Turkey's Difficulties in Syria: Plunder, drugs & Turkish pound collapse

Rivalries and disputes between Turkish-backed Assad-backed militant groups threaten its strategy in Syria. Complications from monetary uncertainty and competition for loot and drug control and criminal activity.

With Turkey's economy still in turmoil, the question is whether Ankara can maintain control of areas under the Syrian opposition, where the Turkish lira is now the de facto currency.

Competition for revenue, and package crime, have escalated again in Afrin despite assurances from Turkish authorities that there would be no tolerance for looting and looting. Mohammed Jassem, leader of the Sultan Suleiman Shah Brigade with which Ankara worked closely together to transport militias to Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh, has long been accused of extortion, murder, kidnapping, torture, looting, robbery, theft and robbery. .