Reports are coming through that a number of gang members are now fleeing to Turkey after the intensifying Russian airstrikes against ISIS positions in Syria.

Syrian ambassador in Russia, Riyaz Hedad, said in a statement to a Russian news agency that over 40 military bases of the gang groups have been destroyed since the beginning of Russian airstrikes in the Syrian territory.

Hedad noted that some 400 members of the gangs have fled and taken shelter in Turkey as a result of the intense strikes and losses they have suffered.

TURKISH STATE IN HAMA

On the other hand, Rami Abdul Rahman, Director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, stated that the Turkish state has sent large forces under the name of 'Fatih Sultan Mehmet Brigades' to Hama region of Syria recently. The Director of SOHR said the Fatih Sultan Mehmet and Sultan Murat Brigades, which were founded through Turkish Intelligence Organization MİT, are conducting attacks on the mainly Kurdish neighborhood of Sheikh Maqsoud alongside the forces of Al-Nusra and Ahrar Al-Sham.