Captured ISIS reveal they trained in Turkey.

Turkey is training Islamic State terrorists in a camp disguised as a
training ground for the Free Syrian Army, a 20-year-old jihadist captured
by the Kurdish YPG told Sputnik. The prisoner said
Ankara’s help to the
“moderate” Syrian opposition is not as innocent as portrayed. Captured by the Kurdish
People’s Protection Unit (YPG) fighters in Northern Syria in November,
Abdurrahman Abdulhadi, a Syrian national-turned Daesh (Islamic State) fighter, says he was trained in Turkey before receiving his first assignment with Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ ISIL).
The YPG maintains external security in
the three Democratic Union Party
(PYD) run areas, and is fighting
Islamist groups, primarily Jabhat al-
Nusra and IS. The PYD, an offshoot of
the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in
Turkey, has effectively been ruling
parts of Syria after government troops
were forced to withdraw from the
areas in 2012. With special permission
from the local Kurdish authorities,
Russian journalists received first-hand
testimony that Turkey is “a friend” of
Islamic State.
“They only appear to be enemies,
however, they are friends,” the 20-
year-old Abdulhadi, whose brother, Til
Berak, is still fighting for IS told
Sputnik Turkey. While Turkish
nationals constitute only about “10
percent” of jihadists he had come
across, the prisoner said Turkey is
actively training Islamic State fighters.
“In August 2014, I was training in the
Turkish town of Adana with one of
ISIL’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 IS soldier said military
training was conducted by two officers
and one of them only “spoke Turkish,
so another one had to translate for

him.”