December 01, 2015

Truth on the Tracks with Brandon Turbeville - 11/30/2015

Brandon discusses the Syrian crisis, Turkish involvement in the support of ISIS, increased world tensions, Russia's Syria involvement, and rising tensions in Ukraine.


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1,250 trucks carrying Turkish exports blocked at Russian border: Shipping association

Some 1,250 trucks transferring Turkish goods have been blocked from entering Russia and are stranded at border posts, a Turkish shipping association says.
"Russia has not given permission to Turkish trucks for entry or transit passage for the past four days," Fatih Sener, the managing director of Turkey's International Shippers Association (UND), told Reuters on Monday.
"Apart from the trucks waiting at the border posts, it doesn't allow those that have entered the country... to discharge their load at the customs. This is the case for Romanian, Bulgarian, Kazakh and Moldovan trucks carrying Turkish goods," Sener said.
Tensions have been running high between Ankara and Moscow following the recent shooting down of a Russian bomber by a Turkish warplane.
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URGENT: US-Turkey Edging Up to Syrian Border

In the most open admission yet that NATO-member Turkey has been allowing a torrent of supplies, weapons, fighters, and equipment to flow across its borders with impunity and into the hands of the self-proclaimed "Islamic State" (ISIS), the US has urged Ankara to seal the remaining 100 km border region yet to be closed by Syrian and Kurdish forces.
Although some may find US calls for the border to be secured from the Turkish side welcomed, in reality, the summation of support for ISIS and other terrorist groups operating in Syria have long been crossing Turkey's borders, with Ankara and Washington's full knowledge and with Ankara and Washington having orchestrated the immense multi-year logistical operation themselves.
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