• Jihadism: Turkey captures Al Baghdadi's sister in northern Syria

A US citizen has been repatriated from Turkish soil this Monday morning. Ankara has announced that it is the first of a series of suspected jihadists who will be deported in the coming days. Turkey thus fulfills the promise, reiterated during the last month, of sending all foreign members of the Islamic State back to their countries of origin, whether their governments want it or not.

"In the morning hours, after completing the procedures at the Repatriation Center, the General Directorate of the Immigration Administration made the repatriation from Turkey of a foreign terrorist fighter from the United States," Interior spokesman Ismail Çatakli reported, according to the agency Turkish semi-official Anadolu. T urquia has not specified whether Washington has given its approval .

Çatakli has added that, in the next few hours, two more members of the Islamic State, one German and one Danish, will be equally repatriated, until three expulsions are completed this Monday. In addition, he said, the "travel plans" of seven other citizens of Germany, linked to the extremist armed organization, have been completed to forcefully return to their country of nationality this Thursday.

The Turkish authorities have also specified that they are also preparing to repatriate Dutch, French and Irish 'foreign terrorist fighters' captured in Syria, in the framework of the military operation Manantial de Paz, launched a month ago. "Turkey will extradite them at all costs," Çatakli stressed, defending a policy that faces Europe's passive stance.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said last Friday that 1,201 members of the Islamic State (IS) remain in Turkish prisons. In addition, he said that 287 fighters had been captured after fleeing Kurdish prisons during the military offensive, some 80 of which, it is estimated, come from European countries.

Turkey has strongly criticized the disinterest of European countries in calling for the extradition of those of their citizens who, after having traveled to the territories of the Islamic State pseudocaliphate - most accessing from Turkish soil - went to Turkish or Kurdish prisons. Turkey "is not a hotel for IS members," Interior Minister Süleiman Soylu had previously emphasized.

Consequently, Ankara had warned her European allies of her intention to repatriate her prisoners from the Islamic State even if their nationality had been revoked. This is the case of about 700 of the 1,200 European jihadists captured by the Kurds in Syria. A plan that can easily become a legal, diplomatic and political headache.

Some European countries have tried to extend their decisions on their nationals of the Islamic State as much as possible. With the rising rise of the extreme right, any request for extradition has been considered unpopular . Further, doubts about the possibility of obtaining sufficient evidence to judge the suspects, and fear of jihadist attacks in Europe have deterred its Executives.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

Know more

  • Turkey
  • Islamic State
  • Europe
  • Syria
  • U.S
  • Germany

Conflict Turkey says Spain has notified it that it will "not renew" its Patriot missile battery

Erdogan offensive in Syria "If I don't know how to fight, I will lock myself in my house and fly away, even if I go to hell"

Keys Resettle a million refugees and weaken the Kurds, the reasons for the Turkish incursion into Syria