Products: This graphic shows the different uniforms made by the Turkish sweatshop employing boys as young as nine
Daily Mail: EXCLUSIVE - 'Child slaves' making uniforms for Isis: Inside the Turkish sweatshop where children as young as nine work 12 hours a day stitching combat gear used in battle by Islamic State
* Syrian refugee children forced to work in a military uniform sweatshop that sells camouflage to ISIS
* Unable to go to school and desperate for money on the Turkish border the boys work 12 hour days for £10
* Factory owner Abu Zakour has no problem selling uniforms to ISIS: 'It doesn’t matter where my customers are from'
* He also supplies Al Qaeda group Jabhat al-Nusra, Ahrar al-Sham and other rebel FSA fighters with military garb
Drawing slowly on his cheap cigarettes, 35-year-old Abu Zakour is hardened as he describes how he employs children as young as nine to stitch the uniforms that end up on the backs of frontline ISIS fighters.
The Syrian boys - and a couple of girls hidden upstairs - are paid a minimum of 40 Turkish lira (£10) a day to stitch, cut and measure out the camouflage material and help their older colleagues piece together the uniforms that get smuggled across the border to rebel groups.
‘My kids are in a school run by an NGO,’ he said, speaking exclusively to MailOnline from his office in the Turkish border town of Antakya. ‘These children could go too but their parents want them to earn money, so what can I do?’
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WNU Editor: 12 hour days to earn about $15 US .... to say that these are desperate people is an understatement.
3 comments:
But the bigger question is why would the Turkish government allow this business to exist as a supplier to Daesh. Maybe because the Turkish leadership is allied to them, loyal to them and consider them and other radical Sunnis to be more in tune with their goals and beliefs than the US, NATO or the freedoms espoused in liberal western democracies. They want the technology and western economic exposure, but let the people live in the misery of 15th century ME philosophy.
This is no ally to the West, no benevolent government. Barely a one off from Saudi or other repressive ME regimes. An embarrassment to modern freedom.
Simple American,
When considering actions to take against this, one has to consider what the media reaction would likely be to eliminating the factory or trying to get Turkey removed from NATO. Remember ISIS has allot of support in the US and "western" media. In dealing with things like this, messaging is going to be very, very important. Right now we are not doing so well at this ourselves. With that said I agree with your position on this.
ISIS will likely eventually be defeated. It seems they are facing to many different enemies on to many fronts. The math just doesn't seem to work for them which would be a very, very good thing!! Hopefully all parties can figure out what to do after the defeat of ISIS but it is probably best to focus on one thing at a time. If Turkey wishes to support ISIS, if they do not face retribution at the hands of America they will face such retribution from someone else.
Well, considering that almost everything we buy - by electronic equipment to clothes - is made in poors country from modern slaves. Where's the news here...
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