US-israel Ally Erdogan trying to divide Muslims by leading sectarian rift: “Only Sunni Muslims Can Live in Mosul”
Interviewed by Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi on the Saudi Arabia-based TV station Rotana on 2 Oct., Erdogan stated that Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the Western coalition “will not allow sectarian dominance” after ISIS yerrorists are ousted.
“But the question is: Who will remain in the city after that?” he continued. “Of course, the Sunni Arabs, the Sunni Turkmen and the Sunni Kurds.” In particular, he specified that the Shiite militia,Al-Hashd Al-Shaabi, “should not be allowed to enter Mosul”.
“Mosul is for the people of Mosul,” he emphasized. “Therefore, nobody else should be allowed to enter into these areas.”
“The Turkish president made no reference to Mosul’s indigenous population of Iraqi Christians, predominantly ethnic Assyrians, who have maintained a Christian presence in the city for centuries, since the earliest days of the Church.“
Forced into a rapid exodus when ISIS (Also by other name ISIL, IS and Daesh) stormed into Mosul in June 2014, most of these displaced Iraqi Christians still live as internal refugees in the Ankawa enclave in northern Iraq’s Erbil city.
35,000 Christians lived in Mosul until the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, the city became an Al-Qaeda stronghold over the next decade.
Some 12,000 Iraqi Assyrian Christians fled the city in 2008 following a wave of murders and threats against their community. By the time ISIS terrorist overran the city in June 2014, only 3,000 Christians still resided in Mosul.
Erdogan remark is noticeable because of Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi renewed warning that Ankara’s military adventurism could waging another war in the Middle East region. Abadi expressed serious concern over the deployment of Turkish soldiers in Iraqi soil.
Today Turkish FM Mevlut Cavusoglu Claimed that Inclusion of Shiites fighters (Popular Mobilization Units) in Mosul operation will not Bring Pease.
Meanwhile, Iraq’s Defence Ministry said that US-led coalition against Daesh, Colonel John Dorrian, had said that Turkish forces in northern Iraq are not a part of coalition forces.
