German TV channel films ISIL slave trade in 'Islamist' Turkey.

German TV channel films ISIL slave trade in 'Islamist' Turkey. (TZ).

German television station ARD has produced footage documenting the slave trade being conducted by the radical terrorist group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) through a liaison office in Turkey.

Two correspondents from the TV channel filmed a Yazidi family buying their relatives to save them from ISIL and spoke to witnesses. The Yazidi family contacted a liaison office of ISIL in Turkey through a Kurdish man named Abu Mital, who works as an intermediary for ISIL, in order to purchase a mother, her three children and an 11-year-old boy from ISIL and return them to their family.

Speaking to ARD, Mital said that money transfers in the sale of slaves by ISIL are made through its liaison offices in Turkey. He said he has paid more than $2.5 million to ISIL over the past year for 250 Yazidi women and children who have been purchased by their families. Mital also said that ISIL gives numbers to the female and child slaves and posts their photographs on the Internet for sale.

In a related development, Gaziantep Bar Association President Bektaş Şarklı has filed a criminal complaint regarding the claims about whether ISIL has a liaison office in Gaziantep and its involvement in the sale of Yazidi women and children. Şarklı requested that an investigation be launched into the police force and the National Intelligence Organization (MİT), which he accused of negligence. He filed the criminal complaint at the Gaziantep Chief Public Prosecutor's Office.

Ankara categorically denies allegations that it turns a blind eye to ISIL's activities across the Syrian border. Read the ful story here.

ISIS member admits existence and practice of slave girls in ISIS Caliphate

Twitter exchange between a British Muslim woman in ISIS & her jihadi 'brother'. pic.twitter.com/qHVhf2MGwd via @CEMB_forum

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Obama’s slave trade photo op a ‘scam,’ historians call it 'Garbage' dump.

Obama’s slave trade photo op a ‘scam,’ historians call it 'Garbage' dump.HT: BizPacReview.

Historians claim Obama's 'Door of No Return' which he visited to highlight the evils of slavery is a 'scam' and was actually used as a garbage dump

When President Barack Obama visited the 'Door of No Return' on a Senegalese island on Thursday, he believed he was looking at where Africans were shipped across the Atlantic into slavery. But not all may be as it first seemed. Historians claim that the entrance of Slave House on Goree Island where Obama posed for a photo opportunity was most likely only used for disposing of garbage.

As reported by the Telegraph, Professor Ralph Austen of the University of Chicago said: 'There are literally no historians who believe the Slave House is what they're claiming it to be, or that believe Goree was statistically significant in terms of the slave trade,'

According to the Daily Mail, Philip Curtin an emeritus professor of history at Johns Hopkins University and a prolific author of books on the Atlantic slave trade, was one of the first to question the authenticity of the Slave House back in the 1990s.

Curtain said in an online discussion forum that he believed the “hoax” began when the site became a museum and the first curator, Joseph Ndiaye, told dramatic stories of the millions who passed through and the horrors they endured.

When Curtin visited in 1992, Ndiaye told of 40 million who would become slaves, which Curtin said was four times the total number of slaves ultimately exported from Africa.

“A lot of people have been taken in by the Goree scam,” Curtin wrote. “Though Goree is a picturesque place, it was marginal to the slave trade.”

Pictures have circulated showing Obama, standing with Michelle, in the infamous doorway, but the Telegraph reported another historian’s analysis of the site:

Despite the claims that millions of slaves passed through the door, its most likely use is now thought to have been for disposing of rubbish. Likewise, the waters it overlooks are too rocky and shallow for a slave ship to have used it as a loading bay.

“There are literally no historians who believe the Slave House is what they’re claiming it to be, or that believe Goree was statistically significant in terms of the slave trade,” said Ralph Austen, a professor at the University of Chicago who has researched the subject.

The Daily Mail said the debate over the site’s historical value is “emotionally charged and politically treacherous” in Senegal. Numerous high-profile tourists are attracted to the island museum, and past visitors have included Nelson Mandela, Pope John Paul II and former U.S presidents Bill Clinton and George W Bush.Read and see the full story here, more here.