In an email to The Guardian , Noam Chomsky accused Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of hypocrisy . He said : " Turkey blamed Isis ( for the attack on Istanbul at 2016 ) , which Erdoğan has been aiding in many ways , while also supporting the al-Nusra Front , which is hardly different . " Jacques Behnan Hindo , the Syrian Catholic Archbishop of Hasakeh-Nisibi , accused Turkey of preventing Christians from fleeing Syria while allowing jihadists to cross its border unchecked . He said on the Vatican Radio , " In the north , Turkey allows through lorries , Daesh ( ISIS ) fighters , oil stolen from Syria , wheat and cotton : all of these can cross the border but nobody ( from the Christian community ) can pass over . " . He claimed it a day after ISIL abducted more than 90 Assyrian Christians from villages
for the attack on Istanbul at 2016
January 2016 Istanbul bombing
Turkish involvement in the Syrian Civil War