Turkey has a secret pact with Islamic State militants to swap oil looted from Syrian wells for weapons to be used on the battlefield, it has been sensationally claimed.
According to a cache of documents seen by Russia's state-backed broadcaster, Turkish officials are signing off on payments to jihadi oil merchants in a deal which critics say places Ankara at the heart of ISIS' terror network.
Kremlin-funded television network RT said invoices recovered from the Syrian town of Shaddadi showed the multiple sources of the terror group's revenue streams, including cross-border smuggling and oil sales to neighbouring Turkey.
The files from the town, which was recently liberated by Kurdish rebels from ISIS, reveal the "cozy relations" between Ankara and ISIS, the broadcaster said.
Witnesses said militants coming from Raqqa - ISIS' de facto Syrian capital - and the besieged city of Aleppo to collect and transport oil frequently named Turkey as their final destination.
One teenage oil refinery worker said: "They go with the oil and come back with the guns. And so they go, back and forth, back and forth.
"They wouldn't get any weapons from Turkey if they didn't ship them oil."
Others claim Turkey was allowing the free movement of terrorists across its border with Syria.
An ISIS fanatic who gave his name as Muhammed Ahmed Muhammed said moving between Turkey and Syria was as easy as "crossing the street".
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