Erdoğan preparing to send mercenaries to Yemen too
Turkey keeps provoking regional states, despite all its internal problems.
It is now
preparing to send Syria mercenaries to Yemen to fight along extremists in the
war-torn state, according to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human
Rights.
Observatory
Director Rami Abdel Rahman revealed that the Turkish intelligence had asked
factions backing Turkey in Syria to prepare a list of mercenaries who can
travel to Yemen to fight side by side with extremists, in return for money.
He said
Turkish President Recep
Tayyip Erdoğan had formed an operations room in his country in order to follow
up the recruitment of mercenaries and send them to Yemen.
"Erdoğan wants
to transfer hirelings to Yemen as he does in Libya," Abdel Rahman said.
He said a Turkish
intelligence officer in the northern Syrian city of Afrin had revealed that
militants would be transferred outside Syria.
Erdoğan, he said, wants to replace these militants in Syria with Turkish army
troops.
Operations rooms were formed in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo with
the aim of recruiting militants and transferring them to both Libya and Yemen,
sources said.
Nevertheless, some of the militants had refused to fight outside Syria,
they added.
They noted that the registration office had refused to receive the forms
filled in by those who rejected the idea of fighting outside Syria.
Those accepting recruitment get $500 and then $800 a month for accepting
to travel and fight in either Libya or Yemen, the sources said.
They added that over 60 people had applied in the past two days to join
the militias that would be transferred outside Syria. Most of them, they said,
are unemployed.
Libyan National Army Spokesman Ahmed al-Mesmari said in April that Erdoğan keeps
recruiting foreign mercenaries and sending them to Libya.
He revealed that Erdoğan
is also recruiting terrorists and preparing to send them to Yemen to fight side
by side with the Muslim Brotherhood's Islah Party, in return for $5,000 for
each terrorist.
