Siwar Idlib Brigade commander of Jabhat Al Akrad Forces, Iskender Ela, evaluated the latest situation in Idlib, which is under the occupation of the Turkish state's army and mercenaries.

Commander Ela told ANHA that "the occupying Turkish state realizes its interests through this mercenary group. In recent years, especially in 2013 and 2014, Hayat Tehrîr Al-Sham mercenaries controlled Idlib by destroying the national revolutionary forces with the support of the invading Turkish state."

Ela pointed out that Hayat Tehrîr Al-Sham mercenaries put pressure on the people to comply with their policies through terrorism, massacre, kidnapping, extortion and rape, and said: "We are in communication with our people and relatives in Idlib, and they say that they cannot tolerate this oppression anymore. Public demonstrations in Idlib city also show that the people do not accept the existence of invaders and mercenaries."

Ela said that the main goal of the people is to get rid of the mentality of the invading Turkish state and its mercenaries, and added that the torture applied in the prisons in Idlib was also applied during the Baath regime, and that the number of detainees held by the Hayat Tahrir Al Sham mercenaries was the same as the regime.

Ela said that what is happening in Idlib and the occupied regions is done by order of the Turkish state and said: "Since the beginning of the Syrian crisis, the occupying Turkish state has been alienating revolutionaries and patriots and spreading the terrorist ideas of the Muslim Brotherhood."

Ela pointed out that the Turkish state wants to turn Idlib into a center of global terrorism: "As Siwar Idlib, we have known the aims of the Al Nusra and other extremist groups for a long time. That's why they attack us and try to destroy us. For this reason, we left Idlib and went to Afrin and joined the Jabhat Al Akrad Forces, which are under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Because here we saw the idea of a democratic nation, the brotherhood of peoples and equality.”

Ela said: "When we talk to our people in Idlib, we see that they demand the Autonomous Administration project to be implemented. This is demanded not only in Idlib but also in all regions of Suwayda and the Baath regime."