Late last week I appeared on CBN News to discuss potential terror ties between Turkey and Nigeria, in the context of my recent article, “Turkey: Arming Genocide of Christians in Nigeria?” The video and CBN’s official description follow:
“Egyptian TV News Report Alleges Turkey Supplying Weapons to Nigeria’s Boko Haram,” by Steve Warren, 11/14/2019:
Raymond Ibrahim, a Shillman Fellow in Journalism at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, and an expert on the Middle East and Islam, appeared on Thursday’s afternoon’s edition of CBN’s Newswatch to talk more about Turkey’s alleged ties to Islamic terrorism.
Turkey is clearly a terrorist state with a broad reach, according to an Egyptian television news program.
Ten.tv reports Turkey is supplying weapons to Boko Haram in Nigeria.
Ten.tv host Nasha’t al-Deyhi reported on a leak confirming an intercepted phone call from a few years back – confirming the action.
He reported in part: “Today’s leak confirms without a doubt that Erdogan, his state, his government, and his party are transferring weapons from Turkey to – this is a shock, to where you may ask – to Nigeria; and to whom? – to the Boko Haram organization.”
Raymond Ibrahim is the Shillman Fellow in Journalism at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and an expert on the Middle East and Islam. During an interview Thursday on CBN‘s Newswatch, Ibrahim said he’s not surprised by the Ten.tv report.
“The tape was made in 2014 or 15 and it was reported widely in certain areas, in the US and the west not so much and not much came out of it,” Ibrahim said. “The reason I think is that (Turkish President Recep Tayyip) Erdogan didn’t have his fingers so much in Islamist politics outside of his own nation.”
“But now that we’ve seen Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the ISIS Islamic state caliph that was killed recently, and he was found just three miles from the Turkish border, which is, in fact, the last bastion of jihadi-so-called ‘freedom fighters’ attacking the Syrian government,” he told CBN News.
“It has brought it up again, he (Erdogan) is supporting ISIS,” Ibrahim noted. “Now we’re remembering and that was I think the point of the Egyptian show, we’re bringing back to see that there’s some continuity here. He’s involved with some of the worst Islamic terror groups. If you remember, Boko Haram, whose name loosely means ‘western education is forbidden’, (Haram) was basically doing what ISIS was doing and is notorious for – years before ISIS was doing it.
“One of the things international observers have been noticing, especially increasingly, is that their armaments, their weapons are very sophisticated,” he continued. “It’s even spilled into the Fulani tribesmen in Nigeria and other parts of Africa. For example, in Burkina Faso, also in western Africa the attacks on Christians have become horrific in just the last few months.”
As CBN News reported, a senior State Department official said last week that Turkey is backing forces in Syria who have the same radical ideology as ISIS…. Keep reading
The only thing that is stopping wholesale slaughter of third world countries is the trade off and threat of losing out economically.
Adolf Hitler noted that turkey got away with the Armenian genocide because the attention of the rest of the globe was on WWII.
That much is obvious to Erdogan, who is playing for time, and like every other Muslim knows all about Taqiyya, unlike the west who happily buries its head in the sand on any issue relating to Islam, for fear of being labelled Islamophobic, racist, bigot, etc.