6 foreign nationals held near border with Syria: Turkey

By Zehra Aydin Turapoglu

ANKARA (AA) - Turkish security forces caught five Russian and one Libyan national, including a wanted Daesh/ISIS terrorist, near the border with Syria when they were trying to enter the country illegally, the National Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.

“Our border guards stationed in Hatay’s Narlica district caught six people including one Libyan and five Russian nationals who were attempting to illegally cross into Turkey from Syria,” the ministry said in a statement.

“One of the Russian nationals was a woman identified as a wanted DAESH [ISIS] member,” the statement added.

Turkey was one of the first countries to declare Daesh/ISIS a terror group in 2013.

The country has since been attacked by Daesh/ISIS terrorists multiple times. The terror group has carried out at least 10 suicide bombings, seven bomb attacks, and four armed attacks, killing 315 people and injuring hundreds more.

In response, Turkey launched anti-terror operations at home and abroad to prevent further attacks.