The AKP government of Turkey has removed the Al Qaeda-affiliated
Jabhat al-Nusrah (Al Nusra Front), which it has openly encouraged and
supported in its attacks on the gains of the Kurds in Rojava, from its
list of banned ‘terror organisations’. In this way the AKP has abandoned
its support for the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), to
which it lent support for a time, and once again embraced Al Nusra.

In today’s Official Gazette is a decision of the Council of Ministers
removing Al Nusra and affiliated organisations from the ‘terror list’.

The decision to remove Al Nusra from the banned list was taken at a meeting on 16 June.

In an updated list appended to the decision there is no mention of
Al-Nusrah Front, Jabhat al-Nusrah or The Victory Front. The Islamic
State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) retains its place at the bottom of
the list, the same as in the previous list.

The AKP government has thereby severed its links with ISIS following
that organisation’s capture of the Turkish Consulate in Mosul and its
taking consulate staff hostage, and embraced Al Nusra once more.

The Al Nusra and ISIS gangs are two groups well known to the Kurds
for being opposed to their national interests. Immediately following the
Kurds’ revolution in Rojava, Al Nusra launched attacks on the region,
before being forced to retreat after suffering heavy losses at the hands
of YPG-YPJ forces.

The AKP not only provided Al Nusra with military and logistic
support, it also turned a blind eye to Al Nusra taking heavy weapons
such as tanks through the border at Serekaniye.

Following Al Nusra’s withdrawal, ISIS took their place, carrying out
many massacres of Kurdish civilians.
ISIS, too, has suffered serious
setbacks in battles with YPG-YPJ forces in the last 2 years, with its
aim of establishing an Islamic state in Rojava being thwarted.

The
Turkish state and the AKP government supported ISIS gangs in return for
attacks on the Kurds, but with developments in Mosul ISIS has turned
against its sponsor.

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