Operation Featherweight: Month 19, Week 4, Day 3.

Certainly since August 2015 Turkey has been desperate to invade northern Syria. Specifically a roughly 100km (60 mile) wide corridor stretching from the Syrian town of Azaz in the west to the Euphrates River in the east.

The purpose of this invasion is to preserve the supply lines of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and associated groups. These have recently been put under extreme pressure by the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) to the south, the Kurdish Peoples Protection Units (YPG) to the west and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF/QSD) to the east.

Although this invasion plan has seen numerous starts and false starts matters seemed to come to a head for Turkey on February 11th (11/2/16) when the YPG succeeded in liberating the Menagh Air Base. This sits roughly 7km (4 miles) south of Azaz just inside the western boundary of what has become known as "Erdogan's Pocket."

In response on Saturday (13/2/16) Turkey started shelling YPG positions inside of Syria.

The primary objective of this was to prevent the YPG from liberating a road that links the towns of Azaz and Tel Rifat. Both of these towns were under the occupation of Al Qaeda's affiliate in Syria - the Al Nusra Front (ANF). Despite Turkey's shelling the YPG did succeed in liberating both the road and and the town of Tel Rifat. Azaz remains under Al Qaeda control and Turkey's shelling of the YPG continues.

On Tuesday (16/2/16) the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) met to discuss Turkey's shelling in closed session. It unanimously concluded that Turkey's actions constitute a violation of international law and urged it to cease and desist.

In response to the UNSC meeting on Wednesday (17/2/16) Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç announced that Turkey still intends to invade Syria. Turkish President/Prime Minister/Emperor Recep Tayyip Erdogan convened a National Security Council (NSC) meeting for 18:00 (local)/16:00 (GMT) in Turkey's capital Ankara.

While that National Security Council meeting was taking place a roadside bomb tore through a convoy of buses carrying Turkish troops in Ankara. So far 28 people have been reported killed and a further 61 injured.

Whilst Turkey has been excitedly been discussing its plans to invade Syria everyone else has been discussing how to manage the constant stream of terrorist propaganda being pumped out by Turkey. In my own particular fashion I raised the restrictions on terrorist propaganda Britain enforced between 1988 and 1994. That is of course an example of how not to do it.

Sometimes referred to as; "The Voice Ban" these restrictions were introduced into the 1988 Ballygawley Bus Bombing. Here a roadside bomb set by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) tore through a bus carrying 36 British soldiers as the were returning to base from holiday. 8 of the soldiers were killed making it the single largest loss of British lives behind the Narrow Water Ambush in which 18 soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb.

Yesterday's Ankara bombing is of course a direct re-creation of the Ballygawley Bus Bombing. The objective of the attack seems to be threefold;

Firstly it was intended to galvanise the Turkish people into support for Turkey's planned invasion of Syria to "Eliminate the threat of Kurdish Terror!"

Secondly it was intended to force the UNSC to designate the YPG as a terrorist organisation and therefore give permission for Turkey's invasion of Syria. To this end the Turkish Foreign Ministry has today summoned the Ambassadors of the five permanent members of the UNSC to show them all the evidence it's already managed to gather proving the YPG carried out the Ankara bombing. 

Thirdly it seems to be an attack on me personally. The intention being to convince the international community that my recent sharing of Irish Republic Army (IRA) drinking songs contained coded messages instructing the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to carry out the attack. Therefore I'm a terrorist so must be arrested and silenced.

The problem with that of course is that as the PKK well know they were allied with the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA). The PIRA killed more members of the INLA then the British ever did. If there were messages hidden in those videos lets just say that the people who need to know are well aware of the success that is certain to come to Chiwetel Ejiofor at the upcoming Oscars. Despite the protests.

It seems though that the Ankara bombing was not the only terrorist outrage to befall the Turks yesterday.

Later that evening at around 21:30 an explosion struck the basement of a Turkish cultural centre in the Swedish capital Stockholm. There were no injuries. Along with the unknown individual who shot a Kurdish protester in Stockholm on Sunday (14/2/16) that cultural centre is closely linked to the Turkish Embassy in Sweden. As such any investigation will also be closely linked to the Turkish Embassy in Sweden.

In early May 2016 Sweden will be hosting the Eurovision Song Contest. They secured this dubious honour by winning the 2015 contest with the song "Heroes" by "Måns Zelmerlöw" which praised attempts to turn Ukraine into ISIL's Shamali Province. I gather that this year the rules have been changed so we can clearly see which points have been awarded by expert juries and which points have been awarded by less well informed members of the public.

In the very early hours of Sunday (14/2/16) morning all the members of a British band called "Viola Beach" were killed in a car accident in Stockholm. Already smothered with false awards and fake praise Viola Beach are exactly the type of act the UK likes to dump on Eurovision in an effort to convince everyone they're taking it seriously. As such it seems to be the type of story that is absolutely littered with coded references. I gather Turkish Energy Minister Berat Albayrak - Erdogan's son-in-law - is particularly sensitive to any talk of oil tankers.

The fact that it was the basement of the building that was bombed is a specific reference to a particularly brutal incident in Turkey's ongoing brutal campaign in the Kurdish south-east which has been going on for the past 6 months with the full permission of US President Barack Obama. 

On January 25th (25/1/16) Turkish tanks surrounded an entire district in the city of Cizre, Sirnak Province and opened fire forcing the residents to seek shelter in basements. Despite repeated calls for the civilians to be allowed to leave to seek food and medical attention Turkish tanks continued to shell the district for the next two weeks. On February 8th (8/2/16) they set fire to the district.

Turkey claims that just 27 PKK terrorists were killed in the onslaught. However despite Turkish attempts to block an investigation the confirmed death toll now stands at 145 and is expected to rise as more charred corpses are recovered.

Considering how we queue up to condemn the Syrian government for allowing areas like Deir ez-Zour to be besieged by ISIL while invoking memories of the 1994 Siege of Sarajevo you would think the international community - particularly the European Union (EU) - would literally be up in arms over the Cizre Massacre.

This morning it seems Turkey has suffered yet another terrorist outrage. 7 soldiers were killed when a convoy they were travelling was struck by a roadside bomb near the city Diyarbakir. Along with Cizre Diyarbakir is located in the Turkey's south-eastern Kurdish region.

The main difference between yesterday's Ankara Bus Bombing and the 1988 Ballygawley Bus Bombing is location.

The Ankara bombing occurred in the so-called "Security Sector" of Turkey's capital city. This is similar to Horse Guards Parade in London, UK or the area around the Capitol Building and the White House in Washington D.C, US. The Ballygawley Bus Bombing occurred on a quiet country road in County Tyrone which is right on the border with the Republic of Ireland. Even by British soldiers these areas were affectionately referred to as; "Bandit Country."

Diyarbakir is in Turkey's equivalent of Bandit Country.

Like Cizre Diyarbakir has long been on the receiving end of an onslaught by the Turkish military. Knowing full well what they are doing the Turkish government is obviously concerned that its behaviour there will trigger a backlash from the EU in particular. As such Diyarbakir has frequently featured in negotiations between Turkey and the EU.

For example on January 19th (19/1/16) - on the eve of a Turkish visit to Germany - it was announced that Turkey was ending its operation in Diyarbakir. They declared they just had to remove a few barricades and ditches. With Turkey clearly not ending its Diyarbakir operation and never having any intention to do so this was interpreted as a threat to Germany and the EU; Complain about the Diyarbakir operation and Turkey will remove the barricades and ditches it has erected in an attempt to convince the world it has sealed its border to ISIL.

Immediately after the YPG had liberated Menagh Air Base on February 11th (11/2/16) Turkey again announced that its Diyarbakir operation had ended in transparent attempt to gain EU support for its invasion plan. Although the Diyarbakir operation again has very clearly not ended today's bombing seems to send the message; "Look what happens when you force us to end the Diyarbakir operation!"

As for who carried out these recent terrorist atrocities in Turkey the first suspect it always the Turkish Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). Their paramilitary wing is known as; "The Grey Wolves." It is this organisation that Alparlsan Celik is a member of. It is also the organisation that has today sent a reported 500 fighters to reinforce Al Qaeda positions in Azaz.

However viewing it as a threat to his own ambitions over recent years Erdogan's Justice & Development Party (AKP) have been cracking down on the MHP through numerous "Parallel State" operations. The purpose of ending the ceasefire with the PKK in response to the July 20th 2015 (20/7/15) Suruc bombing was of course to trick the MHP into an alliance with the AKP which has Erdogan at its head.

As as a result the recent terror attacks all seem to be the work of MHP hands but with an AKP brain.

17:15 on 18/2/16 (UK date).