Erdogan opens new outlets for blood of Syrian mercenaries in Kashmir and Qatar

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan still loves to trade in blood and sell lives. This is the starting point for his dealings with the Syrian mercenaries who were sent to death in Libya and Azerbaijan, and now a new field has been opened for them for proxy wars in Kashmir and slavery in Qatar under the pretext of protecting sports facilities. The Turkish-backed Hamza Division began to recruit mercenaries under orders from Erdogan to send them to fight in Kashmir on the side of the Pakistani army against India.

Sources have said that the Al-Amshat faction, which recruited 550 members in Afrin, aged from 16 to 22 years, would be trained initially in the faction’s camps in the Sheikh Hadid area in Afrin. They were carefully selected, but they were not informed to which party or country they will be sent.

Meanwhile, the Hamza Division has recruited 320 soldiers in the Tal Abyad area in the countryside of Raqqa, who are being trained in a Turkish army camp south of the city.

The officers were informed that they would be paid up to $2,500 a month for each component, and a written pledge was taken from each member that they would recruit mercenaries to fight for Turkey outside Syria, but they were not informed yet that the destination was Pakistan.

They were informed that within a month they would be transferred to Turkey and would be trained in Turkish army bases for a period of 21 days before being sent to a new destination as fighters.

The source confirmed that the Turkish authorities informed Nasr al-Hariri, head of the coalition, and Abdel-Rahman Mustafa, head of the interim government, of the move, and ordered them not to give any media statements, whether denial or confirmation, about the matter. In a related context, sources of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that the Turkish government intends to send 200 fighters from its loyal factions to Qatar early next year. Turkish intelligence asked the Majd Corps and some other factions loyal to it to prepare lists of names of 200 fighters who participated in the battles of Libya and the Karabakh region and whose contracts had expired and they returned to Syria, with the aim of guarding sports facilities and centers in Qatar with monthly salaries ranging between $1,500 and $2,500.

The Syrian Observatory reported that at a time when Libya is witnessing a new political process after the Libyan-Libyan agreement, the issue of mercenaries comes to the fore again, as sources at the Observatory reported that the return of mercenaries of the pro-Ankara factions to Syria had stopped more than 20 days ago, after the last batch had returned from Libya to Syria in mid-November. On the contrary, information was received by the Syrian Observatory about Turkey’s intention to send a new batch of mercenaries from the Syrian factions to Libya in the coming days.

It is noteworthy that the number of conscripts who went to Libya so far reached about 18,000 mercenaries of Syrian nationality, including 350 children under the age of 18, and about 10,750 mercenaries of the pro-Turkish factions returned to Syria after the end of their contracts and taking their financial dues. The number of jihadists who arrived in Libya reached 10,000, of whom 2,500 were Tunisian citizens.

It is also reported that the death toll of the mercenaries of the Syrian factions loyal to Ankara in Libya amounted to 496 dead.

The Syrian Observatory has obtained new information on the issue of mercenaries in Azerbaijan through a number of fighters who had recently returned to Syria from the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Sources at the Observatory reported that the material dues received by the returning fighters varied, as some of them received an amount 600 Turkish liras and $3,500, and others received 1,000 Turkish liras and $1,000, while another section received 5,000 Turkish liras in two installments. All confirmed that there are remaining financial dues that they are supposed to receive in the coming days.

The sources at the Syrian Observatory added that the number of human losses in terms of the dead in Azerbaijan exceeded the deaths of mercenaries in Libya, as the death toll of fighters from Syrian factions loyal to Ankara reached 514, while the number killed in Libya reached 496. The Observatory said that new batches of bodies of the fighters who were killed in the Nagorno-Karabakh region were transferred to Syria, accompanied by recent returnees from Azerbaijan, and thus the number of corpses arriving in Syria reached 340.

Thus, about 825 fighters from the pro-Ankara factions remain in Azerbaijan out of 2,580 who have been transferred, and the fate of the remaining ones is not known until the moment, whether they will return to Syria in the coming days or whether Turkey will keep them there at the present time, as some of them may have died there, and the Syrian Observatory has not yet been able to document them from among the dead.