{"id":15900,"date":"2016-01-02T16:57:33","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T21:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15900"},"modified":"2016-01-02T16:57:33","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T21:57:33","slug":"isis-oil-trucks-cross-into-turkey-every-day-captured-terrorist-admits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15900","title":{"rendered":"ISIS oil trucks cross into Turkey every day, captured terrorist admits"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A captured Islamic State militant who spoke to Sputnik news agency has bolstered claims that Turkey is involved in illegal oil deals with the jihadist group up to the hilt.<\/div>\n
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24-year-old Mahmud Ghazi Tatar says he joined Islamic State (IS, previously ISIS\/ISIL) from the Turkish city of Adiyaman. Together with other recruits, he was transported over the border into Syria where he received terrorist training.<\/p>\n

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Having taken part in the civil war in Syria, he was captured by Kurdish forces last June and is now imprisoned.<\/p>\n

RT obtained interview footage with the captive from Sputnik news agency. In it, the former IS fighter reveals details about Turkey’s alleged oil links to the terror group.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the training camp in May 2015, our commander told us that the group sells fuel to Turkey. That income covers Islamic State’s costs. The oil trucks crossing into Turkey every day carry crude oil, as well as petrol,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Tatar said, adding that the Islamic group has\u00a0\u201cenough oil to last them a long time.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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URGENT: Russian intel spots 12,000 oil tankers & trucks on Turkey-Iraq\u00a0border- General Staff http:\/\/<\/span>on.rt.com\/70d3\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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In the words of Tatar\u2019s commander, the oil is being sold via several businessmen and traders, although their names were not disclosed.<\/p>\n

\u201cISIL also receives lots of supplies from Turkey and Arab countries,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the captured militant said.<\/p>\n

Turkey strongly denies that it has links to the terrorists.<\/p>\n

ISIS\u2019s black market oil trade has come under scrutiny from the international community amid turbulent oil prices, which have fallen to half their previous level in 2015.<\/p>\n

ISIL oil trade: step by step<\/strong><\/p>\n

Crude oil extracted at Syria\u2019s Deir ez-Zor and Iraq\u2019s Qayyara oil fields, which remain under under Islamic State control, is being sold for as little as $25 per barrel to smugglers, independent Syrian and Iraqi traders who transport oil using their own trucks.<\/p>\n

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ISIS oil trucks cross into Turkey every day, captured terrorist admits A captured Islamic State militant who spoke to Sputnik news agency has bolstered claims that Turkey is involved in illegal oil deals with the jihadist group up to the hilt. TrendsIslamic State 24-year-old Mahmud Ghazi Tatar says he joined Islamic State (IS, previously ISIS\/ISIL) […]<\/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":[184,1239,446,447,474,588,8114,776,818],"class_list":["post-15900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-crude-oil","tag-is","tag-isis","tag-islamic-state","tag-kurds","tag-oil","tag-rt-news","tag-syria","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15900","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=15900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15901,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15900\/revisions\/15901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}