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Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein said Monday that Türkiye has agreed to take back Turkish citizens among thousands of Daesh terrorist group detainees transferred to Iraq from Syria after camps and prisons there were shut down in recent weeks, according to a Reuters report.
Hussein made the remarks during a meeting with U.S. envoy Tom Barrack, telling him that Iraq is also in talks with other countries on the repatriation of their nationals and has already reached an agreement with Türkiye, the report said.
Iraq received the detainees in an operation coordinated with the United States after Kurdish forces retreated and closed camps and prisons that had held Daesh suspects for nearly a decade.
Baghdad has said it will prosecute suspects under its own anti-terrorism laws, but it has repeatedly urged other countries to take responsibility for their citizens held among the detainees.
In a separate statement to the U.N. Human Rights Council, Hussein called on states worldwide to reclaim their nationals involved in terrorism.
“We would call the states across the world to recover their citizens who have been involved in terrorist acts so that they can be tried in their countries of origin,” he said.
At the height of its power between 2014 and 2017, Daesh controlled large parts of Syria and Iraq under a self-declared caliphate, ruling millions of people and drawing foreign fighters from around the world.
The group was defeated following military campaigns by regional governments and a U.S.-led coalition.
Syria formally joined the anti-Daesh coalition last November.
According to available information, the country’s new administration has worked to tighten security nationwide since the fall of the Bashar al-Assad government in late 2024.
The detainee transfer process began last month after Syrian government forces took control of areas where SDF terrorists had been holding thousands of suspects, who were previously detained in facilities operated by those forces.
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