In coordination with Qatar, Turkey has decided to transfer Syrian fighters stationed in Azerbaijan and Libya to Afghanistan.

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Since announcing its intention to intervene militarily in Libya in December 2019, Turkey has sent tens of thousands of Syrian mercenaries to western Libya. It did so as part of a security deal with the departing National Accord Government .

The Turkish government also dispatched Syrian militants to the Nagorno-Karabakh territory, a disputed region between Armenia and Azerbaijan, to fight with Azerbaijani forces in the conflict.

Turkey is caught in a bind as a result of international and regional requests for the mercenaries to be removed from Libya. As a result, it moved quickly to coordinate measures with its partner Qatar to remove the mercenaries from Libya.

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