10 foreigners, including Tunisian who 'lied to police,' detained near Turkey's Syria border

Turkish security forces arrested 10 foreign nationals on April 7 for attempting to cross into Syria, Turkish officials have said.

The suspects from Switzerland, Kosovo, Syria, Tajikistan and Russia were seized in the southern Turkish province of Gaziantep, the Gaziantep Governor's Office said in a statement.

The Swiss suspect, named O.A.M.B, was charged with being a member of a terror organization.
The arrests came hours after the governor's office announced two Russian citizens believed to have been trying to join militants fighting in Syria had been deported.

In a separate incident, a Tunisian national, who went to the Turkish police in Gaziantep demanding his return to Tunisia, was arrested after the police learned he had fought alongside the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) for a year in Syria, Anadolu Agency reported.

Ayoub Fekih, 29, lied to the Turkish police about his activities in Syria and said he wanted to return to his country. Turkish police questioned him and opened an investigation into the case. Fekih then confessed that he passed into Syria via Turkey illegally on Feb. 18, 2014, and joined an ISIL training camp west of Aleppo. He was wounded in a fight and then decided to return to his country.

A local court in Gaziantep arrested Fekih on Feb. 9 on charges of "being a member of a terrorist organization" and he faces up to 10 years in jail.

Fekih said ISIL militants are given code names and trained to follow orders without any hesitation or questioning. 

"My code name was Ebu Usame during the trainings. I was told not to tell my real name to anyone and all militants communicate via their code names. Nobody questions the orders, but only complies with them," Fekih told police...