Appears the US is trying to influence just how much territory is taken from Assad or better yet are they really interested in keeping Assad in power........
Never mind. Scratch that. Offensive on Jadiyeh has been halted by MOC, the Southern Front's puppet masters.
What is interesting is that just when the Southern Front gets ready and is able to apply military pressure on Assad by taking new territory they get suddenly halted by the US and Jordan.....that was the case when they were this summer on an offensive roll and then suddenly stopped just as the TOWs were becoming effective---then the TOWs stopped coming as well.
Appears the US is trying to influence just how much territory is taken from Assad or better yet are they really interested in keeping Assad in power........
Never mind. Scratch that. Offensive on Jadiyeh has been halted by MOC, the Southern Front's puppet masters.
Russians and Assad continue to kill civilians AND not a single Western leader says a single word..........
Graphic!
Reported #RussianAirstrike killed, wounded several children in #Talbisah.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCtl--czJvA …
Some activists say, the #KafrBatnaMassacre was caused by a "Russian enemies" jet.
But this is unconfirmed.
Multiple civilians, including children, killed in #KafrBatna.
Not bombing #Assad means acceptance of his crimes.
BREAKING
17 civilians killed in #Assad/#Putin airstrike on #KafrBatna, S-E of #Damascus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaTjOxhCwkI …
Breaking
An #Assad/#Putin airstrike on a market in #Jisreen caused a massacre among civil.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdi6GumMR-8 …
Footage
New 120 mm mortars and launcher for the #FSA in the #Ghab plain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VarYWP-YGPA …
Rebels try to reenter #Kafrah,captured by #ISIS under #RussianAirstrikes on Wednesd.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6T0Owk3oCA …
Nope.
#Soleimani is NOT in the best shape ...
Soleimani is definitely seriously injured if not on life support in order to give the Khamenei government a chance to prepare the public for his death.
On 29 Nov a QF website Alwaght released what it called an interview in the office of Soleimani in Tehran which has been picked up by a large number of major and minor Iranian media sites and the picture used of him is over a year old and taken from the internet..
Major loss if he is no longer able to command and a major propaganda victory for the FSA..........
The original source was coming from one IRGC close journalist and then confirmed by MEK.
Russia bombs #Turkey-#Syria trade at border crossings north of #Alepo where #IS is not present.
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Russian sealift...... Syrian Express on the move again.....
This is the 9th Syrian deployment of #ВМФ #ЧМФ BSF 158 Tsezar Kunikov, more than any other Russian ship.
De-escalation of courtesy flag wars: #ВМФ #ЧМФ 158 Tsezar Kunikov hoisted courtesy Turkish flag & Andreevsky
Appears Russia discovered that if Turkey even "feels threatened" they can shut down the Straits under the 1936 treaty.
Will in fact Putin's economy totally crash before he achieves anything in eastern Ukraine and in Syria---at an estimated 6M USD per day for his wars, the Crimea in total darkness, and 90 RF regional governments totally bankrupt....the race is on.....
Truckers protest spotlights Russia's economic crisis, tests Putin narrative blaming foreigners, West 4 domestic woes http://www.novayagazeta.ru/politics/71031.html …
Creating ever new wars to distract you own population from a failing economy can for on only for so long....
At 30 USD per barrel the Russian economy is toast.....
Uh ho.. oil down to $43 already body blow to Russia on day pass budget with $50 assumption https://twitter.com/markets/status/672777709953486849 …
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Seems Putin got the Erdogan message with the go slow clearance of shipping through the straights since 30 Nov.....Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09
All quiet on the #Bosphorus front, russian cargos and military ships are passing through normally today
Regardless of how many times the social media open source analysts shred the Russian MoD briefings and videos they just keep on trying.....AND not actually improving with the practice......one would think they would finally give up and go home.
Talking about bad #Photoshop skills ... "Air strike on Raqqa"
https://twitter.com/mod_russia/statu...22559432314880 … pic.twitter.com/pTggVn4WSG
What the heck is Germany up to these days????
First their BND (CIA) attacks the KSA and then their political leaders bash their own BND THEN.......
Germany 'draws up plans to prevent sharing intelligence' with Nato ally Turkey
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...medium=twitter … pic.twitter.com/3kwTxwiIIm
SO is Merkel really now going to determine who she works with inside NATO????
The current situation in #Syria summed up in one image, Russian jet watching American drone watching ISIS:
pic.twitter.com/89FJ4FH1hf
BUT still no direct and deliberate Russian air strikes on anything that even resembles IS---wonder why???
Under the rubric of actually being sad and wondering why the West has basically abandoned Syrian civilians to a number of different forms of genocide by both Assad and Putin...
Russian Killed by a Russian bomb, a five-year-old visiting relatives in Syria
http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...P=share_btn_tw …
pic.twitter.com/JGsqNMpZY1
Julia Davis @JuliaDavisNews
#Russia is engaged in some dangerous, dangerous trolling.
#Turkey
https://twitter.com/ensarcaliskan/st...82751578365952 …
https://twitter.com/alperboler/statu...32016837136387 …
pic.twitter.com/Cjinkq9fRh
These are two of the best Bosphorus ship watchers that I monitor for this thread--worth checking into on occasions....
Yörük Işık @YorukIsik
Sailor on #ЧМФ Tsezar Kunikov poses with his MANPADS-possible 9K38 Igla-on the Bosphorus
pic.twitter.com/nIevYjcUBj
alper boler @alperboler
Russian soldier standing atop Kunikov today with a manpad on his sholder while crossing the bosphorus. Why? Anyone? pic.twitter.com/U16LDY0cZm
alper boler @alperboler İstanbul, Türkiye
Apparently this soldier spent the whole pass like that. I got one shot aimed at me, too.
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