Turkey's 'Islamist' AKP number two’s confession on arms shipments to ISIL.

Turkey's 'Islamist' AKP number two’s confession on arms shipments to ISIL. (TZ).

Turkish media reported last week that the scandal over the trucks operated by the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) that were allegedly delivering arms to rebels in Syria continues to grow, as Justice and Development Party (AKP) number two Yasin Aktay accidentally let slip that the trucks were carrying weapons despite his party claiming it was aid.

Aktay is not an ordinary figure in the AKP. He is the AKP's deputy chairman responsible for foreign affairs. Thus, if says something on Syria, he must be listened to very carefully. Aktay is heard in a video saying that the MİT trucks were going to the Free Syrian Army (FSA) rather than to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

The short video shows Aktay arguing with a local man who apparently criticized the government for supporting ISIL, referring to the fact that while ISIL was attacking the Syrian Kurdish town Kobani, Erdoğan had happily exclaimed that Kobani would fall soon.

Aktay is heard in the video having a discussion with the man who accuses the government of supporting ISIL's offensive on Kobani, asking about the trucks, which he said were carrying arms to ISIL. In response, Aktay states emotionally that “they were going to the FSA, and the FSA's number one enemy is ISIS [ISIL].” On another note, expert at the AKP-controlled think tank ORSAM (Center for Middle Eastern Strategic Studies) in Ankara Oytun Orhan told The Daily Beast, “Weapons coming in from Turkey mostly go to the FSA or the Islamic Front.” Orhan argued that the Islamic Front does not belong to al-Qaeda and is fighting with ISIL.

In response to Aktay's confession, Özcan Şişman, one of the prosecutors involved in the MİT trucks investigation, who are now all in prison, said in a statement that by that date the FSA groups had sworn allegiance to ISIL and so Ankara had actually delivered weapons to the latter.

He also warned that government officials would one day be held accountable before the International Criminal Court (ICC) for having supplied arms to ISIL. Hmmm........Sometimes NATO 'Ally'.....State sponsor of terrorism. Read the full story here.

Related: YES WE LIE!

Presidential spokesman @ikalin1 denies in DC #Turkey ever sent weapons to any group in #Syria. Official court documents say otherwise.

— Abdullah Bozkurt (@abdbozkurt) May 21, 2015