Press Release
Turkey Participates in the Coalition's War on Syria and Iraq: by Tightening its Grip on the Oppressed by Closing the Border with Syria
(Translated)

In a surprising and unprecedented move, on Sunday 08/03/2015, Turkey announced closing the border crossing with Syria; Bab As-Salama in Kills province in both directions, and then it announced on Monday, 9/3/2015 CE of closing the Bab Al-Hawa crossing in Hatay province, also in both directions. It stated in the brief announcement that the crossings were immediately closed and indefinitely for individuals, vehicles except commercial trucks and humanitarian medical emergency cases and then we learned from credible sources that cases of humanitarian medical aid were also prevented today. People on both sides of the border were enraged and struck between the promises and the confusion caused by the workers at the crossings; shock and frustration was on everyone's faces from the people of Ash-Sham, who are suffering and have no way out to escape from the raging war against them from the coalition, the regime, ISIS and others. Especially if we know that the only two crossings exits to the people of Syria in the north are Bab As-Salama and Bab Al-Hawa, the other crossings are far and under the control of the enemies of the revolution.

This restriction comes at a time when the President of the Republic of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan stressed that Turkey will not close its doors to its guests from Syria. What enraged the people inside further that the coalition which claims to represent the revolution and the defender of its people, this coalition with all its bodies met today in Ankara with Prime Minister of Turkey Ahmet Davutoglu who welcomed the delegation and assured them that himself and his government are standing by the Syrian people against the regime of Bashar and ISIS while his troops on the border are subjecting the people of Ash-Sham to the worst torture at the crossings: cursing and hitting and pushing of women, pregnant women and children and threatening and intimidation for all who approach them. Activists have recorded cases of sniping carried out by the Turkish border guards against those who tried to cross the border into Turkey, and one of these cases is a sniper attack on a woman carrying her child.

O Muslims, O sons of the one Islamic Ummah:

These are your sons in the land of the Othmani Khilafah "Caliphate", where the great Sultan Muhammad Al-Fatih stood and shouted loudly "Allahu Akbar" until his Takbeers reached the sky and Europe was in fear from it and from the Ummah united by Allahu Akbar. Does it make sense that Al-Fatih's grandsons kill the unarmed sons of Ash-Sham and subject them to many torments while you enjoy comfort and peace in your homes?

Did Turkey's president lie to the people of Ash-Sham promising that he will not close Turkey in the face of the Muslims from Syria, and at the same time he gives his blessings to his brave army to spread on the border to snipe Muslim men and women to satisfy his masters in the White House, and Muslims in the land of the sultans are silent over his tyranny and clamour?

Does Davutoglu claim to stand by the oppressed in Ash-Sham while he unleashes his forces to create mayhem on Syria's borders and insult the dignity of Muslims there and slam the doors in the face of the sick and homeless, and stops them of passing through the two crossings, under the watchful eyes and ears of all humanitarian or the non-humanitarian organizations of foul smell, yet we do not see a movement by any of the honourable, sincere, or honest?

The Turkish government has exploited enough the Syrian issue since Erdogan's leadership to the leadership of Oglu and used it for its interests and the interests of its politicians, especially in election campaigns. They danced over the injuries and the pain of this grieving deserted nation, which the Government of Turkey intensified its stress and humiliation against with the inhuman treatment, and by closing these crossings drawn by the ominous Sykes-Picot Agreement after Britain occupied Istanbul and toppled our Islamic state, the Khilafah "Caliphate", in 1924 CE. The suffering of the people of Syria is due the rulers of Turkey abandoning them, but in the past they were one country protected by the Othmani army and defended by them from the external aggression, and today the army is stationed in its barracks as if the matter does not concern it, but it stands on the Sykes-Picot borders to protect it, even shoots at its own people whom it protected yesterday, all this is only because the Kaffir colonialists hired them to divide the united Muslim land.

Isn't there a guided man in Turkish Army from the descendants of Al-Fatih and Al-Qanooni who strikes the hands of the American agents and lifts this unjust siege and eliminates the Sykes-Picot borders and restores the glories of the Sultans and Khaleefs, who will put the "Sham Sheriff" in the high status and will not abandon them and will not allow its humiliation?

Allah (swt) gives time to the wrongdoers but does not neglect their actions, and what is happening now i.e. fighting of Allah by the rulers of Turkey, is because of the silence of the people of power and protection in Turkey over these rulers who stall the implementation of the just Islamic law which unites us as one Muslims Ummah in exclusion of other nation, with one war and one peace, one blood, one contract, and they are one against their enemy. Allah (swt) says:

(وَإِنِ اسْتَنْصَرُوكُمْ فِي الدِّينِ فَعَلَيْكُمُ النَّصْرُ)

"And if they seek help of you for the religion, then you must help, except against a people between yourselves and whom is a treaty. And Allah is Seeing of what you do." [Al-Anfal: 72]

O Muslim armies: the promise of Allah is true, Allah (swt) promised the victory of this Deen, by you or by others, but Allah's punishment for those who neglect the work for it is severe.

(وَعَدَ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مِنْكُمْ وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ لِيَسْتَخْلِفُنَّهُمْ فِي الْأَرْضِ كَمَا اسْتَخْلَفَ الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ وَلَيُمَكِّنَنَّ لَهُمْ دِينَهُمْ الَّذِي ارْتَضَى لَهُمْ وَلَيُبَدِّلَنَّهُمْ مِنْ بَعْدِ خَوْفِهِمْ أَمْنًا يَعْبُدُونَنِي لَا يُشْرِكُونَ بِي شَيْئًا وَمَنْ كَفَرَ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ فَأُولَئِكَ هُمْ الْفَاسِقُونَ)

"Allah has promised those who have believed among you and done righteous deeds that He will surely grant them succession [to authority] upon the earth just as He granted it to those before them and that He will surely establish for them [therein] their religion which He has preferred for them and that He will surely substitute for them, after their fear, security, [for] they worship Me, not associating anything with Me. But whoever disbelieves after that - then those are the defiantly disobedient." [An-Nur: 55]

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