I have written much over the years about Turkey’s complicity with terrorism over the past decade. Interviews with a captured Islamic State prisoner, however, make clear that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s terror complicity is worse than many imagined, and not just because his son-in-law was dealing in Islamic State oil. Consider this piece from Homeland Security Today based on prison interviews with Abu Mansour al Maghrebi, the Islamic State’s liaison with Turkey’s intelligence service:
Anne Speckhard and Ardian Shajkovci, respectively director and senior fellow of the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism, further detail how Abu Mansour became the Islamic State’s de facto ambassador:
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