The troops caught 14 people intent on traveling to Syria to join ISIL, who has controlled a large swathe of Turkey’s neighbor
Fourteen people, including a Turk, who were en route to Syria to join the ranks of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL, were seized by the Turkish military, said the General Staff.
The foreigners and a Turkish national were entrapped in the Oguzeli district close to the southeastern province of Gaziantep on Feb.9, before they illegally travelled into Syria to joint the ISIL ranks, said the statement on the official site of Turkey's General Staff.
According to the statement, the foreigners were taken to the Gaziantep police department to be deported to their respective countries, after their testimony was heard by a public prosecutor. The Turkish citizen was released following his testimony.
Another statement on the General Staff’s official site said that a Greek C-130 plane has violated Turkish airspace for two minutes in the Dilek peninsula, West of coastal province of İzmir.
