Erdogan was nicer to ISIS than he is now to the Kurds.

[DetlefK]

https://www.efe.com/efe/english/portada/turkey-s-president-erdogan-announces-closure-of-borders-with-iraqi-kurdistan/50000260-3389300

The Turkish president on Monday said he is to close his country's border with the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan, where voters were casting ballots in an independence referendum that has been widely discouraged by regional powers.

Amid escalating tension in the region, Recep Tayyip Erdogan also threatened to sever the oil exports coming out of Iraqi Kurdistan as part of a package of sanctions being drawn up by Ankara officials.

"We will announce the steps we will take this week," Erdogan said. "We will close the border to both arrivals and departures and later on see through which channels northern Iraq's regional authorities sell their oil," he added.

"We have the valve. If we turn it off, this affair is over," he said.

The Iranian government mirrored this move and announced it had closed its land borders with Iraqi Kurdistan.

Both regional powerhouses have been vociferous opponents of the referendum in Iraq's Kurdish territory.




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Remember when ISIS sold oil by smuggling it from Syria into Turkey? It's so weird when the turkish military cannot stop hundreds of trucks from crossing their border...

But now it's about stopping kurdish oil! That's totally different!!!


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/wikileaks-turkey-isis-oil-minister-email-cache-leaks-claims-a7460736.html

WikiLeaks has released a cache of thousands of personal emails allegedly from the account of senior Turkish government minister Berat Albayrak, son-in-law of the country's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which it says shows the extent of links between Mr Albayrak and a company implicated in deals with Isis-controlled oil fields.

[TexasProgresive]

1. When has Turkey treated the Kurds well?