Alwaght- Turkey trains ISIS terrorists on its soil under the guise of training so-called moderate Syrian rebels, an ISIS terrorist, captured by the Kurdish People’s Protection Unit (YPG), revealed.
Turkey trains ISIS terrorists on its soil under the guise of training so-called moderate Syrian rebels, an ISIS terrorist, captured by the Kurdish People’s Protection Unit (YPG), revealed.
Captured by fighters in Northern Syria in November, 20-year-old Abdurrahman Abdulhadi, a Syrian national-turned ISIS terrorist, told Sputnik that he was trained in Turkey before receiving his first assignment with the terrorist group.
"They only appear to be enemies, however, they are friends,” the 20-year-old Abdulhadi, whose brother, Til Berak, is still fighting for ISIS told State-run Russian news agency, Sputnik Turkey.
"In August 2014, I was training in the Turkish town of Adana with one of ISIS’s Emirs,” Abdulhadi said, adding his month-long training was completed with 60 other fighters in a camp “not far from the airport .”
The captured ISIS terrorist said military training was conducted by two officers and one of them only “spoke Turkish, so another one had to translate for him".
"Once a week we had shooting classes where we were taught to use Kalashnikovs, machine guns and other arms,” Abdulhadi said, adding “We were trained in Turkey because ISIS's command thought it was safer here than in Syria because of the bombardments there".
While the camp was officially declared to be one of the training grounds for the Free Syrian Army, the YPG prisoner says,“all sixty of those who were there were ISIS members".
"These were Syrian citizens, many of whom arrived in Turkey in search for a job initially, but later joined ISIS,” he explained .
After completing his training, Abdulhadi was tasked with escorting Syrians who wanted to join the terrorists .
“After I finished the training, I went to one of the districts in the Turkish town of Adana. My task was to meet the newly arrived recruits from Syria. After the training we sent them to the Turkish town of Urfa. From there the recruits were transferred via Turkey-Syria border crossing back to Syrian Raqqa. And from there further across Syria,” Abdulhadi explained, saying this was the only assignment he received from his “emir” during the deployment in Syria .
Besides helping to train recruits, the ISIS prisoner says he was deployed in Syria for brief periods. He was eventually captured in the village of Tal Afer on November 1 .
The prisoner also revealed that ISIS is now receiving ammunition in trucks disguised as non-military cargo. He said that such low-level fighters as him have no idea where the arms come from .
"Weapons were brought to us in civilian cars, not in military ones because fighter jets might have bombed them. ISIS is now mostly using civilian vehicles. I’ve heard they put vegetables on top of boxes with ammunition, so that war planes do not spot them".
Iraqi and Syrian officials blame Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar for contributing to the violence that has gripped the neighboring Arab states for the past two years by giving financial and military support to the ISIS Takfiri terrorist group.
