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Here is a great reply to Turkish dailies which at the weekend actually had the audacity to accuse Greece of operating terrorist training camps in areas such as Lavrio. These dailies even left it to be understood that the suicide bomber, responsible for a tragic terrorist attack at the US Embassy in Constantinople last week entered Turkey through Greece -implying of course that this criminal "trained at a Kurdish terrorist camp in Lavrion"! We here at HellasFrappe -who have had it up to here with all these lies- decided to follow the story everyday since then because we wanted to see why Turkey would make such a wacky accusation.
Reference - PROVOCATION - Gov't Slams Turkish Reports Claiming Greece Is Training Terrorists In Lavrio - http://hellasfrappe.blogspot.com/2013/02/provocation-govt-slams-turkish-reports.html
On Monday we discovered that Turkey knew that the terrorist attack ahead of time. Reports said that Turkish authorities knew in advance about the attack but didn’t have enough information to prevent it.
Turkey’s national police agency was in possession of intelligence regarding a possible terrorist attack by the Marxist group Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C), but failed to prevent the suicide bomb blast at US Embassy in Ankara last Friday, according to an Israeli police source on Monday. Source Albany Tribune
Also on Monday, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused European countries, particularly Germany and France, of letting "terrorists" roam freely across Europe. (Lol... Good one... when everyone knows that they are secretly entering Europe through Turkey!) - Reference - The Local
And On Wednesday we discovered that on the same day when the US Embassy in Ankara was attacked the Turkish daily news had an exclusive front-page report with the headline: “Bin Laden’s son-in-law arrested in Ankara.” According to this exclusive report on Feb. 1 by Tolga Sardan, the CIA had tipped off the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MIT) that Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law, Suleiman Abu Gheith, had entered Turkey with a forged passport, and that the Turkish security forces have recently arrested him at a hotel in Ankara’s Cankaya district, where Turkey’s presidential palace, the US ambassador’s residential compound, and a number of embassies are also located.
Of course there is no link between these two incidents - aside from an interesting timing that the two came on the same day. The Revolutionary People’s Liberation Army (DHKP-C) claimed responsibility on Saturday for the attack to the US Embassy, which left Mustafa Akarsu, a 47-year-old security guard, dead, and Didem Tuncay, a well-known Turkish diplomatic correspondent, critically injured.
In a written statement, next to the picture of Ecevit Sanli, the suicide bomber, who's also dead, DHKP-C said, “Murderer America! You will not run away from people’s rage.” And it accused the United States of using Turkey as its “slave. Founded in 1978 with a fellow named Dursun Karatas, this secular party aligned with Marxist-Leninist ideology, quite out of step with the jihadi movement, has been anti-imperialist, anti-American and anti-NATO from the very beginning. Until today, it was never publicly framed as a “pro-Assad” group — even when their sense of common enemy in the United States led them to limited cooperation at times. Since the late 1980s, the group has targeted primarily current and retired Turkish security and military officials. It began a new campaign against foreign interests in 1990, which included attacks against U.S. military and diplomatic personnel and facilities. During the Gulf War, DHKP-C assassinated two American military personnel, wounded an American Air Force officer and conducted more than 20 bombings against U.S. and NATO military, commercial and cultural facilities.
Here is a small part of the report that was featured on Al-monitor
The former spokesman of the world’s most deadly terror network reportedly escaped Afghanistan following the 9/11 attacks in 2001 and settled in a camp in Iran. The Milliyet story said Abu Gheith appeared before a Turkish judge, but he was “let free as he did not commit any crime in Turkey except entering the country with a forged passport. Despite his release though, he was returned to the Turkish security forces for deportation. Although the U.S. asked that he be extradited to them, Turkish authorities have sent him back to Iran based on technical legal procedures.”
Considering Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s complains that the West is taking sides with PKK terrorists and failing to extradite them back to Turkey like allies should do, this report had the potential to turn the coin to the other side, and bring an international spotlight into Turkey’s terrorism laws as well as its legal definition of a “terrorist,” and the country’s responsibilities for the larger safety and security of our world.
In this context, it’s certainly convenient that it’s not an al-Qaeda franchise that conducted the attack to the U.S. Embassy on Feb.1. Turkey could actually have found itself in a very difficult situation if this were to be somehow related to al-Qaeda, and that the country’s image might significantly be compromised.
Turkish security forces took three suspects into custody Saturday on allegation that they helped provide Sanli the forged identification, but they were all let go by mid-Sunday because of lack of evidence tying them to any “terror network.” That said, it’s still too early to reach conclusive judgments as to why DHKP-C attacked the U.S. Embassy now — after a long break since they last targeted America in Turkey.
We thought this was a nice reply to the Turkish dailies who are always quick to spread false propaganda against Greece to the Turkish people.
Editor's Note - We are still following the story and will keep you guys up-to-date if anything develops.
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