{"id":22717,"date":"2016-02-16T07:08:44","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T07:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/erdogan-uses-isis-to-suppress-kurds-west-stays-silent-turkish-mp\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T22:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T22:29:12","slug":"erdogan-uses-isis-to-suppress-kurds-west-stays-silent-turkish-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/erdogan-uses-isis-to-suppress-kurds-west-stays-silent-turkish-mp\/","title":{"rendered":"Erdogan uses ISIS to suppress Kurds, West stays silent \u2013 Turkish MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been using ISIS to advance his Middle East policy and suppress the Kurds, and Ankara\u2019s elite maintains vibrant economic ties with the terror group and harbors its militants, a Turkish MP has told Russian media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cErdogan uses ISIS [Islamic State\/IS, also known as ISIS\/ISIL] against the Kurds. He can\u2019t send the Turkish Army directly to Syrian Kurdistan, but he can use ISIS as an instrument against the Kurds. He has a greater Ottoman Empire in his mind, that\u2019s his dream, while ISIS is one of the instruments [to achieve it],\u201d Selma Irmak, a Turkish MP from the Peace and Democracy Party told RIA Novosti on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/332529-erdogan-uses-isis-kurds\/\">www.rt.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been using ISIS to advance his Middle East policy and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22718,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22717\/revisions\/22718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}