The former mufti, now deputy and chairman of the Justice and Reconciliation Party, Muamer Zukorlic appealed to the Serbian authorities to release 11 citizens of Serbia – women and children – from the camp in the north of Syria under the control of the Kurds.
All of them come from Sandzak – a territory in the south of Serbia with a large percentage of the Muslim population. Most likely, we are talking about the wives and children of terrorists who went to fight in Syria and Iraq on the side of the “Islamic state”, and were recruited in Sandzak, Bosnia or in the countries of the Western Europe.
Zukorlic, however, doesn’t specify where he got this information.
Zukorlic adds that Serbia needs the help of Turkey for the liberation of its citizens, since the camp is located on the territories of Syria, Iraq and Turkey converge.
The official Belgrade has not yet responded to this request.
According to the Belgrade newspaper Vecherniye Novosti, from 30 to 70 people from Sandzak were fighting in Syria and Iraq. About 10 of them died, and the rest returned to Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria and Germany. Some have remained and are now fighting in Ghouta, Idlib and the environs of Damascus. Many perished at the onset of the Syrian army and Russian air strikes, the survivors were separated from their families.