- The woman had crossed illegally into Turkey and police found a fake passport in her home
- Thousands of militant families have fled the last Daesh bastion as militants have surrendered
ISTANBUL: Turkish police have arrested a Danish woman suspected of joining Daesh in Syria, a state news agency said on Wednesday.
The woman, who is originally from Lebanon, was arrested in the northeastern city of Bursa, Anadolu agency said. She had been sought by Interpol.
The agency said the woman, who it only identified by the initials AAM, had crossed illegally into Turkey and police found a fake passport in her home.
At the height of Daesh’s self-declared “caliphate,” when the militant group controlled parts of Iraq and Syria, Turkey was one of the principal routes for foreign fighters trying to join the militants.
Ankara has since cracked down on the frontier and has stepped up arrests and expulsions of suspected foreign Daesh fighters.
A last group of militants is still battling US-backed Syrian forces in the small area in northeastern Syria left since the collapse of its territory.
Thousands of militant families have fled the last Daesh bastion as militants have surrendered. Among them are the wives and children of foreign militants.