Syrian opposition accuses Turkey of allowing mercenaries

A key member of the unrecognized Syrian opposition accused Turkey on Wednesday of allowing Saudi mercenaries to enter through its border with Syria, RIA Novosti reports.

“These people are destroying Syria,” Haytham Manna, spokesman for the National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change, told the Voice of Russia. “Unfortunately, there are political players such as Turkey who allow them to invade Syria.”

Manna added that the mercenaries were hired to join the fight against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad "so that they keep shooting, instead of trying to figure out who is who.”