By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor on December 23, 2015
Sources tell VT that Erdogan's family gets a cut of
this trade also, perhaps not just money
[ Editor’s Note : Veterans Today
begins with the German report (translated) and with the RT news story on a
Turkish legal organization fighting back against Erdogan’s complicity in
Christian slavery. Veterans Today encourages all readers from America,
Israel, Europe (Russia) and beyond to bring this issue up in every forum,
official and unofficial. It is time our governments stopped their full
complicity in this kind of brutality…Gordon Duff ]
IS in Turkey earned
millions through ransoms for Yezidi slaves and their children
IS provides women and underage
children in a kind of virtual slave market with photos for sale. This was
revealed by research conducted by NDR and SWR, talking to affected families and
negotiators and could evaluate relevant documents.The transfer of money, so the
reporter found out, it runs also through IS-liaison office in Turkey.
There are mainly Yezidi families
that buy back their loved ones, to save them. About a year ago, the terrorist
group IS raided large parts of northern Iraq and then brought thousands of
women and children as war booty into their hands. Meanwhile, the self-styled
Islamic State uses the Yezidis also to finance its organizations. NDR and SWR
accompanied weeks a Yezidi negotiator who negotiates on behalf of the families
on the release of the slaves and their children with the IS. Using chat logs,
documents, photographs and witness statements can be reconstructed perfidious system.
Some of the women are sold in a
digital slave market to the highest bidder. 15,000 to 20,000 US dollars are a
common price.Similar sums are also required at the ransoming of Yezidis. The
money is then transferred via IS-liaison offices and middlemen to the terror
group. In the course of our research it became clear that such an office is
located near the border with Syria in the Turkish industrial town of Gaziantep
– apparently unnoticed by the Turkish security authorities.
A jesidischer negotiator stated
against NDR and SWR to have in the course of last year, about 250 women and
their children exempted and thereby paid a total of more than 2.5 million US
dollars. The money comes from Yezidi families who use their savings and loans
to raise the sum.
Also, a semi-governmental
organization of the incumbent Prime Minister of northern Iraq, Nechirvan
Barzani, apparently pays part of the ransom – ultimately unintentionally to his
enemy, the IS.
NDR and SWR were present at the
liberation of a woman and her three small children aged between two and four
years of age and were able to accompany the development of the
negotiations. How many Yezidi slaves are still “owned” by the IS is
unclear. Experts estimate that there still could be hundreds. A lucrative
business for the IS. Read more on Sunday 29 November at 19.20 in the “mirror
world” in the First
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Turkish bar association sues
national intel agency & police over ISIS slave trade
RT: The head of a regional
Turkish legal association says the organization has filed a criminal complaint
against the Turkish authorities after a German documentary alleged that Islamic
State are carrying out a slave trade of women on Turkish soil.
Bektas Sarkli, the head of
Gaziantep Bar Association, has brought the suit against the Turkish law
enforcement and intelligence agencies following allegations that Yazidi women
and children were being trafficked.
“We decided to file a
complaint after the allegations were made on German ARD TV. They alleged that
the Yazidi people were traded by ISIS (Islamic State/IS) in a slave market here
in Gaziantep. The prosecution must investigate this,” Sarkli said.
“If there is evidence,
then the suspects must be caught and tried. If there has been neglect of duty
on the side of the security forces or intelligence, then they must be
punished,” he added.
The documentary followed a Kurdish man who buys back
slaves that have been captured by Islamic State and returns them to their
families.
The person contacts the terror
group over the internet, before travelling to Turkey to complete the deal. The
transactions allegedly take place in the city of Gaziantep, which is only 40
kilometers away from the Syrian-Turkish border.
The man in question says he has
paid IS around US$2.5 million in 2015 to return women and children to their
families.
The allegations have also been
condemned by Mahmut Togrul, a Turkish MP from Gaziantep. He says that more
needs to be done to try and stop the flow of IS fighters freely crossing the
Syrian-Turkish border, while he also alleges that the Turkish authorities do
not always regard IS as “terrorists.”
“During our observations
here, we have shared with the Turkish public that ISIS was moving freely in
Gaziantep and the city has become a support line for them. There is the
presence of thugs from all over the world who are able to cross the border,
while they even have the nerve to tell Turkish soldiers that they want to join
ISIS. This means they have hundreds of contacts here,” he
told RT.
“We reiterate our calls
to the authorities that measures have to be taken. Subconsciously, the
authorities still do not regard ISIS as a terrorist organization and their members
as terrorists,” Togrul, who is a member of the
Peoples’ Democratic Party, added.
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Up to 5,000 Yazidis kept as sex
slaves
The Yazidis have been on the receiving end of some of
the worst atrocities carried out by IS, with numerous mass graves having been
uncovered in Iraq and Syria.
The jihadists argue that capturing Yazidi women is
justified because they are “unbelievers” and do not follow
Islam. According to a pamphlet released by IS at the end of 2014, members are
permitted to have sex with Yazidi women, especially if those captured are
virgins. If the woman is not a virgin, the manual reads
that “her uterus must be purified”before intercourse.
An estimated 3,000 to 5,000
Yazidi women are currently being kept as sex slaves by IS. They are frequently
traded amongst the militants, while girls as young as eight are amongst those
captured.
One woman who gave a firsthand
account of the brutal nature of IS was Khalida. She spoke to RT about her barbaric
experience after being captured by the militant group.
“They took the men out
and then we heard the sound of gunfire. I was given to a Saudi Arabian and he
took my son away for 40 days. I begged him to bring my son back and said my
father would pay him money. He replied: ‘Your father will not pay up as he is
an infidel.’ When they brought my son back I saw there were marks on his back
where he had been severely beaten,” she said.
“They would not let me
feed my baby girl. They would let me breastfeed her for three minutes and then
they would take her away. They told me if I cried, they would kill both my
children,”Khalida added.
However, the fate of those
captured can be even worse, as Nadia Murad Basee Taha, who managed to escape
from the terrorist group, told the UN.
“[My captor] forced me to
serve as part of his military faction and he humiliated me every day. I implore
you to get rid of Daesh (a derogatory terms for IS) completely. I went through
this terrible suffering because of them. I have seen what they have done to
boys and girls… All those who commit these crimes of trafficking and genocide
must be brought to justice so that women and children can live in peace,” she
said.
Some locals are trying to do
their bit to help the plight of the Yazidi people. RT’s documentary
channel caught up with Abu Shuja, who is trying to free as many Yazidi
women and children as possible, despite having a $500,000 bounty from IS
hanging over his head, while 15 of his accomplices have been killed by the
terrorist organization.
“I will not give up my
work. It’s not a problem that they have my picture, if they know my name. They
would pay $5 million for my head, but I will not stop my work. I will not stop
till the last prisoner is free,” he said.
With support from his family,
who fear for his life but accept and praise what he has to do, Shuja continues
freeing Yazidis from captivity.
“We all die eventually.
Death only comes once. Dying twice would be a problem,” Shuja
says. “I’d rather die a brave, honorable death than a shameful one.”
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