Special to WorldTribune.com

ANKARA — The opposition has raised the prospect that Turkey’s military was cooperating with Islamic State of Iraq and Levant.

The opposition has accused the Turkish Army of cooperating with ISIL along the border with Syria. The opposition cited a video that showed ISIL and Turkish soldiers consulting along the Syrian border in late October.

“The General Staff must provide a better explanation for this,” Sezgin Tanrikulu, deputy chairman of the opposition Republican People’s Party, said.

The video, dated Oct. 22, showed Turkish officers talking to ISIL fighters. The purported ISIL members were seen carrying weapons.

At first, the opposition addressed the video in parliament. On Oct. 29, the General Staff said the Turkish officers were warning ISIL not to cross the Syrian border.

But Tanrikulu dismissed the General Staff’s explanation. The opposition chief said the military brass did not say who contacted ISIL and which language was spoken at the border meeting.

In mid-2014, the opposition demanded an investigation into a video that showed an ISIL training camp near Istanbul. The government of then-Prime Minister Recep Erdogan denied such a facility.

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