EXCLUSIVE: Sarin
materials brought via Turkey & mixed in Syrian ISIS camps – Turkish MP to
RT
Published time: 14 Dec,
2015 05:03Edited time: 14 Dec, 2015 15:34
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Islamic State terrorists
in Syria received all necessary materials to produce deadly sarin gas via
Turkey, Turkish MP Eren Erdem has told RT, insisting there are grounds to
believe a cover up has taken place.
The main opposition
Republican People's Party (CHP) member, Erdem, brought up the issue for public
discussion in parliament last week, citing evidence from an abruptly-closed
criminal case. He accused Ankara of failing to investigate Turkish supply
routes used to provide terrorists with toxic sarin gas ingredients.
“There is data in
this indictment. Chemical weapon materials are being brought to Turkey and
being put together in Syria in camps of ISIS which was known as Iraqi Al Qaeda
during that time," Erdem
told RT.
Sarin gas is a
military-grade chemical that was used in a notorious attack on Ghouta and
several other neighborhoods near the Syrian capital of Damascus in 2013. The
attacks were pinned on the Syrian leadership, who in turn agreed to get rid of
all chemical weapons stockpiles under a UN-brokered deal amid an imminent threat
of US intervention.
Addressing
parliamentarians on Thursday, Erdem showed a copy of the criminal case number
2013/120 that was opened by the General Prosecutor's Office in the city of
Adana in southern Turkey.
The investigation
revealed that a number of Turkish citizens took part in negotiations with
Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) representatives on the supply of sarin
gas. Pointing to evidence cited in the criminal case, he said that wiretapped
phone conversations proved that an Al-Qaeda militant, Hayyam Kasap, acquired
sarin.
“These are all
detected. There are phone recordings of this shipment like ‘don't worry about
the border, we’ll take care of it' and we also see the bureaucracy is being
used,” continued Erdem.
Based on the gathered
evidence Adana authorities conducted raids and arrested 13 suspects in the
case. But a week later, inexplicably, the case was closed and all the suspects
immediately crossed the Turkish-Syrian border, Erdem said.
“About the shipment,
Republic prosecutor of Adana, Mehmet Arıkan, made an operation and the related
people were detained. But as far as I understand he was not an influential
person in bureaucracy. A week after, another public prosecutor was assigned,
took over the indictment and all the detainees were released. And they left
Turkey crossing the Syrian border,”he said.
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“The phone
recordings in the indictment showed all the details from how the shipment was
going to be made to how it was prepared, from the content of the labs to the source
of the materials. Which trucks were going to be used, all dates etc. From A to
Z, everything was discussed and recorded. Despite all of this evidence, the
suspects were released,” he
said.
“And the shipment
happened,” Erdem added. “Because
no one stopped them. That’s why maybe the sarin gas used in Syria is a result
of this.”
Speaking to RT, Erdem
said that according to some evidence Turkish Mechanical and Chemical Industry
Corporation was also involved, with some unconfirmed reports pointing in the
direction of a government cover up, with Minister of Justice Bekir Bozdag’s
involvement.
Certain evidence suggests
Bozdag wanted to know beforehand from the sarin gas producer when and if the
Islamists will use the chemical weapon.
“When I read the
indictment, I saw clearly that these people have relationships with The
Machinery and Chemical Industry Institution of Turkey and they don’t have any
worries about crossing the border. For example in Hayyam Kasap's phone records,
you hear him saying sarin gas many times, saying that the ateliers are ready
for production, materials are waiting in trucks which were supposedly carrying
club soda,” he told RT.
The parliamentarian said
that now he feels like there is a witch hunt against him, after he confronted
the justice minister. Bozdag, according to Erdem denied only the part that he
wanted to get notified about the operations beforehand.
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Furthermore, Erdem argues
that the West purposely blamed the regime of Bashar Assad for the August 2013
attacks and used it as part of the pretext to make US military intervention in
Syria possible. The MP said that evidence in Adana’s case, according to his
judgment, proves that IS was responsible.
“For example the
chemical attack in Ghouta. Remember. It was claimed that the regime forces were
behind it. This attack was conducted just days before the sarin operation in
Turkey. It’s a high probability that this attack was carried out with those
basic materials shipped through Turkey. It is said the regime forces are
responsible but the indictment says it’s ISIS. UN inspectors went to the site
but they couldn’t find any evidence. But in this indictment, we’ve found the
evidence. We know who used the sarin gas, and our government knows it too,” he said.
At the same time, Erdem
also accused the West and Europe in particular for providing “basic
materials” to create such a powerful chemical weapon.
“All basic materials
are purchased from Europe. Western institutions should question themselves
about these relations. Western sources know very well who carried out the sarin
gas attack in Syria. They know these people, they know who these people are
working with, they know that these people are working for Al-Qaeda. I think is
Westerns are hypocrats about the situation,” he concluded.
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