HOLMES: A huge prisoner swap has been under way in Syria today, the government releasing more than 2,000 Syrian and Turkish prisoners. In return, 48 Iranians were released by rebels. Ivan Watson is covering developments, joins us now from Turkey. Ivan, you know, what's interesting here is the Iranians were saying these were religious pilgrims, but 48 for 2,000 would suggest otherwise.</s>IVAN WATSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's right. I mean, the Iranians were saying these were pilgrims going to a Shiite holy site in Damascus when they were captured by Syrian rebels last August. The rebels have been saying, no, in fact, some of these people were card-carrying members of the Iran's Revolutionary Guard corps. And a spokesman for the rebels, Michael, has told us that this prisoner swap is a big victory for the rebel Free Syrian Army. Take a listen.</s>LOUAI AL MIQDAD, FREE SYRIAN ARMY: It's a huge victory for us, it's a huge victory for the revolution and it's a huge victory for the Syrian people. We exchanged 2,130 hostages from the regime jail. Those people, they are our families, kids, women, normal people, civilian people.</s>WATSON: So, you can see the rebels are spinning this as their victory, even though it was basically a Turkish charity organization, Qatar and the Iranians that we believe who were involved in the negotiations in brokering this agreement. Some of the more than 2,100 Syrians who were released, Michael, at least 70 of them were with ...</s>HOLMES: We lost the signal there with Ivan, but very interesting, too, that Qatar and Turkey are involved there and whether they may or may not at some future point be involved in other negotiations in Syria. We shall wait and see. All right. She is just a teenager, forced to marry a 70-year-old man. A shocking story out of Saudi Arabia bringing to life a troubling trend. Stay with us. We will be right back.
Syria & Turkey Swap Prisoners