Allegations of ISIL route between 'Islamist' Turkey and Syria raised in Turkish Parliament. (Bugun).
Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Deputy Levent Gök held a press conference in Parliament on Friday where he gave the podium to citizen Alaaddin Ercan, a resident of Ankara’s Sincan neighborhood, who claims the borders between Turkey and Syria are as open as ever and that there is an active route between Turkey and Syria where countless citizens are joining up with ISIL.
Noting that 21 members of his family had gone and joined ISIL, with five already dead, Ercan claimed that there were bus lines that openly take people back and forth between Turkey and ISIL. He added that the state had to assign him a security detail because of death threats levelled against him and his family.
“Everyone from children to adults stay up until morning keeping watch,” he said.
Ercan claimed that they were actively “brainwashing” the residents of Sincan towards radicalism, “But nobody even cares.
There is a price on my head, my own siblings are threatening to kill me.” He added that at the moment both his brothers and his sister-in-law were a part of ISIL, that they had been introduced to radicalism 8 years ago as members of Hizbul Tahrir and began migrating to Syria, first one by one then as entire families.
He added that there were many families going through the same problems in the area, “but they’re all too afraid to speak up,” criticizing the Directorate of Religious Affairs for not issuing a fatwa against ISIL.
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