Don’t believe the spin that Turkey supports ISIS. ISIS came out of US occupied Iraq. Not Turkey. ISIS has been backed, supplied and bankrolled by the US and UK, for the most part.
Israel has been involved too.
In fact when ISIS/L first appeared in Iraq it’s name was actually Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. When they entered Syria the group was rebranded to ISIS
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) seized the Turkish consulate in Mosul, Iraq last week, abducting 49 people, including several diplomats, guards, and others. Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu stated that Turkey would retaliate if any Turkish citizen were harmed, warning ISIS should not “test Turkey’s resolve.” Ankara also requested an emergency NATO meeting, after which Secretary-General Rasmussen said that NATO would not hesitate to defend and protect Turkey.
The Turkish government is clearly alarmed by the crisis in Iraq. ISIS has threatened Turkish national security since it emerged as a key player in Syria, particularly after it took control over the strategic town of Jarablus in January. Now, the militant group seems to have increased its control over Turkey’s bordering towns in Iraq as well
Erdogan calls ISIS a terror organization and has insisted they will fight against them- so I’m leaving out some of what I consider to be spin
Turkish officials are now reportedly holding talks with ISIS for the return of the hostages. But the problem goes beyond freeing the diplomats. On the same day the Turkish consulate was seized, ISIS also captured 28 Turkish truck drivers who were carrying diesel from Turkey to a thermal power plant in Mosul. On Tuesday June 17, ISIS abducted another 15 Turkish citizens. ISIS is not expected to relinquish these Turks any time soon.
You cannot understand ISIS without understanding al-Qaeda and the history they share, as well as the differences, there at the beginning, that would ultimately divide them. And al-Qaeda’s origin story begins with the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
In it’s second rebrand as ISIL it reappeared in US occupied Iraq
Zarqawi returned from Afghanistan, and in 1999 in Jordan formed his own group, Jamaat al-Tawhid wal-Jihad (JTWJ), or the Organization of Monotheism and Jihad. For the first few years, Zarqawi’s group was a bit player among jihadists, overshadowed by al-Qaeda. But this was the group, then little known, that would later become ISIS.
In 2003, the US led its invasion of Iraq and changed, in the world of jihadists, everything.
“Iraq was the essential incubator,” according to Fred Hof, who for part of 2012 served as the Obama administration’s special adviser for the transition in Syria.
In it’s 3rd rebrand it entered Syria as ISIS