Ricciardone, ex-ambassadeur américain en Turquie jusqu’en juin 2015 a déclaré à des journalistes lors d’une rencontre avec la presse que les autorités turques ont soutenu directement al-Qaïda en Syrie (JAN), ainsi que des groupes salafistes tels Ahrar al-Cham. Bon, on s’en doutait un peu, hein, mais maintenant c’est quasi-officiel.
▻http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/turkey/11093478/Turkish-government-co-operated-with-al-Qaeda-in-Syria-says-former-US-am
Turkey has directly supported al-Qaeda’s wing in Syria in defiance of the United States, the former American ambassador to Ankara has said.
The Turkish authorities thought they could work with extremist Islamist groups in the Syrian civil war and at the same time push them to become more moderate, Francis Ricciardone, who was until late June the US ambassador to Ankara, told journalists in a briefing.
That led them to work with Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda’s branch, as well as hardline Salafi Islamist groups like Ahrar al-Sham. Mr Ricciardone said that he tried to persuade the Turkish government to close its borders to the groups, but to no avail. [...] But this is the first time a senior American official - albeit one no longer in service - has said openly that Turkey was working with al-Qaeda.
Pas de dates. Mais on peut supposer qu’il est question de la constitution de la coalition Jaysh al-Fatah début 2015, notamment quand l’ex-ambassadeur déclare - de manière un peu courte et qui aurait mérité quelques explications supplémentaires :
“We ultimately had no choice but to agree to disagree,” he said. “The Turks frankly worked with groups for a period, including al Nusra, whom we finally designated as we’re not willing to work with.”
Je me demande si cette l’euphémisation nécessaire et obligée de politiques assez choquantes d’un ex-employé ("we finally designated...") et si derrière cette formule bien tournée, « to agree to disagree », il n’y a pas une simplification qui permet d’éviter la question compliquée de l’incohérence de politiques contradictoires menées par plusieurs centres de pouvoirs au sein de l’Etat US, comme nous l’a dévoilé Sy Hersh...
