Turkey to deport 82 Uzbek citizens, who used to be ISIS members

Photo: Hurriyet
Turkey will deport 959 members of the ISIS terrorist organization, which is currently in temporary detention centers. Hurriyet reports about it.
Reportedly, there are 82 Uzbek, 10 Kazakh, 23 Kyrgyz, 6 Turkmen and 99 Russian nationals among the people, who will be deported.
According to the publication, 147 of the 959 people in the temporary detention center are children. Many of them have lost their parents during the Syrian conflict.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said about 2,500 ISIS members are located in Turkish prisons. According to the head of the Interior Ministry Süleyman Soylu, Turkey is “not a hotel for ISIS members”. He promised to start deporting the militants, who had been held in prisons, to their home countries.
It should be recalled that on October 11 this year, 64 Uzbek children were returned from Iraq to Uzbekistan.
In May 2019, as part of a similar humanitarian operation, Uzbekistan repatriated 156 citizens from the Middle East conflict zones.
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