Thursday, December 3, 2015

Turkey gives the cold shoulder to US proposal to seal Syria border

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has underlined the difficulties and potential complications of a move by Turkey to close the border with Syria, as a report revealed Ankara’s anger over U.S. leadership’s insistence on using Turkish ground forces on the border to accomplish this goal.

“Keeping the entire border with Syria [closed] may come on the agenda as a project but then what will you do about transiting refugees? We have a moral responsibility along this 911-kilometer-long border and it is accepting refugees. We have a strategic responsibility and it is ensuring security of the border. Not having terrorists transition and any negative developments on the Turkey-Syria border are in Turkey’s interest. We have paid the highest price for Daesh’s terrorist activities,” Davutoğlu said on Dec. 3 in response to a question on border security, using the Arabic acronym Daesh to refer to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

“There is nothing more difficult than protecting a border on the other side of which there is no political authority. There is no functioning state system or counterpart administration on the other side. At the moment, around 98 kilometers of our border seem under Daesh control. In the past months we had given orders to build physical barriers on the entire border and these physical barriers are being built. Control is maintained through signal systems but beyond that we are conducting all kinds of works to eradicate Daesh from these 98 kilometers,” Davutoğlu said at a press conference ahead of his departure for an official visit to Baku.

“The characteristic of Russia’s operations [in Syria], which are not against Daesh, is one of the factors which obstructs the eradication of Daesh from our borders,” he added...

 [hurriyetdailynews.com]
3/12/15
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  1. Turquía ve difícil cerrar su frontera con Siria...

    Es difícil cerrar las frontera entre Turquía y Siria, tal y como propusieron anteriormente EEUU y Rusia, declaró este jueves el primer ministro de Turquía, Ahmet Davutoglu.

    "No existe nada más difícil que proteger el otro lado de la frontera donde no hay autoridad política, no hay sistema de Estado ni una administración viable; cerca de 98 kilómetros de nuestra frontera con Siria parecen estar bajo control de Daesh (Estado Islámico, grupo terrorista proscrito en Rusia)", dijo Davutoglu citado por el diario Hurriyet Daily News.

    Según el jefe del Gobierno turco, "mantener (cerrada) la frontera entera con Siria podría formar parte de la agenda como un proyecto, pero entonces ¿qué hacer con el tránsito de refugiados?"

    "Tenemos una responsabilidad moral a lo largo de estos 911 kilómetros de aceptar a los refugiados", apuntó.

    El primer ministro turco subrayó que Turquía no está interesada en "tener tránsito de terroristas o algún desarrollo negativo en la frontera turco-siria".

    "El control se mantiene a través de sistemas de señalización pero, además, estamos realizando todo tipo de trabajo para expulsar a Daesh de estos 98 kilómetros" de la frontera turco-siria, aseguró.
    http://mundo.sputniknews.com

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  2. Zahlreiche Facetten des Türkei-Daesh-Ölgeschäfts...

    Die illegale Kooperation zwischen Ankara und der Terrormiliz Daesh (auch „Islamischer Staat“, IS) ist wesentlich vielfältiger, als bislang bekannt, berichtet die österreichische Online-Zeitung Die Presse.

    Dem Artikelautor Martin Gehlen zufolge kontrollierten Daesh-Kämpfer bereits einen fast 100 Kilometer langen Streifen der syrisch-türkischen Grenze zwischen Dscharabulus und Kilis, über den der Schmuggel mit Erdöl, Waffen und Antiquitäten erfolge. Über diese unter Kontrolle von Terroristen stehenden Gebiete würden zudem Daesh-Rekruten in die Türkei und zurück geschleust.

    Obwohl sich Ankara formal der von den USA angeführten Koalition gegen den Daesh angeschlossen habe, würde die türkische Luftwaffe fast ausschließlich Angriffe auf Stellungen der Arbeiterpartei Kurdistans und der kurdischen Miliz YPG in Syrien und im Irak fliegen. Damit attackiere die Türkei jedoch ausgerechnet diejenigen Einheiten, die als einzige Bodenkraft in der Region gegen Daesh kämpfen kann..............http://de.sputniknews.com/politik/20151204/306173901/tuerkei-daesh-oelgeschaeft.html#ixzz3tM8pdWuk

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