(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia’s concrete efforts have succeeded in releasing a regime military pilot from a supposed 12-year imprisonment in Turkey and delivering him to the Syrian regime.
After finishing his court papers on Friday, Turkish authorities has deported Colonel Mohammed Fayyadh Soufan to Syria after seven months in detention, pro-regime media outlets said on Friday.
Soutane, 55, would have been in jail for up to 12 years if the Turkish penal code had been applied to him, but 3rd Court in Hatay freed him on Thursday. He was handed over to the Syrian regime hours later via the border crossing of Yeladaghi.
The pilot who was in fight mission to bomb opposition-held areas in Idlib province had escaped rebel rockets by ejecting himself from aircraft and an emergency landing at the Turkish border.
The release has sparked activists anger over Turkey, saying Ankara has ignored the suffering of the Syrian people and followed its interest with Russia, especially in the ongoing deployment in Idlib over Astana Talks.
Activists have accused Turkey of being lenient and tolerant with the ‘ criminal pilot, who with hundreds if Syrian regime military pilots have bombed liberated areas with thousands of barrel bombs that claimed lives of almost half million people.
Social media activists launched campaign to make a swap deal between the regime pilot and Lieutenant Colonel Hussein Harmoush, one the first Syrian army officers who defected in support of the Syrian revolution 6 years ago.
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