For months, information, testimonies and documents have been emerging that the occupying Turkish state has been transporting mercenaries recruited and trained in Syria to Southern Kurdistan. Hewlêr and Baghdad remain silent on the occupation and looting activities and their complicity with Turkish-backed mercenaries.

Journalist Huner Ahmet went to Belavê village in Amêdiyê district of Duhok and filmed the gangs deployed by the Turkish state in the region.

Journalist Ahmet witnessed that the mercenaries deployed in the area had long beards and spoke Arabic.

Huner Ahmet said: “The number of mercenaries deployed by the Turkish state for the occupation of Southern Kurdistan reaches 600. All the mercenaries were brought from Afrin and Jindires and are now employed in the construction of new military bases.”

In a statement on 7 July 2024, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) spokesperson announced that about 300 ISIS fighters had been settled in the Berwarî Bala region. Since then, the flow of gangs has continued.

In a report published on 23 July, the Centre for Documentation of Violations in Northern and Eastern Syria announced that the occupying Turkish state had transferred 300 ISIS mercenaries from Syria to Southern Kurdistan.