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A Look At Who Makes The Uniforms For Islamic State Fighters

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Products: This graphic shows the different uniforms made by the Turkish sweatshop employing boys as young as nine

Daily Mail: EXCLUSIVE - 'Child slaves' making uniforms for Isis: Inside the Turkish sweatshop where children as young as nine work 12 hours a day stitching combat gear used in battle by Islamic State

* Syrian refugee children forced to work in a military uniform sweatshop that sells camouflage to ISIS
* Unable to go to school and desperate for money on the Turkish border the boys work 12 hour days for £10
* Factory owner Abu Zakour has no problem selling uniforms to ISIS: 'It doesn’t matter where my customers are from'
* He also supplies Al Qaeda group Jabhat al-Nusra, Ahrar al-Sham and other rebel FSA fighters with military garb

Drawing slowly on his cheap cigarettes, 35-year-old Abu Zakour is hardened as he describes how he employs children as young as nine to stitch the uniforms that end up on the backs of frontline ISIS fighters.

The Syrian boys - and a couple of girls hidden upstairs - are paid a minimum of 40 Turkish lira (£10) a day to stitch, cut and measure out the camouflage material and help their older colleagues piece together the uniforms that get smuggled across the border to rebel groups.

‘My kids are in a school run by an NGO,’ he said, speaking exclusively to MailOnline from his office in the Turkish border town of Antakya. ‘These children could go too but their parents want them to earn money, so what can I do?’

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WNU Editor: 12 hour days to earn about $15 US .... to say that these are desperate people is an understatement.

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