Former NATO Commander Says Turkey Supports Terrorism.

Washington, Nov 26 (Prensa Latina) Former NATO commander Wesley Clark said that Turkey supports the terrorist Islamic states, according to CNN.

Speaking on television on Wednesday the former soldier said that Islamic extremists serve the interests of the authorities in Ankara.

The retired general statement entered in the context of the Turkish jet that shot down a Russian plane taking part in bombing missions against jihadist group in northern Syria.

Asked whether he agreed with Russian President Vladimir Putin that Turkey helped the EI, Clark said there was always the idea that the Turkish support that terrorist group in some way, including in recruiting men and by buying stolen oil to Syria.

The extremist group is somehow serving the interests of Turkey, and even of Saudi Arabia, as it represents a threat to an eventual axis Iran-Iraq-Syria-Lebanon, because it is believed that can isolate the Turks and remove the Saudis from the game, he said.

This is a power struggle for the future of the Middle East, concluded Clark, for whom it is not a secret the great interests behind the large oil and gas reserves in the region that can be moved in the future through pipelines by Syrian territory, something that many analysts point as one of the backgrounds of the crisis in the region.

According to Western media Ankara acquired nearly 800 million dollars in oil obtained by jihadists in Syria and became routine entry of trucks loaded with this fuel to Turkish soil, something possible with the complicity of the authorities of that country.

Moreover, the New Eastern Outlook publication, reported that Necmettin Bilal Erdogan, the son of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is in the business of oil smuggled from Iraq and Syria by terrorists, which allowed the extremist organization converting million fuel barrels million to the coffers jihadists.

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