The National Interest publishes lengthy article about Turkish  business of recruiting Syrian mercenaries to participate in  hostilities in Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh

ArmInfo. The National Interest published a lengthy article regarding the Turkish business of recruiting Syrian mercenaries to participate in hostilities in  Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh.

The article "Inside the Bloody Business of Turkey's Syrian  Mercenaries" notes a high level of corruption in this process. The  authors of the article point out "Corruption is endemic to the process, and the high levels of graft—touching recruitment, basing, and the return—empower armed actors in Syria’s northwest, evidence of how foreign interventions can sustain war economies."

The article provides new evidence of the active involvement of Middle  Eastern militants in the war in Nagorno-Karabakh on the side of  Azerbaijan. The authors of the article present in detail how Turkish  intelligence authorities recruited mercenaries to participate in  hostilities.

It is noted that Turkish military intelligence required mercenaries  with serious combat experience to participate in the aggression  against Nagorno-Karabakh on the side of Azerbaijan. As a spurring  factor, the militants were shown footage allegedly of how "an  Armenian soldier cutting open the belly of a pregnant Muslim Azeri  woman" or told that "the Kurds as mercenaries allegedly participate  in hostilities on the Armenian side."

The article provides evidence not only that many mercenaries were  deceived and they did not receive the money they were promised, but  also points to the plight of Syrian mercenaries in northwestern  Syria, which forces the latter to go into mercenary even for a penny.

During the hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh, a number of authoritative  media, including the Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal  wrote about hundreds of Syrian militants associated with Turkey  deployed in Artsakh, and about their readiness to be sent to the  Karabakh conflict zone. Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad then stated  that militants from Syria were being transferred to Nagorno-Karabakh,  and Turkey was using terrorists from Syria and other countries in  Nagorno-Karabakh. In turn, the director of the Foreign Intelligence  Service of the Russian Federation, Sergei Naryshkin, also reported  that, according to information available to the FIS, mercenaries from  international terrorist organizations fighting in the Middle East are  actively being pulled into the conflict zone, and it is about  hundreds and even thousands of radicals. French President Emmanuel  Macron also spoke about the transfer of 300 Syrian militants through  Turkish territory to Baku in early October 2020.