BY Harut Sassounian
HUFFINGTON POST - 08/19/2015
Thousands of articles have been published worldwide in recent weeks
exposing Turkey's strategic trickery -- using the pretext of fighting
ISIS to carry out a genocidal bombing campaign against the Kurds who
have courageously countered ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
The Wall
Street Journal reported on August 12 that a senior US military official
accused Turkey of deceiving the American government by allowing its use
of Incirlik airbase to attack ISIS, as a cover for President Erdogan's
war on Kurdish fighters (PKK) in northern Iraq. So far, Turkey has
carried out 300 air strikes against the PKK, and only three against
ISIS! Erdogan's intent in punishing the Kurds is to gain the sympathy of
Turkish voters in the next parliamentary elections, enabling his party
to win an outright majority and establish an autocratic presidential
theocracy.
To conceal its deception and mislead the American
public, within days of starting its war on the Kurds, Ankara hired
Squire Patton Boggs for $32,000 a month, as a subcontractor to the
powerful lobbying firm, the Gephardt Group. Squire Patton Boggs includes
former Senators Trent Lott and John Breaux, and retired White House
official Robert Kapla. The Gephardt lobbying team for Turkey consists of
subcontractors Greenberg Traurig, Brian Forni, Lydia Borland, and
Dickstein Shapiro LLP; the latter recently added to its lobbying staff
former CIA Director Porter Goss. Other lobbying firms hired by Turkey
are: Goldin Solutions, Alpaytac, Finn Partners, Ferah Ozbek, and
Golin/Harris International. According to U.S. Justice Department
records, Turkey pays these lobbying/public relations firms around $5
million a year. Furthermore, several U.S. non-profit organizations serve
as fronts for the Turkish government to promote its interests in the
United States and take Members of Congress and journalists on
all-expense paid junkets to Turkey.
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