The above question has a simple answer: Fighting DAESH.In recent weeks, Turkey's deployment of forces of protection units to the Bashiqa military camp north of Mosul fueled tensions between Ankara and Baghdad. Amid a war of words, a DAESH attack on the camp killed multiple peshmerga fighters and left four Turkish servicemen wounded. Simply put, the camp was set up in a DAESH-controlled area and there is no military force but Turkish troops challenging the terrorist organization's authority.From a legal standpoint, it is more important to note that the Turkish military has been stationed in Northern Iraq, as per the central government's request. When DAESH captured Mosul in June 2014, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi asked the Turkish government to set up a military camp in Bashiqa. Ironically, the same leader reacted to Turkey's most recent move in the fight against DAESH at a time when fighters from around the world have been arriving in the region to fight terrorists. For some reason, Baghdad opted to raise questions about a military mission that Ankara initiated due to the Iraqi government's original demand.What, one wonders, is the reason behind this obvious contradiction? Once again, the answer is clear, as all countries paying lip service to fighting DAESH have arrived in the region to claim their share of the bounty. How many airstrikes did the U.S.-led coalition and Russia each launch on DAESH positions? How many civilians and moderate rebels have lost their lives in each campaign? Why would the Russian air force rather bomb moderate rebels who are actively fighting DAESH instead of DAESH's oil wells?According to the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Russian businessmen have been serving as intermediaries in the DAESH oil trade. However, many countries conveniently avoid speaking up against Russia's direct role in financing terrorism.An investigation into the DAESH attack on Bashiqa found that the terrorists used Russian-made Katyusha rocket launchers to target Turkish troops. Yet, this concrete evidence of a Russian arms trade with DAESH could not get the U.N.'s attention.There are many more questions to ask, but the international community is playing dumb. After all, keeping the Syrian civil war going is a better excuse to conduct airstrikes from hundreds of miles away. Another priority is to perpetuate the state of chaos across an oil-rich region by giving Syrian President Bashar Assad, the murderer of 300,000 Syrians, a free pass. The plan inevitably would limit Turkey's regional influence.At this time, many countries fear that Turkey, like themselves, would pursue imperialist goals behind the smokescreen of fighting DAESH. They speculate that the Turkish military might permanently remain in Mosul if they liberate the area from DAESH. It is important to keep in mind that Turkey had a similar opportunity during the Gulf War. At the time, the country refrained from a risky move under admittedly more favorable circumstances. If Turkey indeed were to pursue expansionist goals, it would surely have a stronger case in Syria than the United States, Russia, Iran and France combined. At the end of the day, dozens of Turkish citizens have died in DAESH attacks, which could hypothetically lead Ankara to invoke the right to self-defense.No capital around the world will be safe until the United States and European governments stop treating Turkey, a country on the frontline against DAESH, unfairly. The growing dislike of the West across the region will not help either.