Turkey says it has begun the repatriation of captured foreign ISIS militants, including one American who has already been returned to the US.
Yuliya Talmazan, Carlo Angerer, Nancy Ing and Charlene Gubash
LONDON — Turkey said on Monday that it has begun the repatriation of captured foreign Islamic State militants, including one American who has already been returned to the U.S. State-run Anadolu news agency quoted a spokesman for Turkey’s interior ministry as saying that three foreign ISIS fighters will be deported from the country on Monday.
Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu had warned last week that Ankara would begin sending back ISIS members to their home countries even if their citizenship has been revoked. Soylu said that Turkey is not"a hotel" for militants and announced that the deportations would start on Monday.01:18 “A U.S. citizen Daesh terrorist has been repatriated after the completion of legal procedures,” Ismail Catakli, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry,Several Western countries have stripped ISIS members of their nationalities over security concerns, making it impossible for them to go back.Sign Up
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