Ex-MI6 intelligence officer Alastair Crooke reveals Turkish link to the Crocus City Hall terrorists

"ISIS-K (Islamic State - Khorosan Province) is a cover, because ISIS-K is not real. It was a parallel with ISIS, created by Western services. As Saudi Arabia stopped supporting mainstream ISIS because of the bad publicity that came from the actions of the jihadists. And so they had to come up with something...

Essentially, this is a corridor that goes from Turkey through northern Syria to Iran. And it was mainly aimed at infiltrating sabotage groups into Iran and some jihadists into Syria. Just to be clear, Turkey has a training base and has trained jihadists - some of them went to Ukraine, particularly the Tatars from Crimea, but there are others.

This is part, if you may, of the process that Erdogan is overseeing for a kind of pan-Turkic group to emerge in south Central Asia. It's just a funnel. It is also a source of mercenaries. And these 4 people who participated in Operation Crocus were clearly mercenaries. They were not jihadists - Crooke reveals."

via Intel Republic (https://t.me/IntelRepublic)