During its offensive, Turkey has captured 287 people linked to IS, most of them women and children
path from Dundalk, a town in Ireland halfway between Belfast and Dublin, to the murderous caliphate of Islamic State and back, has taken a few turns. A former soldier, Ms Smith converted to Islam and travelled to Syria in 2015 to live underrule. Detained by Kurdish fighters who helped bring down the caliphate, she escaped when Turkey launched an offensive against the Kurds in October, only to be captured by Turkish proxies.
Many others are expected to follow. Since the start of the invasion, Turkey has fast-tracked the deportations of foreignfighters and sympathisers captured in Syria or locked up in Turkey. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently warned he would send all of them packing. “These gates will open and thesemembers will continue to be sent,” he said on November 12th, addressing European countries. “Then you can take care of your own problem.
resurgence. The head of Iraq’s military intelligence branch recently said that some of the group’s main financiers had found refuge in southern Turkey after bribing their way through Kurdish-held territory. The deportations are not new. Turkey has already expatriated some 7,600 suspected fighters over the past several years, officials in Ankara say. But Mr Erdogan’s decision to speed up the process, as well as the Turkish invasion, have focused minds on the fate of the thousands of foreigners, ranging from hardened extremists to toddlers, who are packed into prisons and camps across the whole region.
Many European countries would prefer them to stay there. Some have stripped dozens of their nationals of citizenship. Governments fear the political backlash that allowing returns would provoke, not to mention the devastating electoral consequences of any attacks by those returning, says a recent report by the International Crisis Group . Collecting evidence and prosecuting them also poses a headache.
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