(Newshub) Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she’s still trying to get Australia to take responsibility for a New Zealand citizen suspected of being an Islamic State terrorist recently captured in Turkey.
Suhayra Aden, arrested by Turkish authorities near the border with Syria, was originally a dual citizen of New Zealand and Australia — but Australia renounced the 26-year-old’s citizenship, leaving her New Zealand’s problem.
The sticking point between the two nations is that she hasn’t lived in New Zealand since she was a young child, having spent her formative years in Australia before leaving for Syria when she was about 19.
Aden has two young children, which Ardern told Newshub Nation have always been the priority.
