(Via Stars and Stripes) For the wife of the gunman accused of killing four people at a kosher supermarket in Paris 10 days ago, the escape from questioning about complicity in the Charlie Hebdo terror attacks was relatively easy.
Once Hayat Boumeddiene, 26, got to Turkey, she followed the path of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of other European jihadi volunteers before her — into the self-declared Islamic State.
Aided by smugglers in the Turkish border town of Akcakale, and several companions, she walked through a disused border crossing on Jan. 8 and into the Syrian town of Tal Abyad, which has been an Islamic State stronghold for months.
She would have passed a guard shack on the old road between Alcakale and Tal Abyad, but if Turkish border guards took any notice, they made no effort to stop her, according to a Turkish security official, who spoke anonymously because speaking on the record was not allowed.[…]

Turkey is widely viewed as the jihadi highway to Syria. Germany’s domestic intelligence chief said last week that of the 550 people who left Germany to volunteer for the Islamic State, “well over 90 percent” traveled to Syria via Turkey. “We are asking Turkey, we demand that Turkey stop travel via Turkish sovereign territory in the direction of Syria,” Hans-Georg Meissen, Germany’s domestic intelligence chief told a TV interviewer on Jan. 12.
Turkish officials reject responsibility and say they have been made into a scapegoat. Responding to Meissen’s demand, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said closing the border would have sealed it to refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war as well.  (read more)


It’s not a surprise that Turkey represents the primary toll plaza on the Jihadi Highway, President Recep Erdogan views ISIS as his personal up and coming army.   Erdogan wants another empire, an Erdogan Empire.
He’s only inches away from going full blown Islamist Dictator.
The next president will have to construct several strategic global policy initiatives to rebuild the influence of freedom principles, and protect U.S. interests.  Four of them are going to be critical:  China, Russia Iran and Turkey.

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