Alwaght- According to Anadolu news Agency, over the last few decades, the Turkish army has been grappling with the ominous phenomenon of deserting conscripts particularly since 2011, when the Syrian increasingly complicated crisis began and its devastating implications reached the Turkish society where serious socio-ethnic fault-lines widened more than ever .
About 20,000 service personnel have left in less than a month, said the official, who cited Turkish intelligence reports and spoke on condition of anonymity in accordance with government rules .
According to a confidential report presented to the Turkish Parliament, there are more than 310,000 fugitive conscripts in Turkey who live a miserable life and nearly 10,000 more conscripts are abandoning their military services each year .
Dr. Süreyya Yiğit, a leading political expert and the head of Dış Politika Enstitüsü, a well-known Istanbul-based think-tank, believes that due to Turkish government’s increasing interference in Syria’s three-year-old catastrophic crisis, more military servicemen decide to leave their posts especially in areas near the border with neighboring Syria because they are frustrated by the fact that their country's politicians are deeply accomplice in ISIS’ heinous crimes against the Syrian population .
The Turkish Islamist-leaning Justice and Development (AK) Party in order to cope with the embarrassing predicament of growing army deserters, had passed a controversial bill in Parliament, according to which every male citizen can be exempted from his compulsory military service in exchange of paying exemption fees worth 30,000 Turkish Lira (on the contingency that the person must attain the age of thirty years) .
Despite a general impression that compulsory military service in Turkey is a crucial stage of life like admission in University or marriage, but young Turks are reluctant to serve in an army which collaborates with the radical Syrian rebels whose commanders reside in Turkish military camps .
