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Turkey issues travel ban on 15,000 suspected foreign fighters

Xinhua, July 15, 2015 Adjust font size:

Turkey has put travel ban on 15,000 suspected foreigner fighters, and deported more than 1,500 others who aim to join the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria, Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tanju Bilgic said Wednesday.

More than 1,200 of those deported foreign fighters were determined at the risk analysis units located at the airports, the spokesperson told reporters at a press conference.

Turkey has beefed up security measures to prevent foreign fighters from crossing into Syria through Turkish territory amid Western countries' criticism that Ankara did not make its best to stem foreign fighters from joining ranks of the IS in Syria.

Ankara often calls on European countries to share more information on suspected foreign fighters and asks for stopping them before they travel to Turkey.

Anti-IS coalition forces formed a working group to stem flow of foreign fighters into Syria and Iraq at a meeting in the Turkish city of Istanbul on April. Endit