|
Trending Topics
|
Report: Turkey Arming and Training Syrian Rebels
(Telegraph-UK) Michael Weiss - Rebel sources in Hatay told me that not only is Turkey supplying light arms to select battalion commanders, it is also training Syrians in Istanbul. Men from the unit I had been embedded with two weeks ago were vetted and called up by Turkish intelligence in the last few days and large consignments of AK-47s are being delivered by the Turkish military to the Syrian-Turkish border. Materiel is being stockpiled in Damascus, in Idlib near the Turkish border and in Zabadani on the Lebanese border. Opposition activists said this week that the flow of weapons has significantly increased after a decision by Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other Gulf states to provide millions of dollars in funding each month. The writer is the communications director of The Henry Jackson Society.