Turkey has expelled 8,585 foreign terrorists since 2011

Source: CCTV news client

According to Turkey's Anadolu News Agency reported on October 30, turkey's ministry of the interior issued a statement saying that in order to maintain national security, since 2011, Turkey has expelled 8,585 foreign terrorists.

A statement issued by the Turkish Interior Ministry said that since the outbreak of civil war in Syria in 2011, many foreign terrorists have tried to participate in terrorist organizations such as the Islamic State and the PKK through Turkey, and the expulsion and repatriation of foreign terrorists by turkey has been ongoing. Since 2011, 8,585 terrorists have been deported from 102 different countries. Judging from the nationality of the deported terrorists, a large number of terrorists have been deported to EU countries, the statement said. Since 2011, 44 U.S. nationals and 1,075 nationals of EU member states have been deported. Among them, 126 terrorists from 12 EU countries in 2019 and 95 terrorists from 8 EU countries were repatriated in 2020. Within 10 months of this year, 61 foreign terrorists from the EU-8 countries were deported. In addition, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, Sweden, Romania and the United Kingdom rank in the top 8 in terms of the nationality of foreign terrorists repatriated in the past three years. (Reporter Yan Wei)