Six foreigners, suspected of links to Daesh, were seized by the Turkish border patrol in the southeastern province of Gaziantep on Tuesday as they tried to enter Syria illegally.
The foreigners arrived at the checkpoint in a car and were apprehended after jumping out of the car to run away on foot in a remote neighborhood of the province's Oğuzeli district, Gaziantep governor's office said in a statement.
The statement did not disclose their nationality, but said they will be deported in line with the law on Foreigners and International Protection.
Daesh is an extremist group, regarded as a terrorist organization by Turkey and its allies in the West. The flow of foreign fighters joining the rank of Daesh was largely ignored by the international community in the Syrian conflict's early days in 2011 despite Turkey's warnings of the growing terror threat on the other side of its border.
