Seems it's real, more and more and more reporting published on it.
Omar, who supports his mother and three siblings, said since leaving his home in August he receives a "very good" monthly salary of $1,500 for his work in the West African nation.
He hopes his earnings will help him start a small business and quit the battlefield, after years working as a fighter for a pro-Ankara faction.
We're sending the Turkmen and Arabs on a grand adventure to Africa to guard mines
with a monthly $1500 dollars payment for your families to survive only if you survive, that is if your gang leaders in the SNA don't steal it first (along with the $350 fee they take from your salary)
Also that business he wants to start. Will it be in Syria ? No... it'll be in Istanbul or Ankara.
He and two other pro-Ankara Syrian fighters who spoke to AFP in recent weeks said they had enlisted for work in Niger with the Sultan Murad faction, one of Turkey's most loyal proxies in northern Syria.
They said they had signed six-month contracts at the faction's headquarters with private firm SADAT International Defense Consultancy.
"SADAT officers came into the room and we signed the contract with them," said fighter Ahmed.
Another group "was sent to fight Boko Haram (jihadists) and another was sent to Lome" in neighbouring Togo, he said, without providing details about their mission.
His family collects his monthly salary, minus a $350 fee for his faction.
Also, surprisingly good money.
The father of three said he spent six months in Libya in 2020 earning more than $2,000 a month.
And of course, citizenship.
Basically, Syria policy is failed, we have too many military trained men on our border desperate to survive, smugglers, drugs, jihadism, extremism and so on. Border isn't protected, next best thing is to send them as mercenaries abroad.
I am always surprised that the loudest of turkmeneli voices don't complain at all that we send Turkmen to die on foreign battlefields unrelated to them, in order to feed their families.