Syrian hirelings in Libya protesting against overdue salaries
There is anger among the
foreign mercenaries brought by Turkey into Libya to aid the Tripoli-based
Government of National Accord (GNA).
The anger boils down to
the failure of the Turkish government and the GNA to pay the mercenaries their
salaries for five months now.
A video leaked out of the
Police Academy in Tripoli showed Syrian mercenaries complaining against the
failure of the Turkish government to pay them their salaries.
Turkey had to pull back
some of the mercenaries apparently because of the lack of financial resources
for their salaries.
Mercenaries' change of
heart
Dozens of pro-Ankara
hirelings staged a protest earlier this week inside the Police Academy in
Tripoli against the failure of the Turkish government to pay them their
salaries for five months now.
Each of the hirelings
participating in the protest said he had an accumulated overdue salary of
$10,000.
The London-based Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights confirmed the presence of a financial crisis
behind the anger of the Syrian mercenaries in Libya.
The mercenaries, it said,
expected to return to their country after Libyan reach a settlement to the
conflict in their country.
There will be rising
anger among the mercenaries in the coming period, the observatory said.
Back to Istanbul
The Turkish government
returned some of the mercenaries it sent to Libya against the background of the
financial crisis.
A Turkish Airlines plane
took off from Mitiga Airport with dozens of Syrian mercenaries on board and
flew back to Turkey.
