The MİT, Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization, issued a warning for the country’s police and security forces that Daesh militants, who have retreated from Syria’s border town of Kobani, have crossed into Turkey, Hurriyet Daily reported on Thursday.
The Daesh militants could be working on armed or bombing attacks in the Turkish cities of Ankara and Istanbul against the diplomatic missions of the countries involved in the US-led coalition against the terrorist group, according to MİT.
Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and People's Protection Units (YPG) retook the strategic town of Kobani, located on the border with Turkey, from Daesh on January 26, after more than 100 days of fierce fighting with them.
The Daesh terrorists, however, are still scattered in Kobani’s southeastern and southwestern countryside.
Earlier on February 3, the Turkish intelligence service warned that some 3,000 Daesh members from Syria and Iraq are currently in the region and aim to cross into Turkey, particularly to Hatay, Adana, Ankara and Istanbul.
The warning notice further claimed that some people aged between 17-25 have entered Turkey under the guise of refugees and are planning to travel to Europe through Bulgaria in order to attack anti-Daesh coalition member countries.
The fresh warning by the Turkish intelligence agency comes as the country has long been under fire for its perceived reluctance to crack down on militants passing through its territory to join Daesh in Syria.
Earlier in October, a reporter working for Britain’s Sky News obtained documents showing that the Turkish government has stamped passports of foreign militants seeking to cross the Turkey border into Syria to join the Daesh terrorists.
Passports from different countries were recovered in a village near Syria’s strategic town of Kobani across the Turkish border.
Meanwhile, a large number of foreign passports recovered from terrorists killed during Syrian army operations show that many of the Daesh militants in Syria had traveled from Libya, Chechnya, Turkey, Morocco, Egypt, Belgium and France.
Daesh, who controls swathes of land in Syria and Iraq, has been carrying out horrific acts of violence such as public decapitations and crucifixions against all communities such as Shias, Sunnis, Kurds and Christians.
