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Turkey wants to send Islamic State fighters and their families back to their countries of origin after capturing parts of northeast Syria from the Kurdish forces who have held the prisoners since toppling the so-called caliphate earlier this year.
Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu told reporters called the citizenship revocation an “unacceptable” attempt to subvert international law. “We’re not a hotel for ISIS members,” he said over the weekend.
Soylu told reporters on Monday, “We will send IS members we have in custody to their own countries, whether they have been stripped of their citizenship or not.”
Turkey’s cross-border incursion to fight the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces has sparked alarm that a resurgent ISIS will take advantage of the chaos. Those fears were stoked by a prison breaks and at least one car bombing in the initial days after the offensive began last month.
Turkey says it has captured hundreds of ISIS militants and their family members since entering Syria on Oct. 9. It has urged Western governments to take responsibility for their citizens who went to Syria and Iraq to wage jihad beginning in 2014. But most European nations do not want the fighters and some have even revoked citizenship for a handful of militants.
Source: al-Monitor.