Maybe President Assad didn't "Gas his own people" after all? [View all]
Despite the West's decision to blame Syria's government for the notorious sarin gas attack on a suburb of Damascus in 2013, it may have been entirely different regional actors who were behind that crime against humanity. There is disturbing information coming out of Turkey which suggests that Turkish sources supplied precursor chemicals to buyers from ISIS (later known as Islamic State or Daesh). According to Eren Erdem, a member of the Turkish Parliament, the hope was a chemical weapon attack on civilians would cause so much public uproar that the West would act to overthrow Syria's government. This outspoken Turkish politician has since been arrested for his accusations and charged with treason for publicly calling for an investigation.
A U.N. chemical weapons expert holds a plastic bag containing samples from the site of an alleged chemical weapons attack in Damascus, August 29, 2013 (Reuters)
Turkish ‘traitor’ MP’s revelations on sarin transfers must be probed, reported to UNSC
Russia has expressed hope that a joint OPCW-UN investigation of deadly sarin attacks in Syria will not ignore reports from a Turkish MP, who faces charges of treason for exposing Ankara’s alleged role in hiding ISIS-bound shipments of gas precursors. The so-called Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) consolidated the efforts of the UN and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) with a mandate to identify people involved in the use of chemicals weapons in Syria under the Security Council resolution 2118.
“This specialized mechanism should thoroughly investigate the information provided by the Turkish parliamentarian in accordance with its mandate, and report back to the UN Security Council,” Ministry’s spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement.
The parliamentarian in question – Eren Erdem of the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) – was accused of “betrayal” by Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, after telling the media that the Islamic State terrorists in Syria received all necessary materials to produce deadly sarin gas via Turkey.
Erdem revived concerns regarding a possible cover-up following the sudden termination of a local criminal case in Adana into the illegal shipments. Furthermore, Erdem argued that the West purposefully blamed the government of Bashar Assad for the August 2013 chemical attack in Ghouta that was used as part of the pretext to make US military intervention in Syria possible.
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Read more at: https://www.rt.com/news/327122-syria-sarin-isis-investigation/
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