Some New Revelations About The Capture of Turkish Diplomats in Mosul
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A recording was recently released shows parts of a hearing conducted by an Iraqi parliamentary committee, chaired by Iraqi MP Hakim Al-Zamily, to investigate the fall of Mosul. The witness is the director of Iraqi Intelligence Office in Mosul, who served for four years in the city until June 10, 2014, when the Mosul was taken by ISIL. His testimony, which is based on his personal observations and the gathered intelligence by his office, may shed some light on the circumstances of this unusual case of diplomatic security failure.
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“In the last five years, setting aside the [Iraqi] state, Turkey invited all Sunni tribes in Mosul to Turkey. Turkey hosted them. They came in, stayed, ate, and made plans. On 11 June 2014, then all gave allegiance to Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi.”
Indeed, we do not need to speculate about the negative Turkish role in Iraq when we can take it clearly articulated from the horse’s mouth. In the same statement to the Turkish Parliament Mr. Öztürk Yılmaz said the following:
“On the one hand we say about our relations with Baghdad: ‘We support the territorial integrity of [Iraq], we support its independence.’ But we are doing all kinds of things that would violate the independence and territorial integrity. Is this something that defines our neighborhood policy?”