TEHRAN (Iran News) – Turkey deported 11 French “foreign terrorist fighters” back to France on Monday, the Turkish interior ministry declared. “Eleven French citizens, as terrorist fighters, have been deported to their home country,” it said in a statement, AFP reported. Ankara has lambasted Western countries for refusing to take back their citizens who left […]
TEHRAN (Iran News) – Turkey deported 11 French “foreign terrorist fighters” back to France on Monday, the Turkish interior ministry declared.
“Eleven French citizens, as terrorist fighters, have been deported to their home country,” it said in a statement, AFP reported.
Ankara has lambasted Western countries for refusing to take back their citizens who left to join the Daesh group (ISIL or ISIS) in Syria and Iraq.
It says it has some 1,200 foreign Daesh members in custody.
The ministry said last week that 59 “foreign terrorists” have been deported to their home countries since Nov 11, when a new deportation push was started.
Of them, 26 were sent back to the United States and Europe.
“Turkey is no one’s open air prison or hotel,” said ministry spokesman Ismail Catakli, adding that Turkish authorities would deport all of the suspects.
Turkey’s government announced in November it would begin deporting some of the 1,200 suspected members of the Islamic State armed group in its custody to their home countries.
The ministry said last week 59 people had been deported since 11 November, including 26 to Europe and the United States.
A French diplomatic source told AFP Agency most of the 11 deportees were women.
- source : Tasnim, Irannews
