{"id":160256,"date":"2024-06-14T18:50:37","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T18:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=160256"},"modified":"2024-06-14T18:50:37","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T18:50:37","slug":"pro-turkey-syria-mercenaries-head-to-niger-to-earn-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=160256","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Turkey Syria mercenaries head to Niger to earn cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like hundreds of other pro-Turkish fighters, Omar left northern Syria for mineral-rich Niger last year, joining Syrian mercenaries sent to the West African nation by a private Turkish military company. &#8220;The main reason I left is because life is hard in Syria,&#8221; fighter Omar, 24, told AFP on message app WhatsApp from Niger&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/originals\/2024\/05\/pro-turkey-syria-mercenaries-head-niger-earn-cash\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like hundreds of other pro-Turkish fighters, Omar left northern Syria for mineral-rich Niger last year,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":160257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/160256-pro-turkey-syria-mercenaries-head-to-niger-to-earn-cash.jpg",1200,628,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/160256-pro-turkey-syria-mercenaries-head-to-niger-to-earn-cash.jpg",150,79,false],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/160256-pro-turkey-syria-mercenaries-head-to-niger-to-earn-cash.jpg",300,157,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/160256-pro-turkey-syria-mercenaries-head-to-niger-to-earn-cash.jpg",640,335,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/160256-pro-turkey-syria-mercenaries-head-to-niger-to-earn-cash.jpg",640,335,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/160256-pro-turkey-syria-mercenaries-head-to-niger-to-earn-cash.jpg",1200,628,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/160256-pro-turkey-syria-mercenaries-head-to-niger-to-earn-cash.jpg",1200,628,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/160256-pro-turkey-syria-mercenaries-head-to-niger-to-earn-cash.jpg",1024,536,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/160256-pro-turkey-syria-mercenaries-head-to-niger-to-earn-cash.jpg",825,432,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/160256-pro-turkey-syria-mercenaries-head-to-niger-to-earn-cash.jpg",590,309,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/160257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}