We know that President of Turkey, RT Erdogan is a cunning Islamist dictator who has increased his power by tying his opponents in a series of false cases. First he took help from a Muslim cleric, Fethullah Gulen, founder of the Gulen movement, to emasculate the army. Having achieved control over the armed forces Erdogan has turned against his former friend and accused Gulen of plotting a coup. Gulen is now hiding in the US. Prosecutors investigating corruption charges against Erdogan's family and top officials have fled the country before they were themselves arrested. Only a few years back Erdogan was signing business deals with Syria's Assad, yet now hates him so bitterly that he is helping ISIS to destroy Assad. Saudi Arabia and Qatar have been financing terrorists in Syria through Turkey, much as the US financed Afghan Mujahideen through the ISI in Pakistan and allowed Pakistan to develop nuclear weapons. Western powers are bombing ISIS from the air but the only trained fighters who are engaging them on the ground are the Kurds. Instead of bombing ISIS Turkish jets are bombing Kurdish fighters in Iraq and in Syria. In general elections in June Erdogan's party failed to win absolute majority in parliament and the Kurdish party, the HDP won seats for the first time. Erdogan wants to increase his powers as president so he mounted a vicious campaign of intimidation against the HDP which was so successful that his party won majority in parliament in new elections last month. He must have thought that he was invincible. Until Russia joined the fight against ISIS. One of the main sources of revenue for ISIS has been oil from Syrian refineries that it has captured. Russia started targeting ISIS oil trucks which enraged Erdogan because his son, Bilal is making handsome profits from smuggling ISIS oil. Russia has revealed satellite images as proof of ISIS trucks going into Turkey. Seeing his machinations beginning to unravel Erdogan got his air force to shoot down a SU-24 jet returning from a bombing mission in Syria. The plane had apparently crossed Turkish territory for 17 seconds. The plane was shot from the rear. The 2 pilots bailed out and were shot at by terrorists on the ground, no doubt having been primed by Turkey. Instead of contacting Putin, Erdogan quickly contacted NATO, in an effort to precipitate a war between Russia and NATO. The US apparently knew the exact flight path of the doomed plane which would not be a surprise because US and Russian commanders agreed to work together so that their planes do not clash accidentally. Obama has been inciting Russia, first by engineering an armed coup in Ukraine, then by applying sanctions and now by inviting Montenegro to join NATO. Meanwhile, David Cameron has been itching to bomb Syria, not having learnt from having caused a disaster in Libya. Seems that all the stupid villains have come to power at the same time. God help us.
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