Turkey says US national sent home as Ankara begins repatriating captured IS fighters
A U.S. national who is a member of the Islamic State group has been deported home, a Turkish official said Monday, as Ankara began repatriating captured foreign IS fighters.
Two Irish nationals, two German nationals and 11 French nationals who were captured in Syria would also be transferred to their countries of origin soon, he added. Catakli stressed that Turkey is determined to return “the foreign terrorist fighters to their own countries.”Earlier, Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said that Turkey is not “a hotel” for IS militants and announced that the deportations would start as of Monday.
Soylu did not provide any numbers or further details on those who would be sent back. He previously said about 1,200 foreign IS fighters were in Turkish prisons and 287 members, including women and children, were re-captured during Turkey’s military offensive into northeast Syria last month.
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