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Iraq
Two Azerbaijani citizens returned from Iraq
2024-10-08
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] Two people who were in camps in Iraq have been repatriated to Azerbaijan, the Foreign Ministry reported.

As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, Azerbaijan periodically organizes the return of its citizens from camps in Syria and Iraq. Thus, on June 4, six Azerbaijani citizens (a woman and five children), who were held in camps in Syria, were repatriated to their homeland.
They would have been an ISIS wife and children — possibly all hers, possibly some orphans.
Today, two Azerbaijani citizens were repatriated from Iraq to their homeland, and earlier, on September 18, six citizens who were in Syria, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry reported today.
But coming from Iraq they could be ISIS, Al Qaeda in Iraq, or something more exotic that was caught and imprisoned somewhere along the way. badanov's news sources really dislike saying, so unless one of our other sources is more forthcoming, this is all we know.
Before repatriation, the location, identity and Azerbaijani citizenship of these people were first established. Azerbaijani citizens in Syria were taken to Turkey, then representatives of the Azerbaijani authorities were sent to Turkey and Iraq, a preliminary medical and psychological examination of the repatriates was conducted, after which they arrived in Baku accompanied by delegations, the report, translated into Russian by a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, says.

The report does not specify the gender and age of the repatriates. It was not possible to get comments from the Foreign Ministry, a correspondent for the "Caucasian Knot" reported.

In recent years, about 470 people have been returned to Azerbaijan from Syria and Iraq, these are mainly family members (wives, children) of people who went to fight as part of illegal armed groups in conflict zones in the Middle East, an employee of the Azerbaijani government apparatus told a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent today.

Let us recall that on February 21, two women and five children who were in camps in Syria were returned to Azerbaijan. In October 2023, a woman and nine children were returned to Azerbaijan from Syrian camps, and in August of the same year - three women and 13 children.

At least 120 women from Azerbaijan remain in Iraq, Turan agency observer Tofig Turkel reported in June 2023. In November 2022, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry estimated the total number of its citizens repatriated from Syria and Iraq over the years of work at 409 people.

Posted by:badanov

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