{"id":178438,"date":"2015-12-01T07:09:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T06:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/?p=77899"},"modified":"2023-04-27T14:09:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T11:09:07","slug":"meet-the-man-who-funds-isis-bilal-erdogan-the-son-of-turkeys-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2015\/12\/01\/meet-the-man-who-funds-isis-bilal-erdogan-the-son-of-turkeys-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet The Man Who Funds ISIS: Bilal Erdogan, The Son Of Turkey\u2019s President"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"category_left\">\n<div class=\"category_right sidebar\">\n<div class=\"nav-next\">\n<div class=\"lsingle_excerpt font-6\">In addition to son Bilal\u2019s illegal and lucrative oil trading for ISIS, S\u00fcmeyye Erdogan, the daughter of the Turkish President apparently runs a secret hospital camp inside Turkey just over the Syrian border.<\/div>\n<div class=\"lsingle_author font-6\"><b>By <span class=\"entry-author\"> ZeroHedge.com <\/span> <\/b> | <span class=\"entry-date\">November 30, 2015<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"lsingle_content font-6\">\n<p>Russia\u2019s Sergey Lavrov is not one foreign minister known to mince his words. Just earlier today, 24 hours after a Russian plane was brought down by the country whose president three years ago said \u201ca short-term border violation can never be a pretext for an attack\u201d, had this to say: \u201cWe have serious doubts this was an unintended incident and believe this is a planned provocation\u201d by Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>But even that was tame compared to what Lavrov said to his Turkish counterparty Mevlut Cavusoglu earlier today during a phone call between the two (Lavrov who was supposed to travel to Turkey has since canceled such plans).<\/p>\n<p>As Sputnik transcribes, according to a press release from Russia\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lavrov pointed out that, \u201cby shooting down a Russian plane on a counter-terrorist mission of the Russian Aerospace Force in Syria, and one that did not violate Turkey\u2019s airspace, <strong>the Turkish government has in effect sided with ISIS.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was in this context when Lavrov added that \u201c<strong>Turkey\u2019s actions appear premeditated, planned, and undertaken with a specific objective.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, Lavrov pointed to Turkey\u2019s role in the propping up the terror network through the oil trade. Per the Russian statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe Russian Minister reminded his counterpart about Turkey\u2019s involvement in the ISIS\u2019 illegal trade in oil, which is transported via the area where the Russian plane was shot down, <strong>and about the terrorist infrastructure, arms and munitions depots and control centers that are also located there<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Others reaffirmed Lavrov\u2019s stance, such as retired French General Dominique Trinquand, who said that \u201cTurkey is either not fighting ISIL at all or very little, and does not interfere with different types of smuggling that takes place on its border, be it oil, phosphate, cotton or people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The reason we find this line of questioning fascinating is that just last week in the aftermath of the French terror attack but long before the Turkish downing of the Russian jet, we wrote about \u201cThe Most Important Question About ISIS That Nobody Is Asking\u201d in which we asked who is the one <strong>\u201cbreaching every known law of funding terrorism when buying ISIS crude, almost certainly with the tacit approval by various \u201cwestern alliance\u201d governments, and why is it that these governments have allowed said middleman to continue funding ISIS for as long as it has?<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Precisely one week later, in even more tragic circumstances, suddenly everyone is asking this question.<\/p>\n<p>And while we patiently dig to find who the <em>on and offshore <\/em>\u201ccommodity trading\u201d middleman are, who cart away ISIS oil to European and other international markets in exchange for hundreds of millions of dollars, one name keeps popping up as the primary culprit of regional demand for the Islamic State\u2019s \u201cterrorist oil\u201d \u2013 that of Turkish president Recep Erdogan\u2019s son: <strong>Bilal Erdogan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>His very brief bio:<\/p>\n<p><em>Necmettin Bilal Erdogan, commonly known as Bilal Erdogan (born 23 April 1980) is the third child of Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, the current President of Turkey.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>After graduating from Kartal Imam Hatip High School in 1999<strong>, Bilal Erdogan moved to the US for undergraduate education. He also earned a Masters Degree in John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 2004<\/strong>. After graduation, <strong>he served in the World Bank as intern for a while<\/strong>. He returned Turkey in 2006 and started to his business life. Bilal Erdogan is one of the three equal shareholders of \u201cBMZ Group Denizcilik \u201c, a marine transportation corporation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here is a recent picture of Bilal, shown in a photo from a Turkish 2014 article, which \u201casked why his ships are now in Syria\u201d:<\/p>\n<p>In the next few days, we will present a full breakdown of Bilal\u2019s various business ventures, starting with his BMZ Group which is the name implicated most often in the smuggling of illegal Iraqi and Islamic State through to the western supply chain, but for now here is a brief, if very disturbing snapshot, of both father and son Erdogan by F. William Engdahl, one which should make everyone ask whether the son of Turkey\u2019s president (and thus, the father) is the silent mastermind who has been responsible for converting millions of barrels of Syrian Oil into hundreds of millions of dollars of Islamic State revenue.<\/p>\n<p><em>By F. William Engdahl, posted originally in New Eastern Outlook:<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Erdogan\u2019s Dirth Dangerous ISIS Games<\/h2>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">More and more details are coming to light revealing that the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, variously known as ISIS, IS or Daesh, is being fed and kept alive by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish President and by his Turkish intelligence service, including MIT, the Turkish CIA. Turkey, as a result of Erdogan\u2019s pursuit of what some call a Neo-Ottoman Empire fantasies that stretch all the way to China, Syria and Iraq, threatens not only to destroy Turkey but much of the Middle East if he continues on his present path. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">In October 2014 US Vice President Joe Biden told a Harvard gathering that Erdogan\u2019s regime was backing ISIS with \u201chundreds of millions of dollars and thousands of tons of weapons\u2026\u201d <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">Biden later apologized clearly for tactical reasons to get Erdo?an\u2019s permission to use Turkey\u2019s Incirlik Air Base for airstrikes against ISIS in Syria, but the dimensions of Erdogan\u2019s backing for ISIS since revealed is far, far more than Biden hinted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">ISIS militants were trained by US, Israeli and now it emerges, by Turkish special forces at secret bases in Konya Province inside the Turkish border to Syria, over the past three years. <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">Erdo?an\u2019s involvement in ISIS goes much deeper. At a time when Washington, Saudi Arabia and even Qatar appear to have cut off their support for ISIS, they remaining amazingly durable. The reason appears to be the scale of the backing from Erdo?an and his fellow neo-Ottoman Sunni Islam Prime Minister, <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">Ahmet Davuto?lu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span lang=\"en-US\">Nice Family Business<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The prime source of money feeding ISIS these days is sale of Iraqi oil from the Mosul region oilfields where they maintain a stronghold. The son of Erdogan it seems is the man who makes the export sales of ISIS-controlled oil possible. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"en-US\">Bilal Erdo?an owns several maritime companies. He has allegedly signed contracts with European operating companies to carry Iraqi stolen oil to different Asian countries. The Turkish government buys Iraqi plundered oil which is being produced from the Iraqi seized oil wells. Bilal Erdogan\u2019s maritime companies own special wharfs in Beirut and Ceyhan ports that are transporting ISIS\u2019 smuggled crude oil in Japan-bound oil tankers.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">G\u00fcrsel Tekin vice-president of the Turkish Republican Peoples\u2019 Party, CHP, declared in a recent Turkish media interview, \u201cPresident Erdogan claims that according to international transportation conventions there is no legal infraction concerning Bilal\u2019s illicit activities and his son is doing an ordinary business with the registered Japanese companies, but in fact Bilal Erdo?an is up to his neck in complicity with terrorism, but as long as his father holds office he will be immune from any judicial prosecution.\u201d <strong>Tekin adds that Bilal\u2019s maritime company doing the oil trades for ISIS, BMZ Ltd, is \u201ca family business and president Erdogan\u2019s close relatives hold shares in BMZ and they misused public funds and took illicit loans from Turkish banks.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">In addition to son Bilal\u2019s illegal and lucrative oil trading for ISIS, S\u00fcmeyye Erdogan, the daughter of the Turkish President apparently runs a secret hospital camp inside Turkey just over the Syrian border where Turkish army trucks daily being in scores of wounded ISIS Jihadists to be patched up and sent back to wage the bloody Jihad in Syria, according to the testimony of a nurse who was recruited to work there until it was discovered she was a member of the Alawite branch of Islam, the same as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad who Erdogan seems hell-bent on toppling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Turkish citizen Ramazan Bagol, captured this month by Kurdish People\u2019s Defence Units,YPG, as he attempted to join ISIS from Konya province, told his captors that said he was sent to ISIS by the \u2018Ismailia Sect,\u2019 a strict Turkish Islam sect reported to be tied to Recep Erdogan. Baol said the sect recruits members and provides logistic support to the radical Islamist organization. He added that the Sect gives jihad training in neighborhoods of Konya and sends those trained here to join ISIS gangs in Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">According to French geopolitical analyst, Thierry Meyssan, Recep Erdogan \u201corganised the pillage of Syria, dismantled all the factories in Aleppo, the economic capital, and stole the machine-tools. Similarly, he organised the theft of archeological treasures and set up an international market in Antioch\u2026with the help of General Beno\u00eet Puga, Chief of Staff for the Elys\u00e9e, he organised a false-flag operation intended to provoke the launching of a war by the Atlantic Alliance \u2013 the chemical bombing of la Ghoutta in Damascus, in August 2013. \u201c<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\"><strong>Meyssan claims that the Syria strategy of Erdo?an was initially secretly developed in coordination with former French Foreign Minister Alain Jupp\u00e9 and Erdogan\u2019s then Foreign Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu, in 2011<\/strong>, after Juppe won a hesitant Erdogan to the idea of supporting the attack on traditional Turkish ally Syria in return for a promise of French support for Turkish membership in the EU. France later backed out, leaving Erdogan to continue the Syrian bloodbath largely on his own using ISIS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Gen. John R. Allen, an opponent of Obama\u2019s Iran peace strategy, now US diplomatic envoy coordinating the coalition against the Islamic State, exceeded his authorized role after meeting with Erdogan and \u201cpromised to create a \u201cno-fly zone\u201d ninety miles wide, over Syrian territory, along the whole border with Turkey, supposedly intended to help Syrian refugees fleeing from their government, but in reality to apply the \u201cJupp\u00e9-Wright plan\u201d. The Turkish Prime Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, revealed US support for the project on the TV channel <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">A Haber<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> by launching a bombing raid against the PKK.\u201d Meyssan adds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">There are never winners in war and Erdogan\u2019s war against Syria\u2019s Assad demonstrates that in bold. Turkey and the world deserve better. Ahmet Davutoglu\u2019s famous \u201cZero Problems With Neighbors\u201d foreign policy has been turned into massive problems with all neighbors due to the foolish ambitions of Erdogan and his gang.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to son Bilal\u2019s illegal and lucrative oil trading for ISIS, S\u00fcmeyye Erdogan, the daughter of the Turkish President apparently runs a secret hospital camp inside Turkey just over the Syrian border. By ZeroHedge.com | November 30, 2015 Russia\u2019s Sergey Lavrov is not one foreign minister known to mince his words. 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