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Thursday, August 15, 2019

How Turkey deals with returning Islamic State fighters - Young, evicted and back

How Turkey deals with returning Islamic State fighters
A mixed picture

Print edition | Europe
Aug 17th 2019 | ISTANBUL
Suheyla remembers the day clearly. She had invited her children for dinner and was preparing her youngest son’s favourite stew. He never showed up. Neither did her four daughters. When none of them picked up the phone, she and her husband Lutfu understood what was happening. They rushed to a police station to ask the authorities to track down their children: they were headed south. A month later one of Suheyla’s daughters called. She and her siblings, the youngest 18 and the eldest 27, along with her brother’s wife and their infant son, had smuggled themselves into Syria and joined Islamic State (is).

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