‘US citizen terrorist to be repatriated from Turkey’ After being stuck along Turkey-Greece border, foreign national terrorist to be sent to US: Turkish Interior Ministry

November 14, 2019   

(Anadolu) The U.S. citizen terrorist will be repatriated to his home country after [being] in legal and literal limbo along the Turkey-Greece border, the Turkish Interior Ministry said on Thursday.

“The necessary legal procedures to send the foreign national terrorist to the U.S. have started after the U.S. guaranteed to let him in the country and issue his travel documents,” the ministry said in a statement.

A suspected Daesh/ISIS terrorist, Muhammad Darwis B., reportedly an American of Jordanian [descent], was deported by Turkey on Monday after being caught in Syria.

But when he proceeded from the Turkish border gate to the adjoining Greek gate, Greek officials refused to let him in — twice.

Read more.

Related Articles

Legal

Court hands Spanish national suspended sentence for terrorist-training offences The defendant was found to have taken pictures and videos of himself portraying a terrorist.

April 28, 2023   

(Yle) A Spanish national in his early 20s who lives in Finland was handed a four-month suspended sentence by Helsinki District Court after being found guilty of training to commit a terrorist crime. The court found that the man, who was placed […]

Government & Politics

Pentagon IG report says 50 Afghan evacuees brought to US had ‘potentially significant security concerns’ US agencies 'did not use all available data when vetting Afghan evacuees,' Pentagon watchdog finds

February 18, 2022 and   

(Fox) A Pentagon inspector general report released this week found that officials identified at least 50 Afghan evacuees who were brought to the United States in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan whose information indicated “potentially significant security concerns” — […]

Government & Politics

Biden’s move to expand refugee admissions is his most unpopular executive action so far Tracking of 28 executive actions puts refugee cap increase at bottom of list

February 10, 2021   

(Morning Consult) President Joe Biden’s first weeks in office have been marked by a customary series of executive actions that voters have largely embraced, with one notable exception: last week’s move to greatly expand the number of refugees allowed into the country. […]