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Parliament’s Human Rights Commission paid a visit to the Apaydın camp that hosts Syrian rebels in the southern province of Hatay. Opposition MHP Deputy Atilla Kaya said the camp could be providing logistical support for the rebels fighting in Syria, while Kerim Özkul, a deputy of the ruling AKP, denied claims that the camp serves as a training base.

With questions still lingering in the air about the exact nature of the Apaydın Syrian rebel camp in the southern province of Hatay following Foreign Minister Davutoğlu’s remarks, Abu Hussein, a commander of the Free Syrian Army (FSA,) spoke to bianet about what goes on in the camp.

After security forces denied opposition deputies access into the Apaydın Camp that hosts fighters of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) in the southern border province of Hatay, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu issued a statement defending the status of the camp as a forbidden zone.