Turkey continued its blackmail to Europe via sending the IS fighter back to their countries

Turkey announced Saturday that it would send captured ISIS members back to their home countries, complaining about European inaction on the matter.

“That is not acceptable to us. It’s also irresponsible,” Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said of Europe leaving Turkey to deal with the prisoners alone.

“We will send the captured ISIS members to their countries,” he told reporters.

Turkey has captured some escaped ISIS members in northeastern Syria over the last month after it launched a military incursion there.

Ankara launched its offensive against the Kurdish People’s Protection Units following President Donald Trump’s abrupt withdrawal of 1,000 US troops from northern Syria in early October. The YPG helped the United States defeat ISIS in Syria.

Last week, Ankara and Moscow agreed to remove the Kurdish fighters to a depth of at least 30 km south of the border.

Under the deal, Turkish and Russian troops in armored vehicles held their first joint ground patrols in northeast Syria on Friday.

Two Dutch women and three children escaped a Syrian prison camp in Al Hol and reported to the Dutch embassy in the Turkish capital of Ankara with a request to return to the Netherlands, the government said in a letter to parliament on Thursday.

“The women and children are currently in Turkish detention, awaiting prosecution and/or deportation by the Turkish authorities”, the government wrote, NU.nl reports.

These are two women with dual nationality who left the Netherlands to go to Syria and are suspected of terrorist crimes. One woman has one child with her, the other has two. The children are three and four years old. The government said the five escaped the camp “some weeks ago”, so likely before the Turkish military offensive on northern Syria.

The Dutch government withdrew the Dutch nationality of one of the two women. She is Fatima H. from Tilburg, according to the newspaper. The measure still has to be reviewed by the court, but she can already not claim consular assistance from the Netherlands.

“With regard to the other woman, the withdrawal of Dutch nationality is not an option at the moment”, the government said. She will likely be sent back to the Netherlands under guard for trial.

On a different note, the Dutch National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism (NCTV) warned the government last year that it is safer to repatriate the women and their children.

The NCTV noted that the children may pose a more serious threat to Dutch national security if they are not brought back now and grow up to be radicalized.

The issue of repatriating citizens who fought for Daesh in Syria remains to be a divisive problem in Europe, with many countries refusing to accept the terrorists.