The sources stated, according to a leaked video from the college camp, that a "financial crisis" is behind the anger of the Syrian mercenaries, whose salaries were delayed by 5 months.

The back arrears of the Syrian mercenaries belonging to Turkey amounted to about 10 thousand dollars per person.

Over the course of months, Turkey transferred thousands of mercenaries to Libya, most of them Syrians, and used them to support the militias of the Government of National Accord, in its battles against the Libyan National Army forces in the west of the country in particular.

In early December 2020, the Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Libya Stephanie Williams estimated the number of foreign forces and mercenaries in Libya at 20,000, describing this matter as a "flagrant violation of Libyan sovereignty."