{"id":15407,"date":"2015-12-18T07:15:56","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T12:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15407"},"modified":"2015-12-18T07:16:25","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T12:16:25","slug":"erdogan-calls-mp-traitor-for-telling-rt-that-isis-got-chemical-weapons-via-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15407","title":{"rendered":"Erdogan calls MP \u2018traitor\u2019 for telling RT that ISIS got chemical weapons via Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"article__heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/326372-erdogan-erdem-chp-syria-sarin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Erdogan calls MP \u2018traitor\u2019 for telling RT that ISIS got chemical weapons via Turkey<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"article__cover\">\n<div class=\"media \">\n<div class=\"media__video\">\n<div class=\"mediaplayer\">\n<div id=\"js-mediaplayer-56735c32c461885d4d8b45e2_wrapper\">\n<p><object id=\"js-mediaplayer-56735c32c461885d4d8b45e2\" class=\"jwswf swfPrev-beforeswfanchor0 swfNext-afterswfanchor0\" tabindex=\"0\" data=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/static\/libs\/jwplayer\/jwplayer.flash.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" name=\"js-mediaplayer-56735c32c461885d4d8b45e2\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\"><\/object><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__cover\">\n<div class=\"media \">\n<div class=\"media__video\">\n<div class=\"mediaplayer\">\n<div id=\"js-mediaplayer-56735c32c461885d4d8b45e2_wrapper\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"js-mediaplayer-56735c32c461885d4d8b45e2_aspect\">\u00a9 Kayhan Ozer \/ Reuters; Eren Erdem \/ Facebook<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__share\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \">Turkey\u2019s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused opposition MP Eren Erdem of \u201cbetrayal.\u201d Erdem told RT that Islamic State terrorists had obtained sarin gas supplies through Turkish territory \u2013 and that Ankara did nothing despite having all the evidence.<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__text text \">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/326084-erdem-rt-interview-treason\/\">READ MORE: Turkish MP faces treason charges after telling RT ISIS used Turkey for transiting sarin<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThere is a deputy in this country, buried so deep in a pit of betrayal, and to a party that claims to be as old as the republic saying during an interview to a foreign television channel that Turkey is selling chemical weapons to terrorists,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Erdogan told a crowd in the city of Konya.<\/p>\n<p>The Turkish President also called the silence of the Republican People\u2019s Party (CHP) concerning Erdem\u2019s revelations<em>\u201ctreason.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<article class=\"MediaCard MediaCard--mediaForward customisable-border\" dir=\"ltr\" data-scribe=\"component:card\">\n<div class=\"MediaCard-media\">\n<p><a class=\"MediaCard-borderOverlay\" tabindex=\"-1\" title=\"View image on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/RT_com\/status\/676292928336195584\/photo\/1\"><span class=\"u-hiddenVisually\">View image on Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"MediaCard-widthConstraint js-cspForcedStyle\" data-style=\"max-width: 599px\">\n<div class=\"MediaCard-mediaContainer js-cspForcedStyle\" data-style=\"padding-bottom: 55.5927%\"><a class=\"MediaCard-mediaAsset NaturalImage \" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/RT_com\/status\/676292928336195584\/photo\/1\" data-scribe=\"element:photo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"NaturalImage-image\" title=\"View image on Twitter\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/CWKs1H9U8AAHebG.jpg:large\" alt=\"View image on Twitter\" width=\"599\" height=\"333\" data-srcset=\"https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Fmedia%2FCWKs1H9U8AAHebG.jpg%3Alarge 599w,https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Fmedia%2FCWKs1H9U8AAHebG.jpg 599w,https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Fmedia%2FCWKs1H9U8AAHebG.jpg%3Asmall 340w\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"Tweet h-entry js-tweetIdInfo subject expanded \" cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RT_com\/status\/676292928336195584\" data-tweet-id=\"676292928336195584\" data-scribe=\"section:subject\">\n<div class=\"Tweet-header u-cf\">\n<div class=\"Tweet-brand u-floatRight\"><span class=\"u-hiddenInNarrowEnv\"><a class=\"FollowButton follow-button profile\" title=\"Follow RT on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RT_com\" data-scribe=\"component:followbutton\">\u00a0Follow<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"Tweet-author u-textTruncate h-card p-author\" data-scribe=\"component:author\"><a class=\"Tweet-authorLink Identity u-linkBlend\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RT_com\" data-scribe=\"element:user_link\"><span class=\"Tweet-authorAvatar Identity-avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Avatar u-photo\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/675283352862089216\/GE1X4ASz_normal.png\" alt=\"\" data-scribe=\"element:avatar\" data-src-2x=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/675283352862089216\/GE1X4ASz_bigger.png\" data-src-1x=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/675283352862089216\/GE1X4ASz_normal.png\" \/><\/span><span class=\"Tweet-authorName Identity-name p-name customisable-highlight\" data-scribe=\"element:name\">RT<\/span>\u00a0<\/a><a class=\"Tweet-authorLink Identity u-linkBlend\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RT_com\" data-scribe=\"element:user_link\"><span class=\"Tweet-authorVerifiedBadge\" data-scribe=\"element:verified_badge\"><span class=\"u-hiddenVisually\">\u2714<\/span><\/span><span class=\"Tweet-authorScreenName Identity-screenName p-nickname\" data-scribe=\"element:screen_name\">@RT_com<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Tweet-body e-entry-content\" data-scribe=\"component:tweet\">\n<p class=\"Tweet-text e-entry-title\" dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">EXCLUSIVE: Sarin materials brought via Turkey &amp; mixed in Syrian ISIS camps\u2013 Turkish MP to RT <a class=\"link customisable\" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/on.rt.com\/6zep\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TmzwpqOV9H\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-expanded-url=\"http:\/\/on.rt.com\/6zep\" data-scribe=\"element:url\"><span class=\"u-hiddenVisually\">http:\/\/<\/span>on.rt.com\/6zep<span class=\"u-hiddenVisually\">\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"Tweet-metadata dateline\"><a class=\"u-linkBlend u-url customisable-highlight long-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RT_com\/status\/676292928336195584\" data-datetime=\"2015-12-14T06:49:33+0000\" data-scribe=\"element:full_timestamp\">1:49 AM &#8211; 14 Dec 2015<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"Tweet-metadata dateline\">\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Tweet-metadata dateline\">\n<p><em>\u201cWhat is this party waiting for? Why are they silent? This is treason. How can you allege this country sells sarin gas to the terrorist state of Syria which is run by the murderer Assad?\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Erdogan said, as cited by local media.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cShame on those who still keep him in the party!\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he added.<\/p>\n<p>What Erdem actually revealed in an interview with RT on Monday were the details from a criminal case opened, and then abruptly closed, by the General Prosecutor\u2019s Office in the Turkish city of Adana. His account alleges that Turkish authorities had acquired a great deal of evidence concerning sarin gas shipments to those Al-Qaeda militants in Syria that later became known globally as Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS\/ISIL), but did nothing to stop them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Tweet-metadata dateline\">\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erdogan calls MP \u2018traitor\u2019 for telling RT that ISIS got chemical weapons via Turkey &nbsp; \u00a9 Kayhan Ozer \/ Reuters; Eren Erdem \/ Facebook Turkey\u2019s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused opposition MP Eren Erdem of \u201cbetrayal.\u201d Erdem told RT that Islamic State terrorists had obtained sarin gas supplies through Turkish territory \u2013 and that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,4723,7913,11105,1239,445,446,447,8114,9101,11104,776,7748,818],"class_list":["post-15407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-al-qaeda","tag-ankara","tag-erdogan","tag-eren-erdem","tag-is","tag-isil","tag-isis","tag-islamic-state","tag-rt-news","tag-sarin-gas","tag-state-sponsored-terrorism","tag-syria","tag-treason","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15407"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15409,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15407\/revisions\/15409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}