Afrinpost – Special
The Afrinpost learned from sources among the militants of the Islamic militia affiliated to the Turkish occupation and the Muslim Brotherhood that Turkish intelligence had included elements of the terrorist organization ISIS in the battle to take control of the town of Sheikh Aqil in the western countryside of Aleppo.
The sources confirmed that the elements were detained in the “Marati / Maarateh” prison and were released from the prison with the aim of participating in the battles of controlling the villages and towns of the western countryside of Aleppo, stating that after the completion of the control of the town, the elements were returned to the prison, and that some of them died In those battles.
On March 5, Sky News Arabia had shown video clips of gunmen belonging to the terrorist organization ISIS, fighting alongside the Turkish occupation army in Idlib governorate, northwestern Syria, in the latest sign of Turkey’s exploitation of terrorist organizations.
The gunmen placing ISIS flags over their uniform appeared in front of the body of a Syrian regime soldier, and many reports confirmed that Ankara relied on terrorist-classified organizations in its military operations and provided them with air and ground support, which was repeated during the invasion and occupation of Afrin and Sere Kaniye/ Ras al-Ain ”, and“ Gre Spi/ Tel Abyad ”.
According to observers, the form of direct assimilation between ISIS and the occupied Turkish army takes many forms, if it is in the form of mercenaries in Libya, or the extremists dress the Turkish military uniform and fight under the cover of artillery and attacking aircraft, and move in the mechanisms that Ankara sent to strengthen its points and military operation in Syrian Idlib .
Moscow has openly accused Turkey of violating international law, and that it merged the points of concentration of its soldiers in Idlib with the fortified areas of terrorist-classified organizations, namely, the Headquarters for the Liberation of Al-Sham, the Turkestan Party, and the Guardians of Religion, among others.
These organizations have become the pillar of the occupying Turkish army in any ground attack in Syria, and they have committed war crimes in all regions where they fought with the Turkish invasion if it was against the SDF and the Kurdish component when they carried out field executions, or what they are doing in the ISIS manner Prisoners who fall into their hands.
Several facts confirmed the existence of relations between Turkey and the ISIS terrorist organization for many years, despite Ankara’s public denial of the existence of this relationship, and in November 2019, the US Treasury said that there are entities and people who finance ISIS in Turkey and provide him with logistical support.
