Syrian mercenaries... Erdogan's weapon to carry out its goals

Syrian mercenaries have become Erdogan's external weapon, with the complicity of some countries of the world, and thus distorted the image of the Syrian people in the Arab world, the Middle East and the world, and the term mercenaries has become attached to the word Syrians and Syria in the Google search engine.

26 May, 2021 21:56

Newsdesk- Akram Barakat

After the outbreak of the Syrian revolution, which later turned into a stifling crisis as a result of external interventions, led by the Turkish occupation state, which opened its doors to the influx of Syrians to refugee camps, Turkey recruited thousands of them to work as mercenaries, and used them in its colonial aims in Syria and Arab countries.

According to official statistics issued by the Turkish Statistics Authority, the total number of displaced Syrians exceeded 3 million 645 thousand and 557 people, 47.5 percent of those under 18 years of age.

According to a report by the Syrian Observatory, "brokers" affiliated with Ankara have recently deployed in the Syrian refugee camps in Turkey to persuade men and young men from the camps, in addition to the remnants of mercenary groups, to go to Libya to fight under the Turkish cloak in exchange for huge sums of money, provided that the broker takes a sum. Financially, it ranges between 100 and 300 dollars for each group he recruits.

With Turkey's entry into the Syrian conflict, the term mercenary dominated the Syrian scene, and under the pretext of supporting what was known as the revolution, Turkey supported what was known as the Free Army, which later turned into a pawn in Turkey’s hand. Instead of fighting the Damascus government, it launched attacks on the north and east regions. Syria.

'the beginning...'

Turkey initially used the mercenaries of Ahrar al-Sham and Jabhat al-Nusra, to launch attacks on the regions of northern and eastern Syria. The first attack began in late 2012 on the city of Serêkaniyê by the Turkish occupation army, then south of the districts of Tirbespiye, Girkê Legê, and Tal Kocber in mid-2013, then it supported ISIS mercenaries at the end of 2014 who launched an attack on Kobane canton and then on the regions of north and east Syria , All the way to Şengal.

The writer and political analyst, Hussein Omar, stated that since the beginning of the Syrian revolution, the Muslim Brotherhood riding the wave, the demonstrations in front of the mosques, and the start of the French, American and British international intelligence with Turkey's help in arming the armed groups, Erdogan has armed the Muslim Brotherhood, and he said: Surprisingly, because the Turkish government is a Brotherhood government. "

Hussein Omar stressed that the Syrian revolution turned from the beginning of arming what they were known as the revolutionaries or the Free Army to mercenaries because they took up the weapons of others in order to fight with it, and did not arm themselves, and said: “These received weapons and salaries from external parties and from secret rooms that were formed in Turkey and Jordan. Thus, they turned into tools in the hands of a neighboring country, and Western countries supported Erdogan's approach to that. "

'A mercenary is ...'

According to the Additional First Annex to the Geneva Conventions signed in 1949, relating to the protection of victims of international armed conflicts, which is the first international agreement dealing with the subject of mercenaries, a mercenary is any person who is specially recruited - locally or abroad - to fight in an armed conflict or actually and directly participate in Hostilities.

'From Libya to Azerbaijan and then to Kurdistan'

After defeating the mercenaries of Ahrar al-Sham and after them the mercenaries of Jabhat al-Nusra, and recently ISIS mercenaries, Turkey formed from the remnants of these mercenaries and Syrian refugees in Turkey the so-called (Syrian National Army), which was Turkey's spearhead in its attacks on Afrin canton in January 2018. And then on the Girê Spi district and the city of Serêkaniyê in October 2019, in addition to sending them to Libya to fight on the side of the Libyan Government of National Accord, and this was confirmed by Turkish officials on several occasions, in addition to sending them to Azerbaijan during the outbreak of the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan in mid-2020 And recently, to the legitimate right of defense areas in Başr Kurdistan.

Human rights and reports confirmed that Turkey sent more than 20 thousand (Syrian mercenaries) to the battlefields in Azerbaijan and Libya, among them 18 thousand were sent to Arab countries in North Africa, hundreds of them were killed in Libya and Azerbaijan, and those reports indicated the spread of youth recruitment offices in Areas under the control of mercenaries supported by Ankara in northern Syria.

Journalist Dalil Zilan quoted reliable sources confirming that 450 mercenaries who participated in the battles of Karabakh and Libya were transferred to the legitimate defense areas to attack Guerilla. The same sources confirmed that these mercenaries wear the uniforms of the Turkish special forces.

'Opening offices to recruit Syrians to work as mercenaries'

There is a report confirming that Turkey has prepared a new batch of mercenaries to send them to Somalia, and the processing process is carried out by opening offices for the recruitment of mercenaries in Afrin, Jarablus and Al-Bab, in addition to opening reception and training centers in the Libyan city of Tripoli, and according to Sky News, the first batch is estimated to number about a thousand Mercenaries, and is scheduled to be sent to the two military bases in Mogadishu.

Hussein Omar explained: “I believe that Turkey is one of the first countries that used others as mercenaries throughout its history, during the days of the Ottoman Sultanate and even before that. During the departure of the ancestors of the Turks from Mongolia towards the region, they used the tribes and groups whose lands were seized in the conquest of other regions; It builds on this Ottoman heritage, and that's exactly what it is doing now. "

'Turkey's goals'

Hussein Omar made an important point, which is that Erdogan stated in 2010 in one of his speeches that they have a mission and participation in setting the map of the new Middle East, and are contributors to that, and he said: “So when the Arab revolutions began, despite the great economic relations and the complex relations between Turkey And the regimes of the countries known as the Arab Spring countries, Erdogan began to support the revolutions, because there was a plan for the Brotherhood to have the upper hand in these revolutions, which is what really happened, because Erdogan heads the Turkish wing of the Brotherhood organization.

Omar believed that the first political agenda of Western countries and Turkey in Syria is that Syria be Turkey’s share and under its tutelage, so Turkey supported the armed groups with the support of European and Western countries, but the equation changed as a result of the Russian intervention in 2015, and Turkey shot down a Russian plane, and then build the coalition Russian-Turkish, and said: "After the Russian intervention, Turkey abandoned the theory of overthrowing Assad, and thus all Syrian armed groups turned into tools to implement Turkish agendas completely upon demand."

'Libya'

A research article published by the Foreign Policy Research Institute in December 2020 summarized Turkey's goals in Libya in three points: its desire to control water, preserve its economic interests in Libya, and the political and economic desire to reach the rest of Africa.

'Azerbaijan'

As for Turkey's support for Azerbaijan with mercenaries in its war, observers believe that the Turkish president sought to extend his influence to another region to the South Caucasus, and this shows that Turkey has a strategy to deal with the Armenian-Azerbaijani file from the principle of entering as a player in the conflict and not as a mediator, and thus the transition from influence The regional point is due to international influence, and the other goal is that Turkey seeks to establish a military base in Azerbaijan in coordination with Israel, and that there is an expansion and a desire to revive the Ottoman Sultanate.

In November 2020, an investigative committee in Armenia issued search cards for three Syrian mercenaries, who fought in the Karabakh region alongside the Azerbaijani forces, namely Abu Setif al-Hindawi, Ahmad al-Tibi and Abu Dhiab al-Halabi, and charged them with international terrorism and violation of international humanitarian law. During armed conflicts.

لاThe main goal of Turkey sending mercenaries to Kurdistan is to exterminate the kurds and to form an extremist Sunni belt between Rojava and Başûr Kurdistan on Iran's side. Hussein Omar explains that all successive Turkish regimes are against the Kurdish presence, and do not want the Kurds to have a place in the world, so they launched attacks on the regions of northern and eastern Syria and Kurdistan.

'Somalia'

Informed sources indicated in late 2020, that Turkey opened a border crossing in the village of Nirka in Raju district, in order to facilitate the transfer of militants to Turkey and then to Somalia. Observers believe that the goal of sending mercenaries to Somalia is to control the Horn of Africa and Somalia's energy and gas capabilities first. The encirclement of an Arab country such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia, second, and compensation for Turkey's loss of a foothold in Sudan after the overthrow of the Bashir Brotherhood government.

There is also information that the Turkish regime intends to send Syrian mercenaries to Pakistan to participate in the conflict over the Kashmir region on the borders of India.

Why are mercenaries used?

The use of mercenaries allows policymakers to wage war out of the public eye, and news of their killings seldom attracts the press as regular soldiers do. Likewise, mercenaries lack the moral authority that they are fighting in a war in which they are not a party, and therefore they commit crimes and acts that regular armies cannot commit, as they are theoretically bound by international agreements.

All of this is happening in front of world public opinion and the international community, which has become a witness to the transfer of mercenaries and remains silent, despite Turkey's admission several times that it is using Syrian mercenaries in Libya in particular. The writer and political analyst Hussein Omar believes that European countries supported Erdogan in his project regarding Syria and supported him, so they are now condoning his actions.

'Turkey distorted the image of the Syrian people'

The conclusion is that Turkey has distorted the image of the Syrian people in the Arab world, the Middle East and the world, and the term mercenary has become attached to the word Syrians and Syria in the Google engine.

ANHA