Turkish Intelligence team in Yemen to Train Terrorists Sent to Syria- Yemeni Security Source

SANAA, (ST)_ A Yemeni security official revealed that “a team of Turkish intelligence is  in Yemen to supervise  sending armed terrorists of the Muslim Brotherhood movement to Turkey where they are trained and then sent to Syria.”

“Turkey works on attracting fighters from many countries to take them to Syria, after learning about effectiveness of al-Qaeda affiliated groups in the battle on the Syrian soil.” The security official told the Saudi daily al-Sharq.

The security official said that the Turkish intelligence chief, who visited Yemen last month discussed  this matter with  the military leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in Yemen and requested  support for the Syrian  Brotherhood to achieve gains on the ground and not to let Qaeda factions attract terrorists freely.

The official confirmed that “a large number of Yemenis from the Muslim Brotherhood Movement went to fight in Syria” while  the Turkish intelligence train  a large number of “fighters” from  different Arab countries” including Libya, Egypt, Yemen and transported  them to fight on fronts , determined in accordance with the sort of  training they had received.

He detailed that the  “Turkish Airlines opened direct flights from Yemen to Ankara to transport terrorists” , as formerly   the transport process was made individually,  while today large numbers  of them leave for Syria  , with the knowledge of the Yemeni authorities.

However, several Yemeni media sources revealed that  Muslim Brotherhood  leaders prepared dozens of young men in Yemen several months ago and sent them to Syria where they  joined  the armed terrorist groups t in the acts of killings, kidnappings and destruction , and that  Turkey is  funding and arming terrorist groups and facilitate their  infiltration into Syria.

T. Fateh