The Turkish government has revealed it is planning to deport two Irish nationals found in Syria this week.
One of the Irish nationals referred to is understood to be Dundalk native Lisa Smith who went to Syria a few years ago to live in the Islamic State.
Lisa and her two-year-old daughter are thought to be somewhere close to the Turkish border, having escaped from a camp in north east Syria which held family members of Islamic State fighters.
Today, a Turkish interior Ministry spokesman was quoted by the State owned Anadolu news agency as saying that legal proceedings for 'two Irish nationalists caught in Syria were about to end' and that they would be deported soon.
However, senior officials at the Department of Foreign Affairs are not happy with the branding of our people and the refusal to deal properly with a problem on their home soil.
A source told the Irish Mirror: “Not only do we have the welfare of a two year old child at the centre of this, but we now very clearly have Turkey telling States like Ireland that our citizens are our problem.”
It’s believed that the two to be expelled will be former Irish soldier, Lisa Smith, and her two-year-old young toddler.
The State-run Anadolu news agency in Turkey this afternoon (MON) quoted a Turkish Interior Ministry spokesman as saying that two “two Irish nationals ” were about to be kicked out of the country.
