Sky News is given rare access to the controversial Turkish military-controlled buffer zone inside Syria.
"We are not extremists," Commander Saif Abu Baker of Al Hamza Divison says repeatedly."ISIS has not gone. There are 3,000 ISIS fighters in the desert of east Syria being supported by Assad's regime and the separatist PKK .The Syrian National Army, as it is now called, was born out of the Free Syrian Army and is largely backed by Turkish funds and Turkish weaponry.
And the opposition knows they wouldn't be able to hold the line of the so-called buffer zone without Turkish military help.Commander Moatasm Abbas talks to Sky's Alex Crawford"Withdrawing is not an option. It does not exist in our dictionary. Our dictionary is revolution. He insists his troops are only in Syria to maintain security; to protect land for Syrians and create a buffer zone between Turkey and those he views as terrorists.
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