Sorry to say it, but those kids look like the kind of conscripts that got chewed up years ago by Chechen irregulars and the Turks are several classes above that.
Are those the actual troops, or merely a photo included in the story to make it more appealing to readers?
Not that it makes a huge difference.
Just asking. I don’t see an actual credit for what the photo is of, and I don’t recognize the magazine.
I noticed how young those troops look but then I look back to my basic training photo and I looked like that. That was about 40 years and 100 lbs ago.