Operation Featherweight: Month 19, Week 4, Day 5.

On Wednesday (17/2/16) and Thursday (18/2/16) Turkey carried out several terrorist bombings.

One of these occurred in Stockholm, Sweden and resulted in no casualties. Another occurred just outside the city Diyarbakir in Turkey's predominately Kurdish south-east. Six Turkish soldiers were killed. The most significant bombing though occurred on Wednesday (17/2/16) evening when a convoy of Turkish military vehicles was blown up in the capital Ankara killing 26. Predominately soldiers.

Less then 24 hours after the Ankara bombing the Turkish government summoned the Ambassadors of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). The purpose of this meeting was to present those Ambassadors with the 'evidence' Turkey had gathered linking the Ankara bombing to the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) which Turkey is currently attacking in defence of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and associated groups.

I gather then key exhibit Turkey presented to support its claim was a severed hand it claims had been recovered from the scene. Turkish fingerprint analysis identified that hand as belonging to a Salih Necar - a Syrian national from the Kurdish Syrian town of Amuda which sits roughly 25km (15 miles) west of the Turkey/Syria border city of Qamishli. It is alleged that Necar had been fingerprinted when he crossed into Turkey as a refugee.

Obviously it is not my place to tell the Turkish authorities what their tells are. However it is fair to assume that this claim of the YPG carrying out the Ankara bombing is substantially lacking in credibility.

On Friday (19/2/16) the UK publicly called out Turkey on its false accusations against the YPG. This took the form of a severed foot being found in a public park in the British city of Bath. If you are familiar with my case file you will immediately understand the significance of Bath.

It appears that this foot had literally been PLANTED in a flowerbed as if someone was hoping a whole new person would grow. The message quite simply being that if Turkey doesn't have a problem with killing 26 of its own soldiers on the streets of its capital simply chopping off someone's hand as part of the effort is unlikely to cause them any moral problems.

So later in the day Turkey changed its tune. This involved issuing as statement claiming responsibility for the Ankara bombing on behalf of the "Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK).

TAK were formed in 2003/4 by the Turkish Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). Their purpose was to prevent the Justice & Development Party (AKP) forming an alliance with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) against the MHP. The founder of the AKP - Recep Tayyip Erdogan - was of course elected Prime Minister in 2002 but was banned from taking up office until 2003. 

Although their official acronym is AKP supporters of the AKP like to refer to the party simple as; "AK" which is the Turkish word for clean/honest.

Ironically now that the AKP have ended peace negotiations with the PKK TAK are now being used to prop up Erdogan. For example they were cited as the cause of the December 23rd 2015 (23/12/15) bombing of an aircraft belonging to "Pegasus Airlines" at Istanbul Airport in which one person was killed. That attack seemed intended to promote discussion about the Arab military alliance that Saudi Arabia keeps threatening to form which has been codenamed; "Pegasus."

In their current incarnation TAK serve as a metaphor for several Turkish backed insurgent groups currently operating in Syria. The first of these is the "Falcons of Mount Zawiya" group. Those falcons were the last group to be provided with training and equipment under the US "Train & Equip" program before they defected to Al Nusra Front (ANF) - Al Qaeda's affiliate in Syria - and Train & Equip was shut down in September 2015.

The fact that the US has terminated Train & Equip raises the question of why Turkey is continuing to support two other insurgent groups in Syria - "The Falcons of the Levant Brigade" and "The Levant Front." These two groups are currently fighting alongside ISIL and the ANF within the roughly 100km (60 mile) wide stretch of northern Syria known as "Erdogan's Pocket" to prevent the YPG liberating that area from the west and the Syrian Democratic Forces (ADF/QSD) liberating it from the east.

The crucial detail in TAK's claim of responsibility for the Ankara bombing was that it identified a different person as the bomber. Where the Turkish government had identified Salih Necar as the bomber the TAK statement identified Zinar Raperin - a Turkish national from the city of Van.

This obviously left the international community with a choice; They could either reject the TAK statement or join the UK in accusing the Turkish government of lying in its attempts to blame the YPG.

The reason why Turkey was getting so jittery was that yesterday (19/2/16) Russia started discussions at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on a statement recognising Syria as a sovereign state and calling for - unnamed parties - to stop shelling it. Such a statement would of course prevent the YPG from declaring a Kurdish state within Syria thus removing Turkey's main, stated objection to the YPG.

You would not think that this would be a difficult sentiment for the UNSC to support. After all the preamble of the United Nations (UN) Charter recognises all member nations as sovereign states. In order to become a member of the the UN nations must ratify the UN Charter into law.

As such the UNSC was only being asked to confirm that they are members of the UN. As they were being asked this in the UN Headquarters as accredited members of the UN you wouldn't think that would be too much of a problem.

If they felt they were unable to that the UNSC could at least have kept the pressure up on Turkey not to escalate further by making clear that the question remained on the table.

Unfortunately the US, France and the UK found themselves unable to differentiate between whatever internal problems there may be in Syria and the foreign invasion of Syria by nations such as Turkey. As such they immediately invoked that 1977 nihilist anthem by the "Sex Pistols" and declared the discussion to have "No Future."

This is of course the standard response those nations give when being asked about the Syrian government. Even when the question is; "Can the Syrian people choose the Syrian government?"

On plus side the US, France and the UK have now formally acknowledged that there is no internal dispute within Syria. Merely a foreign invasion of Syria.

However by refusing to condemn that invasion of Syria the UNSC has given Turkey the greenlight to deploy whatever resources it likes to seize the territory once known as Syria and make it part of Turkey. Just yesterday Turkey threatened to hand Stinger anti-aircraft missiles to terror groups in Syria by firing them against YPG ground positions.

Although it's clear that western nations care nothing for the safety of their citizens there are only so many attacks Russia can be forced to absorb before words have to become deeds.

This of course is what was actually being discussed at last night's European Union (EU) Summit.

The UK's big mistake was to try and link its membership of the EU to the ongoing fight against ISIL and associated groups. Apart from the severed foot they did this with a natural gas explosion in Haxby, Yorkshire. This was to highlight ISIL and associated groups routine use of chemical weapons such as Sulphur Mustard gas.

There was also the murder of an Imam in Rochdale, Greater Manchester. If we are going to continue to permit ISIL and associated groups to present themselves as Muslims then it is going to provoke a massive Islamaphobic backlash. Western governments will have to deal with that as well as the massively increased terror threat.

As a result this long awaited EU Summit meal was delayed so it coincided with the closed UNSC session.

The Baltic states and Poland then delayed UK Prime Minister Cameron's big speech until they had received assurances that the main aim of the EU is no longer as a political union of like-minded states. Nor is it an economic union. Instead it is simply a mechanism through which to wage war against Russia.

So you'll excuse me if I'm not convinced by Cameron's claim that the UK taxpayer won't be constantly bailing out an ever expanding group of weak economies.


15:45 on 20/2/16 (UK date).