Turkish Army, Ankara-Backed Terrorists Force Incoming Al-Wa’er Militants to Fight

Hawar news quoted a local source in al-Ra’i district of al-Shahba region that the Turkish army deprives the residents of food and forces them, specially the under-18-year-old children, to fight and work for them.

The source added that al-Wa’er residents immigrate to the region based on the Turkey-backed militants’ fake promises and then are treated awfully in a way that if the conditions continue, they will die of hunger.

Noting that the militants are under the direct command of the Turkish spy agency, he said that the Turkish army promises to give them a monthly salary of $300 but doesn’t pay anything to them after they come to Northern Syria.

Reports said last week that tens of gunmen and their family members that had left al-Wa’er district in Homs for the border town of Jarabulus in Northern Aleppo within the framework of an evacuation deal with the Syrian army could not tolerate the awful conditions in the militant-held region and moved back to al-Wa’er.

Local sources in the Northwestern outskirts of Homs city reported that 35 gunmen and their family members that had left al-Wa’er district for the militant-held town of Jarabulus at border with Turkey complained about the violent and insulting behavior of the militants that rule Jarabulus towards the incoming rebels.

The sources quoted the al-Wa’er gunmen and their family members as saying that the bad conditions in Jarabulus forced them to return to their homes in al-Wa’er.

In the meantime, Homs Governor General Talal Barazi confirmed that some of the ex-residents of al-Wa’er have asked to return to al-Wa’er, adding that a large number of the gunmen and their family members that had left al-Wa’er have already returned home.

He further said that two groups from Jarabulus and a group from Idlib have retuned to al-Wa’er, while an increasing number have asked to do the same in coming weeks.

Al-Barazi went on to say that recent incidents (bad conditions in Jarabulus and other militant-held regions) have now discouraged the gunmen and their family members that are al-Wa’er from leaving the neighborhood. “For instance, over 1,600 were to leave al-Wa’er within the framework of the eighth phase of the evacuation deal, but only 1,000 did so and the rest remained in the neighborhood.”

Thousands of gunmen and their family members have thus far left al-Wa’er in eight phases of evacuation deal.

Yaser al-Mustafa, who has cut ties with the Turkey-backed Euphrates Shield Operation troops, disclosed in April that Jarabulus was turned into a Turkish town and the Ankara appointed a Turkish governor for it.

He said that the Turkish soldiers were the occupiers that “occupied Jarabulus and the Turkish army dispatched all its allied militants to other fronts”.

Mustafa added that “when the Turkish army forwarded us to the border town of Jarabulus under the pretext of war on ISIL we captured the town without firing even one bullet.”

Turkey declared on August 2016 that its Army launched ‘Euphrates Shield’ military operation in Syria, as Ankara claims that it began to cleanse the ISIL terrorists from its border with the Arab country.

But, despite Ankara’s allegation, Turkish military forces supported militant groups in Northern Syria, and fought against Kurdish forces in the region.