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Kurdish Leader Says He Has Proof Turkey Backs ISIS & Other Terrorists

A top Kurdish commander has claimed that he has documentary evidence confirming that Turkey has given support to the terrorist groups. Murat Karayılan, co-founder of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)  told Russian media that along with Saudi Arabia and Qatar, Turkey has been furnishing extremists with weapons and munitions. RT reports: Karayılan has been the acting leader of the PKK, a group considered terrorists by Turkey and the US, since its original leader Abdullah Öcalan was captured in 1999. Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has an “ideological inter-relationship” and joint interests with the radical Islamists, Karayılan said in an interview to RIA given in the Qandil Mountains, an area in Iraqi Kurdistan, next to the Iraq–Iran border. “Along with Saudi Arabia and Qatar, Turkey has been sponsoring jihadists [in Syria] that emerged from Al-Qaeda… These states backed and armed radical Salafi groups, which base all of their actions on sharia [law],” he said. Turkey was fostering Al-Nusra Front and Islamic State from the very beginning, Karayılan claims. “We’re 100 percent positive Turkey is maintaining contact with IS, we’ve seen it with our own eyes,” the PKK leader said, stressing that meetings between top Turkish negotiators and IS members [...]