More than 800 Syrian mercenaries recruited by Turkey killed in Libya and Karabakh

More than 800 Syrian mercenaries recruited by Turkey from among the Salafist-leaning groups in opposition to the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad have died in the wars in Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) denounced today. In a statement, the NGO states that 496 of these mercenaries, including several minors, perished in Libya and 293 did so in the Karabakh war, while several hundred more were injured or lost contact with them after they were recruited by Turkish intelligence services ! According to the observatory, since last December Turkish President Recep Tayeb Erdogan decided to intervene directly…