{"id":668427,"date":"2019-09-29T18:09:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T15:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/tr\/content\/?p=668427"},"modified":"2022-12-01T19:11:30","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T16:11:30","slug":"france-doesnt-want-us-europeans-who-joined-isis-face-iraqi-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2019\/09\/29\/france-doesnt-want-us-europeans-who-joined-isis-face-iraqi-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;France doesn&#8217;t want us&#8217; \u2014 Europeans who joined ISIS face Iraqi justice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Exclusive: &#8216;France doesn&#8217;t want us&#8217; \u2014 Europeans who joined ISIS face Iraqi justice<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">By&nbsp;Anelise Borges&nbsp; \u2022 last updated: 27\/09\/2019<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Exclusive: &#039;France doesn&#039;t want us&#039; \u2014 Europeans who joined ISIS face Iraqi justice\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kv1CyQRnVGw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>This week, Euronews brings you a series of exclusive reports on &#8220;Europe\u2019s Children of ISIS&#8221;: the victims \u2014 and heirs \u2014 of one of the most brutal terrorist organisations the world has ever seen. We will ask: &#8220;What does future hold for these children? And what does this quandary say about Europe?&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Months after the final collapse of the so-called Islamic State in the deserts of eastern Syria, tens-of-thousands of its fighters and those that lived within its so-called caliphate face an uncertain future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many are in the north-eastern Syrian region of Rojava, where Kurdish authorities hold 10,000 ISIS fighters, including 2,000 foreigners, and wish to see them tried in local courts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Read more: Euronews speaks to European children of IS being held in Syrian camps<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re asking for an international tribunal. Why should these courts be here? Because ISIS fighters&#8217; atrocities were committed here, and because the evidence, the proof, the witnesses, are all here,\u201d Abdulkarim Omar, co-chair of foreign relations in the Kurdish administration, told Euronews\u2019 Anelise Borges in northeastern Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8216;There will be consequences for France&#8217;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But certain countries, including France and Belgium, have reportedly negotiated with third nations the process of bringing their citizens to justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least 11 French nationals have been tried in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, says Nabil Boudi, a lawyer who represents European nationals held in Syria and Iraq for suspected links to ISIS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Boudi has warned that there could be consequences for France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf France\u2019s involvement in the transfer (of French prisoners from Syria to Iraq) is documented, proved, France will be condemned in international and European courts,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFrance is a signatory of international conventions notably against the death penalty within the context of the Council of Europe, which means it doesn\u2019t have the right to transfer its citizens to a country where they practice torture or sentence people to death.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Read more: Europe&#8217;s children of the so-called Islamic State<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, in northeastern Syria, Europeans who lived in the caliphate are concerned that they will be transferred to Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYes, they said they would send us to Iraq to give us&#8230; how do we say it? Life in prison,\u201d a French woman said told Euronews in the Ein Issa refugee camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFrance would have preferred that we were all dead.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Would these women have done anything differently if they could have foreseen their fate?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEverything,\u201d said one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou can ask anyone here and very few will tell you they are proud of what they did,&#8221; said another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: &#8216;France doesn&#8217;t want us&#8217; \u2014 Europeans who joined ISIS face Iraqi justice By&nbsp;Anelise Borges&nbsp; \u2022 last updated: 27\/09\/2019 This week, Euronews brings you a series of exclusive reports on &#8220;Europe\u2019s Children of ISIS&#8221;: the victims \u2014 and heirs \u2014 of one of the most brutal terrorist organisations the world has ever seen. 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