Correspondent in Istanbul.
They are called the "
Wagneres of Turkey
" - or even the "
Erdogan mercenaries
". With the departure of the Americans, the taking over by Turkey of the management of the Kabul airport, the name of the private group Sadat resurfaced with concern.
Officially, Ankara - which has deployed hundreds of soldiers to Afghanistan as a NATO member since 2001 - will be tasked with ensuring the security of this main exit route for Western diplomats and aid workers that some fear. see it fall into the hands of the Taliban.
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Unofficially, this perilous task could well be entrusted to the same Syrian auxiliaries previously dispatched to Libyan territory and to Nagorno-Karabakh.
According to the Euphrates Media Center, a Syro-Kurdish news site, MIT (the Turkish national intelligence organization) has even already discussed the modalities of this participation during a meeting on June 24,
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